George Saunders Quotes

Before blogs, it was all about physical presence. We used to send out videos and audiotapes to communicate. Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.

Email helps me keep in touch with my family. I wouldn't know what my extended family was doing every day if we weren't emailing each other.

A blog is neither a diary nor a journal. Many people think of blogging in relation to those two things, confessional or practical. It is neither but includes elements of both.

You can follow your favorite company or organization. You can also mix that in with your family and your social network and talk about all these interests in real time. That's the value, not the brand 'Twitter.' Twitter just provides the venue for it.

We want to open digg up to just about anyone and everyone that wants to express their interest in any type of news story or Web content.

Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time.

Twitter is the perfect complement to television. TV has always been social. You talk to the person you're sitting next to on the couch. You talk to the people you're - you know, at work with the next day around the proverbial water cooler.

I enjoy social media so much, and I love, love, love Twitter.

We're living in miraculous times where connections are made at the blink of an eye, the tap of a thumb, and the click of a mouse. We can never replace human interaction, but these simple actions can be powerful and meaningful to those we connect with.

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

The times in my life I've felt the most alive is when I'm having a connection with people. We need to hack cities in a way to bring back that community culture.

I love Instagram and Facebook.

I cannot write in isolation. I write with people around me.

I mainly use Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat. Those are my three.

I read blogs quite a bit.

Facebook was just John the Baptist. Twitter is the real deal.

I check out my MySpace. I'll go on sites to see what's funny on YouTube.

When I started in 2007, YouTube was just a fun hobby for others and myself.

People love to interact in real time, whether it is with each other or with content.

The first time I shared music was on Myspace. Then SoundCloud came along. The difference with SoundCloud is that people can comment on stuff, which was more frightening but also way more fun - especially if they liked it.

The best thing about YouTube is that anyone can do it, and that's exactly what I did.

I don't mind Twitter. I think it's a lot of nonsense, but at least, to me, Twitter is just more of a public forum to have conversation.

I think I was the last teenager to get WhatsApp.

I love Twitter. What a great tool to speak directly to people.

The social element has really transformed the gaming experience.