Yuri Milner Quotes

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

Twitter is incredibly useful. It's a great example of how the Internet is changing the way we engage with information and text. Above all else, this change in the nature of engagement is fascinating for me as a writer.

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.

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

The rise of Twitter defined 2011. Once every 5-7 years, a company emerges that changes not just the technology industry, but the world... after what some viewed as a rocky start, in 2011 Twitter broke through into the elite group of companies that profoundly shape our world.

Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so.

Facebook really has made the world a better place.

'The Facebook Era' articulated a radical vision for how social media would transform media, relationships, and influence, creating new opportunities for businesses in the process.

Real social situations are taking a back seat to social media.

I had been one of the earliest social media adopters, driven by a mix of curiosity and enthusiasm for the way in which it levels borders and connects people who couldn't really have connected otherwise.

I think social media has reinvigorated people's enthusiasm to be active and to engage.

It's a new era with regard to social media. It's just something that we have to adapt to and accept.

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

If I see what you're up to on Facebook but I don't see your updates on Flickr, I'll still care about Facebook.

In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

Social networking helps reach people easier and quicker.

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 had no idea that social networking would be as prominent as it is today. And it's important to understand what that phenomenon is. If you text someone, you get an immediate response; if you e-mail them, you probably never hear from them.

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

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.

Social media is just a platform. Twitter is a very simple and immediate broadcast platform. Facebook is a very personal, when it comes to friends and when it comes to fan pages, a little bit less but still somewhat personal way to communicate.

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

Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.

Social media is its own sort of thing: Twitter and Facebook have changed the way everyone perceives everything.

I'm still kinda old-school. We're twittering, and we're all twitterers. And we write tweets. The only thing I don't love is twits.