Om Malik Quotes

Snapchat is a really intimate medium.

Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers.

I don't send and receive messages on Snapchat; I never have. Stories is the only feature I use. I think of them becoming a more dynamic social network, and I think it's great.

With 'Running Scared,' I originally wanted to do a piece that was going to be about a couple, and the whole thing would be based on wall posts on Facebook. So the idea started there.

The way people communicate is changing, and no one knows this better than teens. We are using images to talk to each other, to communicate what we're doing, what we're thinking, and to tell stories.

There are 500 million people on Facebook, but what are they saying to each other? Not much.

Social media is a really cool way to tell your story to people who are interested in hearing it. It's not getting put through the filter of a television executive who's decided you're too old to justify the expenditure.

I really do love social media. I've always been crazy about - even like, remember AOL chat rooms? I always loved message boards, and I was always interacting on the computer.

It's amazing how directly you can connect with people via social media.

I'm pretty much on all social media, but Instagram is the coolest, and I use it the most because I take a lot of pictures and I like to post them, but I link them all to each one.

'Instagram' is a media company. I think we're about visual media. I explain ourselves as a disruptive entertainment platform that enables communication through visual media. I don't think it's just photos.

Snapchat's the place where people are hearing and learning about culture.

Twitter goes straight over my head, but I like the idea of posting pictures because they can say so much.

I love the notification system on Google+. If someone mentions you, you get notified via Gmail. That's very useful for someone like me.

I like Instagram - it's a good way to keep up with my friends without having to text or call all the time, and I really like Snapchat.

There are a lot of people in D.C. who have never been on Twitter or Facebook and don't get what's happening.

When we look at social media, we really look at it on a continuum, and the continuum is from accumulation to instant expression.

You can have a real ongoing dialogue through social media that wasn't possible before.

A lot has changed due to the rise of smartphones and the proliferation of social media: today, visual content is the language of our time.

If you get a WhatsApp message, you're probably going to open it. That's the interesting thing.

Twitter needs to become more of a platform on the web. If Twitter went away today, people would just turn to Facebook. If Facebook went away, people would start screaming - it's so universal.

In the black-and-white world of a girl in her late teens, I thought of things like Internet etiquette as obvious, rule-bound institutions. Facebook was Facebook, texts were texts, emails were emails, chats were chats, webcamming was webcamming, phone calls were phone calls.

I'm there on all the social networking sites, as it plays an important role.

I was an early adopter of everything from Myspace to Twitter, and I think they're just fads, like CB radio.

I've been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It's a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.