Franchesca Ramsey Quotes

I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.

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

That's the absurdity of Twitter. You can react without thinking now.

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.

There are 500 million people on Facebook, but what are they saying to each other? Not much.

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

I think at all social networks, be it Facebook or Twitter or whatever it is, there's an ecosystem that exist there. But there's also an ego system that exists there.

If I see what you're up to on Facebook but I don't see your updates on Flickr, I'll still care about Facebook.

Twitter's a funny one. I mean, it's good in some respects, but I can't stand it in other respects. You know there are too many opinions, people get opinions mixed up, and people get being rude mixed up with 'that's my opinion.'

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.

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.

Teenagers try to hide what's really going on in their communication online.

People worry about Twitter. Twitter is banal. It's 140-character messages. By definition, you can hardly say anything profound. On the other hand, we communicate. And, sometimes, we communicate about things that are important.

I'm still kinda old-school. We're twittering, and we're all twitterers. And we write tweets. The only thing I don't love is twits.

Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so.

This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it's easy to establish a dialogue.

I've noticed a lot of people are very bold and blustery on Twitter because it's easy to do that with the poison keyboard and a hundred and forty characters.

Twitter is a wonderful device. And I call it a device, but there are people that are addicted to it now. That's not good. You're really not very interesting using only so many letters.

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

YouTube is covered in comments that would be better expressed - and better spelled - via a simple thumbs-up or down.

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

I think social media is good for promotion, stuff like that, but people are so negative. People are too negative. If you read the comments, it's just too negative.

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