Yuri Milner Quotes

It's never the end game. Facebook is now a platform upon which all kinds of applications are being built it's definitely not it.

Think of social media as the Internet. I can't think of anyone betting against the Internet in 2012.

I really do love social media. I've always been crazy about - even like, remember AOL chat rooms? I always loved message boards, and I was always interacting on the computer.

The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data - has rapidly become a widespread reality.

The Internet is far more engaging as an interactive medium than broadcast. Barriers to creating content are going away; they're almost gone. People are taking control of their entertainment. People are Tweeting, posting on Facebook and YouTube.

From its humble origins in college dorm rooms, social media has quietly crept into the boardroom.

The rise of Twitter defined 2011. Once every 5-7 years, a company emerges that changes not just the technology industry, but the world... after what some viewed as a rocky start, in 2011 Twitter broke through into the elite group of companies that profoundly shape our world.

I laugh at stuff like Snapchat thinking it can change the world.

If I want to communicate with fans, usually I go on Twitter.

I completely understand social media as a method of promotion and digesting information, but it just seems like a colossal waste of time to me, and there's a million other ways I'd rather waste my time.

The Internet has created so many niche audiences that when millions or even thousands of people can be on the same page it's a truly special thing.

A lot of things have changed since the days of Flickr. Facebook has concentrated the sociality of the Internet within its blue borders, like a Walmart siphoning off the mom-and-pop shops that formerly comprised the Internet's gathering places. Communication, in the age of mobile dominance, has become, of necessity, shorter and snack-sized.

The Internet is crazy, and I love it!

In a few years, we might not still be into Instagram, but hopefully I'll be into the next thing and have fun do it.

The dawn of the 21st century marked the emergence of the social media age.

People said, 'MySpace is going to rule and dominate all Internet; all young people will live on MySpace.' Well, along comes Facebook. And, obviously, all the innovation that Apple is doing.

In many ways, Obama is America's first truly digital president. His 2008 campaign relied heavily on social media to lift him out of obscurity.

I'm there on all the social networking sites, as it plays an important role.

I come from a traditional media generation, you know? I'm like the last generation of that. And so the whole world has changed, ultimately. Coming into social media, Twitter, Facebook - I mean, the first social media I ever had was Tumblr.

You have social networking, and you can do things efficiently without the might of a big label.

Social media has allowed fans and celebrities to really engage and have an organic interaction with each other. Ever since I've had the opportunity to use social media, all the way back to the days of chat rooms, I found I was able to really understand what the fans wanted, communicate with them, and share my lifestyle.

UKIP's success would never have happened without the invention of YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.

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

I was in the same class as Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard. So we really experienced Facebook in a unique way. It launched our sophomore year, and we were also the first class where it became a recruiting tool.

It turns out that the most powerful use of technology is to connect people together socially.