Media Sharing Quotes

Before the 21st century, stories became popular because people talked about them in other publications or shared magazine and newspaper clippings with friends.

Me, personally, I don't upload video to YouTube.

Starting the podcast was an experiment. I wouldn't say I was very private, but I was probably as private as the average person.

'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.

Twitter goes straight over my head, but I like the idea of posting pictures because they can say so much.

I rarely tweet unless I'm talking about 'The Bachelor.' I have a love/hate relationship with Instagram, though - it's like a rigid parent. It's much more restrictive with what can be posted, but you can write a full paragraph, post a video - it changes the game a little bit.

Thanks to Twitter, Reddit, web media, and social media, we have the opportunity now to kind of blur that line between the people who produce the content, the people that watch it, and instead make it a conversation, make it a real community.

Snapchat's the place where people are hearing and learning about culture.

Oh God, it's such a big world right now for artists. There are as many possibilities as you can have time for, getting your music out there with the internet, and Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook, and everything that you have, there is a way to spread the word. To me, the first thing you have to have is substance and content and real depth.

I've been going on Twitter every week going, 'Guys, you have to watch '2 Broke Girls' because it's incredible.

The things I'm good at are building communities, participatory media, places where people contribute things of their own making.

I think it really takes about 15-20 selfies that someone takes on their phone before they post the right one. There was this selfie that I took where I was wearing a white bathing suit, and it was after I had the baby, and it was a sexy pic. It took about 15 pictures to get the one that I posted. So you'll see all the ones that didn't make it. And you'll see all my selfies from the past years, including my first-ever selfie when I was four years old.

There is no future in which bits will be harder to copy than they are today ... Any business model that based on the idea that bits will be harder to copy is doomed.

I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a system like Napster evolving into something that allows users to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files.

To share a story is in part to take ownership of it, especially because you are often able to comment on a story that you are sharing on social media.

I never thought my life was worth vlogging.

Twitter is short-form, real-time, and text-based. It's built for instant alerts and rapid consumption. It is an ideal system for delivering sips of information from an abundant stream.

There's always going to be a place for YouTube.

The whole purpose of MixBit is to reuse the content within the system.

It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.

My first Vine I really just posted out of spontaneity.

It's insanely difficult to ask an audience to go somewhere other than YouTube to watch videos.

There is a certain line that I draw for myself, when it comes to what to post and what not to on social media.

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.

Of course Toronto might as well be Buffalo, because we get each other's TV.