Tina Brown Quotes

I know having a social media profile removed is a 21st century privileged problem - but it is the way a lot of us live. These profiles mimic our physical selves and a lot of the time are even more important. They are ways to connect with an audience, to start discussion, and to create change.

I don't tweet or do any other social media, so I don't know what's being said out there.

We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that.

I think that people post to social media to help shape their public identity.

Here is what I am not going to do: I am not going to go to a restaurant, take pictures of my food, download them, and call that a blog. That is beyond the pale. The Internet is such a bazaar of self-indulgences that I don't know why that particular one should bug me so much. But it really does.

It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.

Now, with social media, it's a whole different world, which is good and bad. Back when I was in college, when there was no Twitter, no one knew what Vera Wang looked like - there was no face to the brand.

If I was on Twitter, I'd probably get in trouble pretty quickly.

You don't have to be famous to have problems on social media. It affects everyone, and it's on there forever, and the things you say when you're 15 are not necessarily what you'd say when you're 25 or 35.

I don't play for social media.

Well, social media is a funny thing. It can be absolutely wonderful, and it can absolutely work against you.

With the rise of social media, it has given me an opportunity and a platform to have a voice as a blogger and as an activist, but it has also made me nervous that I might become a meme or a viral sensation, all without my consent.

Connecting with fans online can be the make or break or some artists, and I think that's a bit dangerous.

Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - what they're thinking about, what they're doing, what they're looking at - by paying attention to the small stray status messages that people are putting online. We're now able to stitch together these fantastic details and mental maps of what is going on in other people's lives.

Well it's very flattering to be on Twitter and have so many followers - but yes, it can be very unforgiving too. It is an invasion of privacy, but the choice is entirely mine.

When you say 'follow me on Twitter,' and you get 10 million people to follow you - you just leveraged your influence to add value to an app that you have no ownership in.

I think it's great when people accuse me, almost always falsely, of promoting conspiracy theories, because that shows how effective I am at messaging and how effectively I can use social media.

I thank God every day that there was no YouTube or Twitter when I was a teenager. I would have had a channel, and it would have been mortifying.

I don't need to be on any micro-blogging site, because people don't think about what they say there. At times, people abuse, and it is too harsh for me to handle.

It's a personal thing whether one wants to be on social media or not.

I've never made a comment on a message board in my life.

If I follow someone, and I don't like their Twitter feed, I unfollow them and often have a changed opinion of the person.

When I started performing, there wasn't Facebook and Social Media was not huge as it is now.

I've turned down players based on their Twitter handles. I've turned down players based on Twitter pictures.

Basically, Twitter can be your best friend or your worst enemy, and I try to make it my best friend and take it for what it is.