Douglas Coupland Quotes

The rise of Twitter defined 2011. Once every 5-7 years, a company emerges that changes not just the technology industry, but the world... after what some viewed as a rocky start, in 2011 Twitter broke through into the elite group of companies that profoundly shape our world.

I laugh at stuff like Snapchat thinking it can change the world.

I think the Internet is having an impact in very diverse ways anchored around amplifying voice, from enabling what I like to refer to as micro-activism.

The use of the Internet, the use of Twitter, the way protest movements developed... This is a different world.

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don't pretend that if Facebook didn't exist, that this wouldn't even be possible. Of course, it would have.

Like all technology, social media is neutral but is best put to work in the service of building a better world.

I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.

The Internet is far more engaging as an interactive medium than broadcast. Barriers to creating content are going away; they're almost gone. People are taking control of their entertainment. People are Tweeting, posting on Facebook and YouTube.

Social media is its own sort of thing: Twitter and Facebook have changed the way everyone perceives everything.

In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.

If there had been Twitter at the time of the French Revolution, they would have claimed that the French Revolution was caused by twitter.

Social media has changed our lives forever. Some continue to reject social media, refusing to become one of the sheep, but you just can't avoid it.

Social media is changing the world, and we're all here whitnessing it.

I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.

Twitter is more a cultural than a technological change.

The future of the world is in the palm of the tech community.

When I grew up, I grew up in the middle of nowhere. I wasn't really able to have access to people other than like, my family, so being able to just have that access to people and technology to really change the world is incredible.

I'm obsessed with reality TV anyway - I use my knowledge of that stuff to make jokes on Twitter and Facebook to get more people to sign up to be fans.

I do everything through Twitter, YouTube or the Internet somehow.

There's so much information accessible to everyone now because the Internet is so powerful; social media is so powerful.

Everything I know about Facebook makes me want to avoid it. Twitter has really improved my reading habits.

I've always wanted to connect with my viewers but there's only so much you can do through commenting and tweets.

I mainly use Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat. Those are my three.

We are all blessed to be on the Bravo train because it's a fantastic platform for meeting new people, getting our messages out there, and connecting with fans around the world.

I am part of a broad social movement. Ten years ago, it would have unimaginable for some random Dutch historian to go viral when talking about taxes. Yet here we are.