Alexis Ohanian Quotes

My two daughters live on Facebook, and social media is their mode of communication.

I think social media is a great tool if you use it the right way.

Young people know how to use these social networking tools, and they know how to use them effectively.

The framing of how we relate to each other within and across social media platforms will continue to become more sophisticated and nuanced in their expression of how we structure our relationships in our real world lives.

Social media is fine, depending on how you use it.

No sooner my kids leave their friends than they start texting them. And it's all in code in a language I totally don't understand.

I had no idea that social networking would be as prominent as it is today. And it's important to understand what that phenomenon is. If you text someone, you get an immediate response; if you e-mail them, you probably never hear from them.

Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways.

Since social networks gained popularity extremely rapidly, there had been a debate as to whether social media was a fad. There are countless pieces of evidence now proving the contrary, among them the explosion in Twitter growth and Facebook's public listing.

Social media companies are a gold rush today, and time will tell if they survive. I have no use for them and can't see why people waste time on them. I much prefer physical meeting with true friends, so have never used the service.

I am so appalled by the whole social media thing. I don't get it; it doesn't appeal to me. Neither does a computer or working on a laptop.

'The Facebook Era' articulated a radical vision for how social media would transform media, relationships, and influence, creating new opportunities for businesses in the process.

My generation was born to work with social media - it's a natural part of our communication with the world.

Social media has changed our lives forever. Some continue to reject social media, refusing to become one of the sheep, but you just can't avoid it.

If I've learned anything from social media, it's truly that the most irrelevant people always say the most absurd stuff.

I don't get Twitter or social media. I really don't understand it or read it. I see it as a distraction.

When I used to put videos on MySpace, there'd always be someone posting something nasty. To those people, I'd send friend requests, and invariably, they accepted them.

I've been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It's a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

I'm astonished at the speed of social media as it can get things done really fast.

It's not that Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter aren't really great mediums - let's be honest; technology allowing us to be able to contact people around the world is fantastic - but it's also so detrimental.

It's a new era with regard to social media. It's just something that we have to adapt to and accept.

In our society, social media's so big in our lives. It's all over the place.

I don't read social media.

On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle.

There is a big difference between tweeting to your friend about something that is happening and having a real personal relationship with people.