Bob Parsons Quotes

I'm always trying to respond to my Instagram direct messages, even if they're a little weird. I'll have a Q&A on Snapchat and talk to everyone.

I don't tweet. I prefer face-to-face communication and sometimes Instagram.

Social does not just equal Facebook. Social is how people interact anywhere.

I am a member of the human race. There's a certain irony about the cyberworld. You don't know who is talking to you, if it's a machine, so I tend to try to reach out to those fellow humans.

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

I get up in the morning, do my e-mail, I check my e-mails all day. I'll go online and I'll buy my books at Amazon.com, but I don't want to buy all of them because I want to go to Duttons and I want to buy books from another human being.

I do go online a lot.

What the Internet has done is made it easier to stay in touch with people, and social networking has helped me career-wise by helping me keep in touch with my fans.

Technology has given us access to the world and its sea of content, allowing us to never speak to another person if we don't want to.

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

I treat Twitter like I'm talking to my friends.

I love being on Twitter and interacting with different people. Also, I very dangerously love to go shopping online!

If I put down my tweeter machine for a minute, I actually can communicate with people. As an aside, astonishingly, I just started doing Twitter.

There will never be a replacement for that ongoing physical contact. But I don't think blogging is meant to replace the face-to-face of friendships and meetings. Blogging is a way to keep in touch with a larger group of people on an ongoing basis, in a more efficient way.

I had no idea that social networking would be as prominent as it is today. And it's important to understand what that phenomenon is. If you text someone, you get an immediate response; if you e-mail them, you probably never hear from them.

Social media is not the same in 2013 as it was in 2003 - or even 2008 or 2011. You didn't carry around AOL chat in your pocket or look at it when you were in class.

Even the most brilliant accomplishments on the Internet are essentially cold. Google has changed the world, but you don't snuggle up to it. YouTube is a giant carnival, filled with freaks and mountebanks, a place to gawk and laugh and get bored. Certainly not a place to feel anything.

I avoid Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, and if I need to communicate with someone, I email direct.

If you use it intelligently, Twitter can be a form of engineered serendipity.

I love the Internet; I'm on it all the time.

I'm still kinda old-school. We're twittering, and we're all twitterers. And we write tweets. The only thing I don't love is twits.

I like connecting with people through technology.

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

We all know how the Internet has changed the lives of consumers: it's changed how we communicate, how we shop, how we meet people. It's changed things for businesses too.

Communications is at the heart of e-commerce and community.