Rachel Sklar Quotes

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

Twitter is essential to me because I wake up and check it religiously. It's a way I communicate with my fan base.

My two daughters live on Facebook, and social media is their mode of communication.

It's amazing how directly you can connect with people via social media.

I get Twitter, and think it's a great way to keep it in touch, but I don't do it a lot. I hate reading when people tweet about what you're eating or who they are out with, but it's a nice way to keep in touch with people.

With clothing being designed that allows you to be hugged virtually, video conferencing becoming ever sharper, and our social and romantic lives increasingly taking place online, the gap between the physical and the virtual is getting ever smaller.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The connection between someone in Leeds and a comedian in Los Angeles would probably never happen if it weren't for MySpace, so it enables friendship and connection far more than it limits it.

E-mail is a whole new way of being friends with people: intimate but not, chatty but not, communicative but not; in short, friends but not. What a breakthrough. How did we ever live without it? I have more to say on this subject, but I have to answer an instant message from someone I almost know.

My kids are really good with social media; that's really an important dynamic in our relationship with our audience, and it's a great way to connect.

The Internet is especially adept at compressing humanity and making it easy to forget there are people behind tweets, posts, and memes.

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

It's super cool becoming friends with people from other countries because you can get their Snapchat and talk to them.

I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend.

Technology is synonymous for connection with other people.

Some people really like to get into Twitter, but it's not my thing.

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

I'm a Twitter addict. Jose Andres is a serial tweeter. It's funny to see which chefs have embraced it, and the different paths they take.

Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - what they're thinking about, what they're doing, what they're looking at - by paying attention to the small stray status messages that people are putting online.

A lot of people are living their lives online in much more public ways with Facebook and Twitter.