Ben Rattray Quotes

Like all technology, social media is neutral but is best put to work in the service of building a better world.

The human race is already social, and the smartphone has everything needed to enable them to act on their social needs.

Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.

We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change?

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 hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don't pretend that if Facebook didn't exist, that this wouldn't even be possible. Of course, it would have.

Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community.

I realized that social media can be powerful force for good in the world and that acts of kindness can be scaled globally.

Even with all the negativeness of the whole social media thing, I still think it's leaps and bounds more positive.

In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.

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

Facebook is massive in scale and scope. Twitter is a public communication forum, but if I'm following you, you're not necessarily following me. LinkedIn is, simply, a professional network.

Facebook takes it as a core truth that sharing and connecting is a force that will improve the world.

I'm blessed to have a platform that allows me to speak to many at once. I recognize that I can make consciousness a tangible thing for young people.

Social media has changed our lives forever. Some continue to reject social media, refusing to become one of the sheep, but you just can't avoid it.

It turns out that the most powerful use of technology is to connect people together socially.

The vision that Islamabad United have for social issues, particularly with their Empowerment Programs is something that I feel strongly about, and look forward to contributing to.

In a few years, we might not still be into Instagram, but hopefully I'll be into the next thing and have fun do it.

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

I think the Internet is having an impact in very diverse ways anchored around amplifying voice, from enabling what I like to refer to as micro-activism.

I want society to feel they are part of a process of change.

Twitter and Tumblr and Facebook, it's so amazing because years ago, when I was growing up and watching movies, there was no way for us to interact with filmmakers at all. You could send a letter, and you'd never know if you were going to hear back or not.

We should be aware and constantly having conversations about the world because that's how you change it from the bigger standpoint rather than acutely trying to change things.

The Internet is the vehicle we're driving to share our visuals, outrage, and ideas around the world.

The sole forms of social interaction I was aware of as a kid involved a jungle gym and a sticker book. It was only in high school that ICQ - a prehistoric form of instant messaging - was first incorporated into my cultural vocabulary.