Ryan Holmes Quotes

My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.

People thought I was an idiot, but I saw social networks were going to be more important, and it turned out to be true.

I tweet early in the morning when I wake up or late at night just to let you know that I have a show or what's on my mind, and that's it. I hate Snapchat and all of that. It's making kids so stupid.

Somewhere along the way, when we were building social media products, we forgot the reason we like to communicate with our friends is because it's fun.

We're becoming slaves to our social networks - and that's not a bad thing. You like your favorite networks, so do you friends, and pretty soon you have market winners.

I think social media is very long-lasting. I just don't know the particular thing with Twitter.

I actually like social media, and I recognize what modern technology serves.

Who you follow on Twitter, I feel like, doesn't matter even a little bit.

I don't get Twitter or social media. I really don't understand it or read it. I see it as a distraction.

Without social media, I wouldn't have young girls messaging me from Australia or Mexico City or the Midlands, but I do wonder if I'd be on it if it wasn't part of my job.

Social networks are an incredible new tool which enables me to speak directly to large numbers of people. It is at the cutting edge of personal interaction around the world.

Russia is one of the places where significant presence of social networks are driven by domestic players right now.

We and others have done a bunch of work to show that if your real friends online say or do something, it affects you. But if your acquaintances online say or do something, it does not. People on average have about 106 Facebook friends, but only 5 or 6 real friends.

The reason people need advice on using social media is that they're a much more complex and nuanced way to communicate than a conversation or email.

Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard.

The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchange trivial information, these critics are being proven wrong time and again.

I personally never got the gist of Facebook and Twitter.

Facebook is such a basic utility. It's something that is such a part of peoples' lives, I think it's hard to imagine it going away.

I don't really use YouTube that much. I am a very Internet-oriented person, but I'm more of a Twitter freak - I'm always on Twitter. Or chatting with friends.

I'm interested in how the Internet spreads information.

Social networking inspires me a lot and how we are related and connected to each other.

I am a huge consumer of social networks, and I utilize Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. I'm interested and am learning more about Tumblr and other visually dominant sites.

In reality, quitting Facebook is much more problematic than the company's executives suggest, if only because users cannot extract all the intangible social capital they have generated on the site and export it elsewhere.

Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks.

I started hearing Snapchat in the same context as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. That got me curious.