Jay Asher Quotes

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 had 60,000 friends on MySpace.

In this age of omniconnectedness, words like 'network,' 'community' and even 'friends' no longer mean what they used to. Networks don't exist on LinkedIn. A community is not something that happens on a blog or on Twitter. And a friend is more than someone whose online status you check.

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.

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

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

People have just assumed that... if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're not.

I usually try to stay off my phone and enjoy the world, but when I am on my phone, it's always for social media - to talk to my bros and my fans and my friends.

I never go on Facebook! I like, haven't confirmed anybody to be my friend on Facebook. I have lots of friends; I'm just really bad at Facebook.

I'm definitely not on Twitter. I do have a Facebook page and Facebook friends. It's a lot of fun, especially if you don't just start friending people you don't know.

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.

I'm not on any social media. I know people who have met on Twitter and through Facebook. I had a friend, someone liked her photos on Instagram, and they started direct messaging each other and went out on a date! That's so foreign to me.

If everybody is a Facebook friend, what is an actual friend?

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

I used to be on the Internet a lot, so all my friends on the Internet were from California.

We can't pretend that a Facebook friend is the same as a real friend you've shared times with together, both good times and difficult times.

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

I hear you younger people saying how many friends they have on the Internet. That's nonsense. That's not friends, that's acquaintances. The word 'friendship' has lost its significance.

I never really had a lot of friends where I lived. Online, you can have thousands of friends.

My grandchildren are on social media all the time, and they think they have friends. But it's not what I would've called a friend, ever.

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

I've got more friends than I've ever had in my life at the age of 39 - although given that I didn't have any friends until the age of 27, it doesn't say much - because I found the internet.

MySpace is a great way to keep in touch with friends who you don't care enough about to actually have a conversation with, why bother calling to say "how are you," when you can just surf their page and post an mpeg of a guy farting on his cat.

My social circle, my best friends, are all people that I met at UCB.

In the early days, I loved Facebook. I loved being able to keep tabs on hundreds of college classmates all at once, of being able to tag all my dorm mates in the photos we took on our garbage 7 megapixel cameras, of creeping on crushes, of keeping up with every person I met at a party or in a classroom without doing very much work.