Curt Smith Quotes

The connection between someone in Leeds and a comedian in Los Angeles would probably never happen if it weren't for MySpace, so it enables friendship and connection far more than it limits it.

I'm a MySpace person.

I had 60,000 friends on MySpace.

The thing I love about Myspace is it's a safe place where I can talk to fans every day.

Founded in August 2003, MySpace would go on to be the most-visited social networking site in the world from 2005 until early 2008.

From activism to socialising to starting new bands, 99% of everything that happens on MySpace is fun and positive. But with that many people, there's going to be a few bad apples, which presents challenges.

Myspace was always a bit edgy. People identified it with edginess and music.

I started a MySpace teen lit discussion group and invited people to join.

Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world.

MySpace is like a bar, Facebook is like the BBQ you have in your back yard with friends and family, play games, share pictures. Facebook is much better for sharing than MySpace. LinkedIn is the office, how you stay up to date, solve professional problems.

A lot of people have put their lives online and are using MySpace to manage their social lives.

I love MySpace; it's done an amazing job for me and it's been insane over the past couple of weeks, but I'm not a poster girl for them.

I joined MySpace in September 2003. At that time no one was on there at all. I felt like a loser while all the cool kids were at some other school. So I mass e-mailed between 30,000 and 50,000 people and told them to come over. Everybody joined overnight.

Almost all the things you can do online can be enhanced by the social structure of MySpace.

MySpace is the site I wanted to be on.

The idea was that if it was a cool thing to do online, you should be able to do it on MySpace.

We want MySpace users to connect with celebrities in the same way that they do with musicians.

MySpace was so punk.

I've always thought MySpace sounds like a new estate agency in central London run by two men who favour large-lapel suits and goatees.

I think social media is a great place to share ideas and to connect with other people.

The tenth social network, and limited only to college students with no money, also terrible. Myspace had won.

I actually remember very specifically the night that I launched Facebook at Harvard. I used to go out to get pizza with a friend who I did all my computer science homework with. And I remember talking to him and saying I am so happy we have this at Harvard because now our community can be connected but one day someone is going to build this for the world.

I'm not on Twitter. In theory, I really like Instagram. I think it's a warmer environment. I think, though conversations can erupt that aren't always friendly, you have an opportunity to jump in and redirect and even caution people against language and behavior that I personally object to.

In the beginning I remember when I would spend three hours a day on MySpace just trying to comment everyone back, and now, I spend a half hour a night on MySpace just putting up new stuff and answering people back and monitoring all the fan sites, and saying hi and thank you. I'm still way on top of it. I haven't grown out of it because it'll always be something that helped launch my career, and I'm going to keep maintaining it.

I don't know exactly what it is, but it looks like interconnected websites where people show their photos and write about everything going on in their lives, like whether they found a parking spot or what they ate for breakfast." "But why?" Josh asks.