Internet Trends Quotes

OK, I wasn't really paying attention to YouTube in the year after it began. No one was. But its growth was remarkably rapid.

What's so interesting about the internet - I keep saying this - is the web has gotten worse over the last five years as opposed to better.

I love making fun of YouTubers.

I hope that memes jump out of our computers in the future.

What turns teenagers on more than the Internet these days? If you can get a language out there, the youngsters are much more likely to think it's cool.

I think we're going to see a move away from that, because young people - digital natives who spend their life on the Internet - get saturated. It's like a fashion trend, and becomes a sign of a lack of sophistication.

I was an early adopter of everything from Myspace to Twitter, and I think they're just fads, like CB radio.

I think a law clerk told me about this tumblr and also explained to me what Notorious RBG was a parody on. And now my grandchildren love it, and I try to keep abreast of the latest that's on the tumblr.

The crowd's a really powerful force on the Internet, and people finally understand how to harness that.

Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet.

Video for the Internet has become a testing ground for mediums that actually have revenue.

I'm interested in Internet cultures. I'm interested in what the teenagers who drive the Internet culture are passionate about. I follow their lead - they go to tumblr, I go to tumblr.

One of my friends started a company in 1997, seven years before Facebook, called SocialNet. And they had all these ideas, and you could be, like, a cat, and I'd be a dog on the Internet, and we'd have this virtual reality, and we would just not be ourselves. That didn't work because reality always works better than any fake version of it.

I started using the Internet heavily right around the time when memes started to become their own form of entertainment. I started to get into every side of the Internet around 13-ish.

I'm just not entirely sure how to gauge the faddiness of the Internet.

I discovered that funny animal pictures - memes - would get a lot of likes and shares.

Ultimately, in the Internet, openness has always won. I cannot imagine that the current competitive environment would reverse that.

'Catfish' is a great project that we have a blast doing, and it's really fun and at the zeitgeist in the world - certainly in the U.S., hopefully in the U.K. and I imagine the rest of the world. Being at the centre of this discussion and this subject has been really incredible as both a filmmaker and someone who likes to participate in pop culture.

All the trends show that email usage among the younger cohorts of Internet users is declining. Whether it will take five or 30 years for email to go extinct, I'm not sure.

If you ask me what I worry about every morning when I wake up, it's that I don't understand future mainstream Internet users' habits.

The internet is super smart. If you do something that is cool, that's actually worth people's time, then they'll adopt it. If you do something that's not cool and sucks, you can spend as many marketing dollars as you want, [they] just won't

I think part of the reason that I have been successful, though, despite maybe not always fitting my message into the pre-packaged formulas, is there is this whole other media ecology out there of the Internet and Instagram and memes and talk shows and comedy, and I'm pretty good at that.

I know there's a certain love and affection for the homemade on the Internet, and I'm all for that, too, and I appreciate it in alternative music, and I appreciate it in B-movies and in Sundance, independent films.

Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook or MySpace.

Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.