Whitney Wolfe Herd Quotes

I truly believe that what we're seeing with online dating is very similar to what happened with the Myspace-Facebook era, where Myspace was once this place for online connecting for a very select group of young people. And then Facebook kind of hit at this moment where it was acceptable for everybody to do it.

That MySpace is the story of the year. Everyone but my mother is on it.

When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting - this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That's important. But it's not transformative.

In Harlem, Facebook was big. Kids would make Facebook 'families,' where they would change their last name on Facebook and have the same last name as their friends. I had this girl I was talking to, and she changed her last name to West, so I changed mine to West, too. It wasn't until later that I took the 't' off.

In a few years, we might not still be into Instagram, but hopefully I'll be into the next thing and have fun do it.

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

There isn't a way to depict the gay community without at least mentioning the existence of online dating apps like Grindr.

There were dozens of dating apps when Bumble came on the scene, but they weren't able to attract critical mass in a young professional group.

Online dating is cool but I think Myspace and Facebook is a little bit off key.

I've had my fair share of tweets, DMs, emails, Facebook Messages and friends trying to set me up with friends.

A lot of things have changed since the days of Flickr. Facebook has concentrated the sociality of the Internet within its blue borders, like a Walmart siphoning off the mom-and-pop shops that formerly comprised the Internet's gathering places. Communication, in the age of mobile dominance, has become, of necessity, shorter and snack-sized.

I was on Tumblr when I was 12 or 13. I was on YouTube, too. I had a channel and made music videos. It had 50,000 subscribers.

Hollywood is a lot like high school. Everyone was interested in what the head cheerleader was doing and what the captain of the football team was doing and if they were dating each other.

There are hundreds of millions of people on dating apps every day, but apparently, no such apps cater solely to sports fans.

When you're a young kid, you've burst onto the scene, everyone want sort be your friend, come out with you, and you don't actually realise who wants to be there with you and who wants to be your friend.

The sole forms of social interaction I was aware of as a kid involved a jungle gym and a sticker book. It was only in high school that ICQ - a prehistoric form of instant messaging - was first incorporated into my cultural vocabulary.

I don't have anyone to be reunited with. My whole reception class is on Facebook.

If you're on Tinder and you're really trying to look for love, that's going too far. You have to be yourself... and find love at the coffee shop, or in your own community.

The Internet has transformed the landscape of children's social lives, moving cliques from lunchrooms and lockers to live chats and online bulletin boards and intensifying their reach and power.

I take the time to understand my generation and what they want. Whether it's on Tumblr, Pinterest, or Twitter, I see what they are re-Vining or re-blogging and incorporate it into my YouTube channel.

People are not just going to bars and meeting people; they're connecting through social media.

We are millennials, and we love complaining more than any other generation.

It's a bit harder being on TV. I would be open to finding dates through Facebook or Instagram though, does that count? I do love flicking through profiles on my friend's dating apps though!

Yo, it's helped me so much. I've connected with so many people that I've never imagined that I would ever know personally. I'm team Internet, for sure.

When I left Tinder, I had no intention of getting back into the dating industry. What I ultimately wanted to do was start this contagious complimentary social network, where kindness was at the helm.