Nicholas A. Christakis Quotes

People have just assumed that... if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're not.

I never go on Facebook! I like, haven't confirmed anybody to be my friend on Facebook. I have lots of friends; I'm just really bad at Facebook.

Social networking inspires me a lot and how we are related and connected to each other.

In reality, quitting Facebook is much more problematic than the company's executives suggest, if only because users cannot extract all the intangible social capital they have generated on the site and export it elsewhere.

The power of social media is it forces necessary change.

We can't pretend that a Facebook friend is the same as a real friend you've shared times with together, both good times and difficult times.

My grandchildren are on social media all the time, and they think they have friends. But it's not what I would've called a friend, ever.

I don't want to get into extended conversations with people on MySpace, because there are friends I have extended conversations with every day.

Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.

Facebook is made up of people you've met, but not necessarily who are similar to you. I have 850 'friends,' and a lot are acquaintances, not friends. I don't really know them. If I've met someone one time, how should they be influencing my feed?

There is nothing wrong with Facebook in itself, except that it is not a very good tool to express the quality of your relationships.

Since social networks gained popularity extremely rapidly, there had been a debate as to whether social media was a fad. There are countless pieces of evidence now proving the contrary, among them the explosion in Twitter growth and Facebook's public listing.

I usually try to stay off my phone and enjoy the world, but when I am on my phone, it's always for social media - to talk to my bros and my fans and my friends.

The framing of how we relate to each other within and across social media platforms will continue to become more sophisticated and nuanced in their expression of how we structure our relationships in our real world lives.

The people you're friends with on Facebook or the people you follow on Twitter are trusted sources of information.

We never saw Google+ Circles or Facebook Lists as reflective of the way our friendships play out.

We're becoming slaves to our social networks - and that's not a bad thing. You like your favorite networks, so do you friends, and pretty soon you have market winners.

Obviously social media has had a massive impact on the fame game, but not in a positive way. But it can be for some.

In this age of omniconnectedness, words like 'network,' 'community' and even 'friends' no longer mean what they used to. Networks don't exist on LinkedIn. A community is not something that happens on a blog or on Twitter. And a friend is more than someone whose online status you check.

Traditional social media, in the view of our company, has become a bit repetitive. It doesn't feel very good to be marketed to by your friends. Snapchat is different because it says, look, friends aren't valuable to you just because they can get you into a cool party.

Caricatured as navel-gazers, Millennials are said to live for their 'likes' and status updates. But the young people I know often leverage social media in selfless ways.

I think social media is very long-lasting. I just don't know the particular thing with Twitter.

I'm definitely not on Twitter. I do have a Facebook page and Facebook friends. It's a lot of fun, especially if you don't just start friending people you don't know.

For most of our users, the vast majority of their MySpace friends are also offline friends. They're just connecting through a different medium when they're on MySpace.

No matter how you feel about social media, you can't deny the giant that is Facebook.