Instant Sharing Quotes

That's the great thing about social media: you can make one move, and everybody knows about it, and I kind of like that.

Living in the age of information and technology, everything gets out so easy and so, so quickly.

Back in the day, you could have a crap gig, and nobody would film you. Now, everybody's got an iPhone - you have a bad day, and it's going on the Internet.

Everybody has a smartphone; everyone is a reporter.

In the age of cellphone cameras, everybody thinks of themselves as a tracker.

In this age of Twitter and Snark every misstep gets posted online in twelve seconds.

The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.

The Internet has turned the world into one gigantic linked community, capable of instantly sharing vast amounts of incorrect information.

I love the immediacy of Instagram. My feed really is my train of thought. If I'm really excited about something, I'll just put it up.

Instagram is a media company. I think we're about visual media. I explain ourselves as a disruptive entertainment platform that enables communication through visual media. I don't think it's just photos. There's a reason we don't allow you to upload photos on the Web as albums. It's not about taking all these photos off your DSLR putting them into an album and sharing them with your family. It's not about that. It's about what are you up to right now out in the real world, how can you share that with everyone.

When I was a kid you didn't have Twitter or Instagram where as soon as you walk out of a building a photo of you is up within two minutes or a million people are commenting and saying nasty things. I found a different confidence because I realized that you can't base your self-worth on the opinions of others.

When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It's them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it.

What's interesting about Twitter is the unmediatedness of it, the directness of it. I'm on a train somewhere in New York and I send out a tweet. Somebody sitting at dinner in Bombay checks their phone and they see it.

I feel like Twitter was tailor-made for me, because I can do short spurts all day long. I loved my blog, but doing daily, then thrice weekly entries was really time consuming. 140 characters is perfect.

I love the efficiency of the Internet. If I come across something that I want to share right away, I can do it.

Smartphones are always in your pocket. They're about reactive capture.

When I make a lot of really good music with someone, I want to let the world hear it right now; unfiltered. I don't think it has to be more complicated than that.

I worry that if whatever pops into your head at any instant immediately goes online, you lose the crucial time for your thoughts to simmer and evolve and build up nuance, depth and empathy.

Everything is online these days. Even a small bit of information is immediately put up on Twitter or sent via WhatsApp.

In the old days, you could segment happily. You could put out one message to one segment of the audience, and one to another. That has now gone. You say something to one community and instantly, literally at a click, it's available to everybody. What it means is that if you're trying to craft a message, it's very difficult.