Simone Giertz Quotes

4chan is a framework of pictures and text. I've always been extremely hands-off with dictating what gets posted, past general categories and rules. I support providing a place to discuss anything, although I don't agree with everything that's posted.

In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.

I think it hurts blogs when they have to turn off their comments.

As I have said many times - I like Facebook. I think it is well built and run. It's cool. I think it is, in its next-step way, even visionary.

I think 4chan is going to stay the same.

That's one of my favorite things about Twitter: You can tweak your feed into a fabulous novelty engine. That's only one thing you can do with it, but it's one of the things I find most entertaining about it.

The idea of harnessing the intelligence of the readership has been lost in the quest for Facebook likes. For many, readers have become synonymous with hateful commenters. It's time for a renewed push to realize some of the original dreams of the web.

I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.

I still love my little home on YouTube, really.

My favorite app is, without a doubt, Instagram. It's such a fun way to share photos and life's captured moments with friends, family and fans.

4chan gets almost one million posts per day, hundreds of thousands of which are images.

Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It's a technology that brings people together.

Twitter was designed to be this system that you just scan for information that's important or useful to you and then walk away, and if you wanna take a break you take a break.

Reddit has attracted a lefty, libertarian audience since the beginning.

Imgur isn't about following a celebrity, and it's not about following a person in real life. You don't have to build up a massive following and use that to get your distribution.

I'm not good at Reddit; I don't go to the most popular parts.

Vine was like no other creative rush I ever had. In minutes, you could conceive an idea, shoot it and send it off to millions.

I love reading comments online.

My overall plan for Instagram is to continue to create a tool that will inspire people to use their visual voice.

YouTube is an amazing platform to talk about social issues because it gives people the ability to tell their own stories and reach audience around the world who may otherwise never be exposed to these people and conversations.

Twitter is a cesspool but I find I can ignore most of the cess most of the time.

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.

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.

There's always going to be a tradeoff between trolling and anonymity, and I guess that's the way life will be. And you can manage it, but you can't cure it.

The Internet and Twitter and all these things are very powerful, but it also means sometimes that instead of having a dialogue we just start calling folks - calling each other names. And that's true on the left or the right.