Anna Todd Quotes

Social media gives one a family to share one's life with.

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

Remember all of the 'me too' social networks built just to have a social feature Facebook and MySpace didn't have? I built one for political discussion called Essembly. It enabled unique and potentially transformative social interactions, but only 20,000 people ever used it.

I grew up with a computer, and many of my friends were people I met online.

The Internet has introduced me to some of my closest friends.

Yo, it's helped me so much. I've connected with so many people that I've never imagined that I would ever know personally. I'm team Internet, for sure.

No one even has to leave their computer to find cool and interesting people to hang out with. Everyone is online in some form.

Basically, Twitter can be your best friend or your worst enemy, and I try to make it my best friend and take it for what it is.

The thing I love about Myspace is it's a safe place where I can talk to fans every day.

I support any means to make real connections so long as that it does lead really quickly to real connections. It's the long-term online friendships and relationships that start to get a little hairy.

Well, I think the social networking is really interesting.

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

I started a MySpace teen lit discussion group and invited people to join.

Social media give me the privilege of learning about more people than I could meet in my whole life. Taken together, the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot, though.

Through the Internet, I've developed a strong social network - something I could never do if I had to keep my choice of peers within school grounds.

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

In this age of omniconnectedness, words like 'network,' 'community' and even 'friends' no longer mean what they used to. Networks don't exist on LinkedIn. A community is not something that happens on a blog or on Twitter. And a friend is more than someone whose online status you check.

I like connecting with people through technology.

On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another.

I think we're experiencing a resurgence of fantasy-type conventions in general because people want to get out around kindred spirits. Cons are a great place to meet people you've been tweeting and FB'ing with, and since you've had an online relationship with them, it's not like meeting for the first time.

MySpace gives our members the ability to reach such an incredible range of people and have direct contact with them. I'm not sure how that devalues friendship so much as it expands the range of potential friends you can have.

The connection between someone in Leeds and a comedian in Los Angeles would probably never happen if it weren't for MySpace, so it enables friendship and connection far more than it limits it.

Indeed, the spread of 'virtual' communities on the Internet speaks to a deep hunger to reach out to others.

I love connected culture.

Be in community, go out to dinner together, do things together. We lose that, we lose a lot. It's important to come together.