Art Alexakis Quotes

Founded in August 2003, MySpace would go on to be the most-visited social networking site in the world from 2005 until early 2008.

I have to say, I worry about Twitter. Not that it will survive - they don't need my blessing for that - but that it will stay the kind of open, community-enhancing-and-enabling site that made it flourish at the outset.

Twitter is essential to me because I wake up and check it religiously. It's a way I communicate with my fan base.

At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people's capacity to build and maintain relationships.

I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.

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

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

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

Almost all the things you can do online can be enhanced by the social structure of MySpace.

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.

In one sense, Facebook is very focused as an address book, as efficient communication. It's like e-mail or like IM or something like that. And we do those things, too, but we do so much more. We try to focus on the whole world and all the things that people are interested in, rather than just people to people, or one to one communication.

The idea was that if it was a cool thing to do online, you should be able to do it on MySpace.

I had 60,000 friends on MySpace.

The great thing about Twitter is, you get a lot back, and I read through a lot, and I want my fans to know that I do read a lot, and it's why I do respond or retweet clever posts, and I'm constantly amazed by the cleverness of people on Twitter.

I love Twitter, you know? I try to read everything I can on Twitter. You get so much nice feedback about stuff, you know you just put out a sentence and everybody laughs or everybody's just sending something back. It's amazing. Same with Facebook, you know? I'm a lot on Facebook and it's just - it's just amazing. And YouTube, of course, as well.

Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction.

I love Twitter. As an entertainer, it's a way to connect with the fans, and I think that's important.

Well, I think the social networking is really interesting.

From the day Facebook launched in 2004, the profile was the most critical page on the site.

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

Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.

I've gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time I've spent with them.

The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.

I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there's already so much narcissism flowing in this industry, I was like, 'Really, one more?' So I was against it at first. But I really love the idea of the direct connection - there's no middle man muddling it up.

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.