Jason Calacanis Quotes

I try to keep my social media really close to my personality. Then people can see exactly who I am and what I like to say and the message I want to bring.

I had a blog where I tried to be transparent while giving away nothing. I tweeted and Facebooked badly. As a writer, your 'voice' is your calling card, yet my voice was becoming indistinguishable from billions of other voices.

I've been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That's why I'm on social media a lot.

Social media should be a true sense of who you are.

For young people I like to talk about unleashing your integrity, because I tie it to social media and how careful we have to be about being consistent online with who we really are.

We all have personal brands and most of us have already left a digital footprint, whether we like it or not. Proper social media use highlights your strengths that may not shine through in an interview or application and gives the world a broader view of who you are. Use it wisely.

I just believe that whatever I post should be my content.

Journalists have sometimes looked to my Twitter account and quoted me from there, and that's fine because that's public domain. I know exactly what I'm doing when I post something on Twitter; in a way, it's saying, 'This is who I am, and I don't have anything to hide.'

I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.

The best advice for anyone trying to grow on social media is to be real and to be consistent. People will connect more with you if you stay true to yourself and who you are.

I have never been attracted to increasing my popularity or hireability by being on Instagram.

If I'm going to be using social media, it has to be in a genuine way.

Make an account, start uploading videos, and then be yourself; it's very cliche, but no one else can do it.

For me, on social media, I try as hard as I can to be myself.

I've used the Internet since I was in high school - it was my tool for self-promotion.

I write my own tweets.

Well, I have never, ever Googled myself.

There are loads of websites devoted to me.

Social media is changing the way we communicate and the way we are perceived, both positively and negatively. Every time you post a photo, or update your status, you are contributing to your own digital footprint and personal brand.

I tweet myself and do all the Facebook updates. It started off with me wondering whether I was showing off and I was very careful about what I wrote.

Twitter is the limit of me putting myself out there.

I started as a mommy blogger, and it's been really great.

I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is.

Creating a representation of yourself for the Internet stopped making sense when we were all on phones and connected everywhere.

There are some people whose Twitter feeds are works of art. They intuitively understand how much of themselves to put out there.