Erik Qualman Quotes

Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.

The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it's actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions... If people feel like they don't have control over how they're sharing things, then we're failing them.

The Web provides a very easy way to immediately grasp what's going on. It really offers the transparency, so you can see, especially with the search engine, how people are using Twitter at one glance. The phone doesn't allow for that.

I share more than most people probably do online.

Twitter provides a great amount of timely information, but we still need those people to fill out the rest of the story and the context.

When I'm on a plane, people know where I'm going before I even know where I'm going. People know where you had lunch yesterday, or who you had lunch with. So, trying to avoid sharing everything with everyone is my way of keeping something private in my life.

There have been misperceptions that we're trying to make all the information open on Facebook, and that's completely false. There are big buckets of information that we recommend that you share with only your friends privately. Then some of the more basic information, we recommend that that's visible to everyone.

Online is another way for all of us to reach people.

The individual has now risen to the level of a mini-government or mini-corporation. Via YouTube and Twitter, each of us is our own mini-network.

The fact that oversharing exists at all as a noteworthy notion is a relief, because I'm afraid that our younger generations could grow up having no idea what it even means to overshare.

I'm a YouTuber; I want to share my information. I want to share my tips and tricks and hacks and everything I possibly can with my audience because they've done so much for me.

Even though I have Twitter, I only use it to say, 'Oh, this is coming out.' I would never voice anything about me, really.

There's so much information accessible to everyone now because the Internet is so powerful; social media is so powerful.

On my posts, I would tell people, 'If you like this, give it a share.' If you go online and look at my videos, you might see where I have 80,000 likes, but 525,000 shares. That's where you gain more people as followers coming in. It took me a second to learn it all, but now that I have, it's been a blessing and a curse.

I knew I always wanted to be 50 percent social media and 50 percent traditional media. Because I believe the stars of the future will need both.

This whole thing about announcing stuff and sharing it online is a new phenomenon. Keeping things private is really, really easy and simple.

Don't have just anyone run your social media. I think it's insane when brands or celebrities relegate their social media to an intern or someone who does not know them well.

When we talk with policymakers about Facebook, it's about how users have control over information.

A digital director shouldn't be out front, but a campaign manager's job is to set a narrative.

My Internet presence was definitely bigger than the music. I'm so good at marketing, so once I knew I had them looking, I turned up with the music. I knew what I was doing - it was premeditated.

Facebook is who you used to know; Twitter is who you want to know and things you want to know more about.

Internet is a good and convenient device for us for easy communication. It has lots of value.

Google created the intent graph. Facebook created the social graph. We are creating the emotional graph.

Just to talk a moment about transparency, of course CIA does have a Twitter account.

When people laugh at social media it's because they don't understand how much work is involved. It's like creating any kind of content.