John McCain Quotes

I don't know how you can justify leaving any engagement behind in the social Web of 2011.

I'm very lucky because people send me a lot of stuff and post cool articles and pictures on my wall, which does make life a lot easier for me. When we were at 60,000 or 100,000 'likes,' I was still having to source the content myself, and I was constantly trolling the Internet, whereas now things are sent to me, which does make it a lot easier.

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.

One of the most delightful parts of being a writer is connecting with people via social media. I devote ten minutes out of every writing hour to Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and other sites. I don't use assistants for that. It's me and all of my friends, fans, readers, and colleagues on the crazyboat.

From its humble origins in college dorm rooms, social media has quietly crept into the boardroom.

I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.

Thanks to Twitter, Reddit, web media, and social media, we have the opportunity now to kind of blur that line between the people who produce the content, the people that watch it, and instead make it a conversation, make it a real community.

Not only do Imgurians get the opportunity to find the content that they love but also serve up their favorite content to others who visit their profiles.

I was incredibly impressed with HOTorNOT, because it was the first time that someone had designed a website where anyone could upload content that everyone else could view. That was a new concept because up until that point, it was always the people who owned the website who would provide the content.

I'm the worst tweeter ever. I don't know what I'm doing. I really don't.

I only tweet about food and silly things, but it's really fascinating because I get a lot of response on Twitter, and I'm always looking at the type of people who write me on there, and it is such a variety.

When I started Facebook from my dorm room in 2004, the idea that my roommates and I talked about all the time was a world that was more open.

Social media is just a platform. Twitter is a very simple and immediate broadcast platform. Facebook is a very personal, when it comes to friends and when it comes to fan pages, a little bit less but still somewhat personal way to communicate.

Without question, CEOs, executives and employees in companies in the United States and around the world have rallied to face the challenge of a social media marketplace.

I've always liked the format of YouTube, sharing things for free, which is a nice exchange between people.

I have a private Instagram and an official one, so I'm not opposed to social media.

Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community.

I have an amazing social-media wing man who manages my Facebook fan site. All my blogs get copied there.

I'm on the Facebook board now. Little did they know that I thought Facebook was really stupid when I first heard about it back in 2005.

I wrote 'The Facebook Era' because I felt like it needed to be written, and I was one of the people who might be qualified to do so. Specifically, my background is that I developed the first business application on Facebook.

Wildly successful sites such as Flickr, Twitter and Facebook offer genuinely portable social experiences, on and off the desktop. You don't even have to go to Facebook or Twitter to experience Facebook and Twitter content or to share third-party web content with your Twitter and Facebook friends.

I have a Facebook page for me and my friends and a Twitter page.

In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.

I hope Republicans keep right on pushing their Cro-Magnon agenda until they all lose. Then maybe we should save one of them for the Smithsonian: Republicanus Americanus—once roamed freely about North America … became extinct when they could not force a return to the Stone Age.

The Republican brand is in the trash can. If we were dog food, they would take us off the shelf.