Jonah Peretti Quotes

E-mail is the most influential application ever to appear on a personal computer, and it remains sadly deficient.

I don't use e-mail or u-mail or whatever it's called.

I'm always fascinated when people say, "We found rude conversations people had via e-mail." Why are you e-mailing this stuff? It has your signature on it! It has a time stamp!

A lot of people use social media to share mundane things or for self-glorification. I try to use it to share interesting things with people.

Re-tweeting is a pretty common practice on Twitter, but on an average day, we see maybe one out of 20 posts is a re-tweet.

If I'm tweeting about being somewhere, and I haven't replied to somebody's email from three days ago, that's quite rude.

I don't do e-mails.

I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get.

I use Spam Arrest because of the amount of junk mail I get. Any legitimate person who wants to send me a message has to jump through hoops before they can be added to my opt-in list.

Prior to email, our private correspondence was secured by a government institution called the postal service. Today, we trust AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, or Gmail with our private utterances.

Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.

I get more spam than anyone I know.

I don't have email.

People go to the front page of BuzzFeed partly because they've seen a bunch of things in their stream, and they're like, 'Oh, I like this site. Why don't I go to the source?' I think that happens. But also people are going to look for something to share.

Email is a senior citizen. It's been around since at least the 1960s in one form or another. In the 1990s and early 2000s, there was a hot competition among consumer email services like Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and Gmail.

We're looking at dozens, sometimes hundreds of things every day in articles, videos, and we never look at them again. Even if we do like them, even if we tweet them out to all of our followers on Twitter, we don't return to it.

I don't think any of us are careful enough about emails. When you are writing an email, you should imagine yourself in an auditorium speaking to 5,000 people, with your mother and grandmother in the audience, and it is being broadcast on CNN.

What teens share online is dwarfed by what they consume. Pre-Internet, you had to hoof it to the grocery store to find a magazine with celebrity bodies - or at least filch your mother's copy from the bathroom. Now the pictures are as endless as they are available.

This Hillary Clinton scandal has to do with emails. All I get are emails for Canadian Viagra.

Does the e-mail say it's about 'enlargement' - that might be spam.

Smaller stuff tends to get shared more frequently.

E-mail is interesting. We can't live with it, and you can't live without it.

I actually quite like [social media]. It's spontaneous, you don't really have to commit to it and I enjoy the interaction. Also, I have never sworn on there, not once.

Social media is driving the culture, it drives peoples minds literally.

Somebody told me, “Twitter hates tabloids, but Twitter is constantly acting like a tabloid, repeating the mistakes of the things we’re hoping to better.” Twitter wanted to become a more egalitarian justice system, but instead it became a draconian one.