Natalie Portman Quotes

They're [social media] amazing tools to communicate information - especially about different causes or crises or movements.

I laugh at stuff like Snapchat thinking it can change the world.

Now I know we have the power to incite change through the Internet - keep sharing our stories, our dreams, and our struggles.

It's about using social media for social change: creating a community of advocates who can use their voices on behalf of the voiceless, or leverage their talents, skills, knowledge, and resources to put more children into classrooms, or pressure their elected representatives to get global education top of the agenda.

Social media and young people, art, music, all communications make this one of the most active times for activism. It will be a time of change.

Social media is changing the world, and we're all here whitnessing it.

It takes a different value system if you wish to change the world.

The use of the Internet, the use of Twitter, the way protest movements developed... This is a different world.

When you think about Twitter and you think what a dumb stupid throwaway technology, and then you have the Iranian elections and it actually saves the day - you can't prejudge technologies now because they have effects you may not have intended.

It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.

Social media is so influential now.

Today, it is clear that Internet organizing is vital to our future success.

Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well.

Social media has changed the world forever. We're not going to go backwards. People are not going to accept being poor, accept being excluded anymore.

As a writer and sometime activist who needs to promote my books and articles and occasionally rally people to one cause or another, I found Facebook fast and convenient. Though I never really used it to socialize, I figured it was OK to let other people do that, and I benefited from their behavior.

Once social media was introduced, it enabled a new way for people, particularly the younger generation, to connect with one another, based on common interests, goals and even values.

There's no how-to guide for how to change the world. But it's easy to get hung up by misconceptions about what it takes to make an impact.

People can care about changing the world. But what gets them to act is pressure and social reward.

I'm trying to change the world.

Digital activism did not spring immaculately out of Twitter and Facebook. It's been going on ever since blogs existed.

The viral power of online media has proven how fast creative ideas can be spread and adopted, using tools like cellphones, digital cameras, micro-credit, mobile banking, Facebook, and Twitter. A perfect example? The way the Green Movement in Iran caught fire thanks to social media.

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.

The role of social media is critical because it helps to spread cognitive dissonance by connecting thought leaders and activists to ordinary citizens rapidly expanding the network of people who become willing to take action.

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

Communicating a passionate response to world events is no longer limited to protests and rallies.