Janet Mock Quotes

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

I'm definitely not on Twitter. I do have a Facebook page and Facebook friends. It's a lot of fun, especially if you don't just start friending people you don't know.

I never really had a lot of friends where I lived. Online, you can have thousands of friends.

I don't want to get into extended conversations with people on MySpace, because there are friends I have extended conversations with 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.

Twitter's been interesting. I'm kind of a tech geek, but I've never been a Facebook or Twitter guy. Surprisingly, I've really enjoyed Twitter because I get to connect with fans.

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.

For most of our users, the vast majority of their MySpace friends are also offline friends. They're just connecting through a different medium when they're on MySpace.

As for my friends, I do have friends that aren't in the entertainment world at all but do interact on social media. I think that's an innate human thing now, to connect via those channels.

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

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.

People are not just going to bars and meeting people; they're connecting through social media.

When I'm on Twitter, we just talk to people. I call all my Twitter followers my 'Twitter babies.'

I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research.

I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend.

I'm a MySpace person.

In a social context, digital technology introduces you to neighbours of the mind - people who are separated by distance, but close to you in thought and interest.

Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.

Anyone can use these sites - companies and colleges, teachers and students, young and old all make use of networking sites to connect with people electronically to share pictures, information, course work, and common interests.

I love social media and the ability to connect to new people through Twitter and Facebook and share my real time experiences with my mommy network.

There will never be a replacement for that ongoing physical contact. But I don't think blogging is meant to replace the face-to-face of friendships and meetings. Blogging is a way to keep in touch with a larger group of people on an ongoing basis, in a more efficient way.

Well, I think the social networking is really interesting.

There is nothing wrong with Facebook in itself, except that it is not a very good tool to express the quality of your relationships.

Social media is about friending someone so they'll invite you to a party or get you a job. If that's the work, Snapchat is the playground.

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