Kevin Systrom Quotes

Just so everyone knows, we're not a photo-sharing company. I don't see photos on 'Instagram' as art. They're much more about communication.

Twitter goes straight over my head, but I like the idea of posting pictures because they can say so much.

Snapchat really has to do with the way photographs have changed. Historically, photos have always been used to save really important memories: major life moments. But today... pictures are being used for talking.

Snapchat works because using a selfie is way easier than texting or tweeting. Stories should adapt to the medium and do so without cheapening the story.

I had never considered using a hashtag anywhere other than on Twitter, but now I'm inspired. Text messages have always seemed a little flat to me, so the murmuring Greek chorus of a hashtag might be a perfect way to liven them up and give them a bit of dimension.

All the trends show that email usage among the younger cohorts of Internet users is declining. Whether it will take five or 30 years for email to go extinct, I'm not sure.

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.

Video gives people a voice.

You know, kids text a lot today. It's phenomenal.

There are so many emoticons these days, I'm kind of old fashioned.

Tweeting? It's one of the silliest things ever.

If you were in Spain or Brazil, most of the population there is interacting with WhatsApp multiple times a day.

I don't send and receive messages on Snapchat; I never have. Stories is the only feature I use. I think of them becoming a more dynamic social network, and I think it's great.

Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate in an instant almost anywhere. Gone is the slow old letter - itself a monologue, a sort of considered performance of best self - and in its place is the e-mail, the text, the SMS, the tweet.

The way communication works is changing.

Snapchat's the place where people are hearing and learning about culture.

People put their voice everywhere. All through Instagram comments. As minuscule and kind of stupid as that is, at the same time, it's dope. People really feel like, 'I have to say something,' which is sometimes a little much, but like, 'Go ahead, man. Speak away.'

We don't even know our friends' phone numbers anymore.

I don't use Twitter to share my thoughts - I use it to make statements that are quite blunt and hopefully fun.

Sending a text and not having to talk takes the pressure off. You are always in control of digital conversations.

Digital communication is completely different from in-person, face-to-face conversations. One will give you surface insights, and the other really gives you depth.

Twitter is an extension of every dumb thought I have, firing it off - Instagram is a little more methodical.

Snapchat is a really intimate medium.

I think there's sort of an extra oomph with the younger people coming up. They're writing. They're communicating. They're sharing, and they are very much technology-driven.

The Internet now is completely full of memes, and it's interesting, the idea that instead of having a sign crotched on your door or a magnet on your fridge saying whatever cliches and bon mots, pictures laid out with some text are passed around and move really fast.