John Battelle Quotes

A lot of people use social media to share mundane things or for self-glorification. I try to use it to share interesting things with people.

The Tweets that I have written that are most popular are the ones that are the kind of universal girly concerns and observations.

I am a blogger - that is an amazing thing for me, because it captures a moment in time every day.

At its best, Purple Ronnie puts little thoughts out there, on very high-volume selling items, that people use to make very personal connections with one another. And I'm actually very proud of that.

For me, the most fascinating interface is Twitter. I have odd cosmic thoughts every day and I realized I could hold them to myself or share them with people who might be interested.

My favorite app is, without a doubt, Instagram. It's such a fun way to share photos and life's captured moments with friends, family and fans.

I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.

I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends.

People don't believe they've experienced the event unless they've taken a photograph.

I like my social media space to be somewhere very positive... I like to just be able to just share any images they see, or a piece of art or an item of clothing, and get to share that with the world.

Instagram is just something I like to do. I feel it's the best way to portray who you are.

I don't want awkward shows with people looking at their phones or tweeting. That's something you should do at home.

Basically, I feel like people have always taken photos of themselves. When I was in college, I had these Polaroid cameras my friends and I would have so much fun with. Today, we'd be taking those pictures on our phones. I think it's just part of culture today... Why not have fun with it?

The phenomena of taking photos and sharing them isn't new, but with Instagram being mobile, both have become cheaper and faster, producing the instant gratification of knowing how our shots look in our palms.

With so much of what I write, I'm just constantly wondering out loud, 'Do other people feel this way?'

With Instagram, you're captioning a moment. Twitter is the caption without the image. Even if it's there, the words come first.

I'm not really the type of person who is going to make heartfelt, 20-minute vlogs. That's just not really who I am.

When I joined Instagram, I began sharing my raw photos along with my raw and honest thoughts and feelings.

I like to speak to my family in person. I get a bad rap because I don't use my phone enough to talk to them, but I do love talking in person, and I don't mind FaceTime, but actually, like, calling and texting, not too big on that.

Twitter is half me trying to live in the world and half me processing and sharing the world. I share a lot, and some of that is to keep me honest.

I enjoy going on stage knowing that there's going to be that vulnerability and that transparency and hopefully things will be realized or accomplished or that confidence will be revealed. I think that's another element that people like about shows: in addition to hearing the songs that they love, I think there are some people who really get off on connecting with what's happening right now.

But coming to terms with one’s sorrow is one thing; sharing it with strangers is quite another.

If I am unhappy, I can write "damn it" in my personal diary, but I can't do that on a microblog so I might as well not start one.

Smaller stuff tends to get shared more frequently.

...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.