Zephyr Teachout Quotes

One thing we know for sure is that the Web is a collaborative medium unlike any we've ever had before. We see people working together, playing together, interacting in social settings using these media. We hope that will emerge as the new tool for education.

The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.

Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.

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

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.

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

What the Internet has done is made it easier to stay in touch with people, and social networking has helped me career-wise by helping me keep in touch with my fans.

You can have a real ongoing dialogue through social media that wasn't possible before.

I don't mind Twitter. I think it's a lot of nonsense, but at least, to me, Twitter is just more of a public forum to have conversation.

One of the things that technology has is a direct relationship with its users. We talk about newspapers. But the biggest newspapers in the world right now are Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram.

I think that Twitter is a useful reporting tool sometimes, but an utterly toxic swamp that nonetheless I engage in more than I probably should.

That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual.

I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.

Online is such an important platform... it's all one giant melting pot of talents. The times are changing. It's just art now. You can share your audiences with everyone, and it's exciting.

If I want to communicate with fans, usually I go on Twitter.

Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.

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

We no longer have to capture the 'real world' and recreate it online. We simply live and communicate at the same time.

From the very beginning, our driving passion has been simple: to create and foster a platform where people across the globe can not only meet and interact, but share music, videos, thoughts and ideas.

Twitter and those platforms just didn't feel natural to me.

I've always believed that you need to find interactive applications on the Internet.

I like Instagram - it's a good way to keep up with my friends without having to text or call all the time, and I really like Snapchat.

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

I'm nervous about our civic culture. I'm not sure the Internet is largely the cause of it. It's certainly the cause of careless writing. People who get used to blurbing things on the Internet are never going to be good writers.

I treat Twitter like I'm talking to my friends.