Evan Spiegel Quotes

I watch people, friends of mine, and see how they portray themselves online and I find interesting that it's kind of a hyper-real version of yourself, how you'd like to be seen, in a way.

The upside of social media is you can craft how you want people to see you in some way.

Now every person edits the story they tell about themselves, carefully ensuring what the world looks at - whether it's over Instagram, Twitter or Facebook.

There's more of me on Twitter than there is in real life.

I think social media is a slippery slope because while you're projecting something out to people, they also project back onto you what they want to see.

Everything I post online is curated.

How do you manage your online identity? It's something I talk about with my students all the time.

I think that people post to social media to help shape their public identity.

There are some people whose Twitter feeds are works of art. They intuitively understand how much of themselves to put out there.

Even if you don't think you filter your life on social media, by its very nature you're only showing part of yourself.

Social media is awesome because I can somewhat paint myself the way I want people to see me.

I just love social media. I love that you can create your own image of yourself.

When it comes to how I portray myself online, I'm trying to be as real as I can and show people every side of what I do and not just put up selfies online of me in full done-up make up and stuff.

Social media should be a true sense of who you are.

People have presences, both online and in real life. You can choose to show everything, meaning all sides of you, or you can choose to be selective.

America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves.

My office is on Twitter. I don't tweet myself - at least, not intentionally, but I probably should do.

Social media is changing the way we communicate and the way we are perceived, both positively and negatively. Every time you post a photo, or update your status, you are contributing to your own digital footprint and personal brand.

You have a certain identity that you present to the world on Facebook, and you have a certain identity that you present with the telephone, and they are different.

Creating a representation of yourself for the Internet stopped making sense when we were all on phones and connected everywhere.

It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.

Forget about someone's resume or how they present themselves at a party. Can they blog or not? The blog doesn't lie.

We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.

The Internet is a contest between people with the same name to be the person who dominates that online space.

There's definitely more to me offline than what you see online. Because what I show online is what I want to show to my followers... If I showed everything I did offline, it might not align with some of my other followers around the world.