Macy Gray Quotes

I think social media is a revolutionary phenomenon all in itself.

We have bred multiple generations of people who have not experienced knowing where you are the moment a news story broke, with that news story being great and grand and something that elevates society instead of diminishes it.

No one has looked at news from new atomic units of content, like a tweet on Twitter.

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

With the appearance of communications networks and interconnected computers, we got the world wide web, and it changed the lives of most people, I think.

I just think that a much more important part of the problem we face, which was evident 10 years ago and is even more evident now, is that the way we share information among ourselves as American citizens has been radically transformed. The line between news and entertainment has almost dissolved, where ratings now have a big impact on what kinds of stories are covered and not stories.

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

I think the Internet has changed the world.

Today we all are enjoying the fruits of the digital era. Millions of sources of information coming at us at lightning fast speed. That technology has also democratized the gathering and dissemination of news, allowing for 'citizen journalists' to make their mark, even usurping the role of mainstream news organizations at times.

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

The thought that so many people get their news from social media really is scary.

I am so inspired by new media.

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn't have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. 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.

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.

It's a whole new world out here. The online world is like a blackboard on which, when you write, the whole world can see - and I'm thrilled about this development. I want to make full use of it.

The notion of the Internet as a force of political and social revolution is not a new one. As far back as the early 1990s, in the early days of the World Wide Web, there were technologists and writers arguing forcefully that the Internet was destined to become the most important tool for cultural change in human history.

But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.

The world is changing, and the Internet is about to become the next broadcast network.

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

What we have found is that because of smartphones and access to media, and because everybody knows how everyone else lives, you have no idea where the next huge social movement is going to erupt.

Thanks to social media such as Facebook and Twitter, a far wider range of people take part in gathering, filtering and distributing news.

The minute you hear the word 'share,' you start thinking Twitter and Facebook. These are the places that people can very quickly share something they've just discovered.

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

It's never the end game. Facebook is now a platform upon which all kinds of applications are being built it's definitely not it.

I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened.