Paulo Coelho Quotes

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

I particularly like Facebook because it straddles the gap between seeing people and not seeing them.

Twitter is unspeakably irritating. Twitter stands for everything I oppose.

I've used Twitter now and again to try to figure something out; it's an amazing resource. But I think you have to use it judiciously: it's a self-selected group, so it's important not to start thinking of it as the whole world.

I have to say, I worry about Twitter. Not that it will survive - they don't need my blessing for that - but that it will stay the kind of open, community-enhancing-and-enabling site that made it flourish at the outset.

I'm so thankful for the Internet because actors and singers and performers now have a way to connect with their fans on a very personal level which I think is quite special.

The thing I love about Myspace is it's a safe place where I can talk to fans every day.

I know people go on about Twitter, but it is amazing. It's whatever you want it to be, and all the women got in there before the boys.

Founded in August 2003, MySpace would go on to be the most-visited social networking site in the world from 2005 until early 2008.

I like to communicate on my Instagram page with people: use it as a window to my world.

Between Twitter and Facebook and how close you can be with your fans and how close they can be to you these days is, I think, quite miraculous. It's like getting a greeting card every single day.

I think fans have an outlet. Through social media, you can hear them.

The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities.

Social media gives one a family to share one's life with.

Twitter isn't a social network, it's an information network.

As for my friends, I do have friends that aren't in the entertainment world at all but do interact on social media. I think that's an innate human thing now, to connect via those channels.

Instagram is my favorite! It's interactive and a fun way to stay connected to my friends, family and fans. I love posting photos from family trips, property visits, previews of my collections, everything!

Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.

The idea was that if it was a cool thing to do online, you should be able to do it on MySpace.

I love the interaction with people online, I love engaging with the fans.

The Internet has introduced me to some of my closest friends.

Social media is a scary world but I've also found it to be such a gift being able to connect with so many different humans in different countries.

When I'm on Twitter, we just talk to people. I call all my Twitter followers my 'Twitter babies.'

When I see Facebook, I feel like Howlin' Wolf must have felt when he first heard Elvis. 'They finally taught a white boy to do this.'

I don't think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it.