‘The more social media we have, the more we think we’re connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other.’ – JR

‘I think there should be regulations on social media to the degree that it negatively affects the public good.’ – Elon Musk

‘Everyone is comparing lives on social media and wants the perfect body, perfect image, perfect outfit, perfect life – we’re striving for this perfection, and it’s so unhealthy because there’s no such thing as perfection.’ – Emily Atack

‘Social media is reducing social barriers. It connects people on the strength of human values, not identities.’ – Narendra Modi

‘The great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to voiceless people.’ – Jon Ronson

‘The dark side of social media is that, within seconds, anything can be blown out of proportion and taken out of context. And it’s very difficult not to get swept up in it all.’ – Nicola Formichetti

‘Social media is both a dark and brilliant thing for mental health.’ – Fearne Cotton

‘We need to start identifying the triggers that aggravate mental health issues in our society – bullying, social media negativity and anxiety, gender based violence, substance abuse, stigma around issues such as maternal issues, etc., and we need to speak up about these more and get to the source of the problems.’ – Sanam Saeed

‘I have said that propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation have always been part of political warfare. Social media and other new platforms have given it a new life and reach through which the fake news phenomenon can reach everywhere.’ – Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

‘Social media is changing the way we communicate and the way we are perceived, both positively and negatively. Every time you post a photo, or update your status, you are contributing to your own digital footprint and personal brand.’ – Amy Jo Martin

‘Social media is a very, very powerful tool. It also gives power to tools.’ – Chris Young

‘There’s a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think, you just have to get more information – gets very dangerous.’ – Edward de Bono

‘There are things that people say that hurt my feelings or whatever, especially with social media right now. It can be the most amazing thing, and it can also be the most negative and detrimental thing.’ – Zendaya

‘It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.’ – Alexis Ohanian

‘Fake news is a big thing in the field of Social Media Journalism. Fake news can be as simple has spreading misinformation.or as dangerous as smearing hateful propaganda.’ – Fabrizio Moreira

‘Social media is an amazing tool, but it’s really the face-to-face interaction that makes a long-term impact.’ – Felicia Day

‘We get to live in a time that we get to use social media as a tool. It’s not just a face on a piece of paper, and that’s what makes you someone’s favorite model. We can have a very similar sense of humor as someone, and that’s why we’re their favorite model, or our personal style, off the runway, is why we’re their favorite.’ – Gigi Hadid

‘Social media is a double-edged sword. I’ve gotten in trouble for announcing, too soon, something that the network or the studio wanted to do, and it steals some of the thunder, so to speak.’ – Charisma Carpenter

‘Social media, unfortunately, just makes it a lot easier to be jealous. It sets up false expectations of reality, so it’s really easy to look at someone else’s life online and assume that they have everything going great for them and that their life is perfect.’ – Franchesca Ramsey

‘Your morning sets up the success of your day. So many people wake up and immediately check text messages, emails, and social media. I use my first hour awake for my morning routine of breakfast and meditation to prepare myself.’ – Caroline Ghosn

‘I get bullied a lot on social media, and it’s terrible.’ – JoJo Siwa

‘Technology and social media have brought power back to the people.’ – Mark McKinnon

‘Social media is something of a double-edged sword. At its best, social media offers unprecedented opportunities for marginalized people to speak and bring much needed attention to the issues they face. At its worst, social media also offers ‘everyone’ an unprecedented opportunity to share in collective outrage without reflection.’ – Roxane Gay

‘When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you’ve got to set those phones down.’ – Michelle Obama

‘The power of social media is it forces necessary change.’ – Erik Qualman

‘The influence of social media is unbelievable. It’s sad to see – it’s a fake life that some people live.’ – Virgil van Dijk

‘Social media is an advertisement for the superficial extroverted self.’ – Hozier

‘Using social media to hurt and destroy is callous, acted out by cowards hiding behind computers. My advice is to ignore negativity. Focus on the love around.’ – Martin Garrix

‘I got a lot of very bad hate on social media from some people from my school. I think people thought I changed because they saw me on TV. They weren’t close enough to know that I was still the same human being… When I walked at graduation, I got booed. It was kind of stupid.’ – Melanie Martinez

‘I would deactivate every single comment on any social media. You should be able to post what you want, say what you want, be what you want without anybody judging you.’ – Selena Gomez

‘Sometimes you need that time away to disconnect from social media.’ – Skai Jackson

‘In the good old days when there was no social media and no mobile phones, when you were forced to actually physically meet someone and you often mixed in the same social groups, there was a sense of accountability about things.’ – Ulrika Jonsson

‘Social media is the ultimate equalizer. It gives a voice and a platform to anyone willing to engage.’ – Amy Jo Martin

‘Our attention spans have been reduced by the immediate gratification provided by smartphones and social media.’ – Katherine Ryan

‘There are positive things that come of social media as well as negative.’ – Millie Bobby Brown

‘When I was in Japan on tour in 2010, I felt like I was 30 years into the future. I love technology and they are so advanced with their phones, computers, everything. I think they had the iPhone way before we did in the U.S. I love gadgets, games, social media and I try to stay ahead on all that stuff, but they get it all first.’ – Soulja Boy

‘Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.’ – Brene Brown

‘It’s not easy to run a social media account over a long period of time, but we love communicating with our fans every day and night.’ – RM

‘Social media is not a safe space.’ – Tarana Burke

‘I’m very active on social media and see the huge impact it has on engaging with fans and being able to have a voice.’ – Stephen Curry

‘I just constantly tell myself that I should be the only one to define my worth and what I’m capable of and how I perceive myself. And that I should never source that worth from other people, especially strangers on social media. They don’t know who I am, the length of my journey, who I am as a person.’ – Catriona Gray

‘Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that’s fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.’ – Bryan Adams

‘What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media… So we must try to use social media in a good way.’ – Malala Yousafzai

‘Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of creating a positive communication link among friends, family and professionals. It is a veritable battleground, where insults fly from the human quiver, damaging lives, destroying self-esteem and a person’s sense of self-worth.’ – Anthony Carmona

‘There’s so much negativity on social media, I don’t want to add to that.’ – Shawn Mendes

‘Some days, I’ll be very down and out, but you won’t be able to tell, really, because I don’t express that side of myself on social media. That’s the side of myself that I express through music.’ – Lil Peep

‘The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.’ – Bill Gates

‘You don’t need a corporation or a marketing company to brand you now: you can do it yourself. You can establish who you are with a social media following.’ – Ray Allen

‘Social media is just a platform. What some people decide to do with it results in something good or bad.’ – Rana Daggubati

‘Online I see people committing ‘social media suicide’ all the time by one of two ways. Firstly by responding to all criticism, meaning you’re never going to find time to complete important milestones of your own, and by responding to things that don’t warrant a response. This lends more credibility by driving traffic.’ – Tim Ferriss

‘I don’t do any social media. I’m not on Facebook or Twitter. I’m just not interested.’ – Shaun Evans

‘Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years.’ – Steven Spielberg

‘My cell phone is the number one way for me to communicate with my fans. I love the direct connection I can make via social media whether I am on the road or at home.’ – Cody Simpson

‘It’s a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don’t understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.’ – Amy Jo Martin

‘When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They’re playing the sprint. They’re not worried about lifetime value and retention. They’re worried about short-term goals.’ – Gary Vaynerchuk

‘It’s so funny how social media was just this fun thing, and now it’s this monster that consumes so many millennial lives.’ – Cazzie David

‘Chefs have always been leaders, but now, because of social media and the evolution of the chef identity, we have a voice that expands beyond cooking.’ – Roy Choi

‘I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.’ – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

‘I feel social media can be very distracting, unhealthy, and harmful to one’s self-confidence. I don’t even log on to it on my phone except when I post something on Instagram.’ – Rupi Kaur

‘I’m not a social media person; I don’t know what’s going on unless somebody tells me.’ – Tyler Perry

‘Social media is all about presenting the happiest, most positive version of yourself to the world. I’m here to say that we all have bad days and that it’s easy to feel isolated – but the truth is that beneath the sassy facade all girls suffer from the same insecurities.’ – Carrie Hope Fletcher

‘Social media has colonized what was once a sacred space occupied by emptiness: the space reserved for thought and creativity.’ – Mahershala Ali

‘Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you’re human.’ – Alain de Botton

‘A lot of straight and transgender boys get in touch with me through my website and social media. They tell me I’m inspirational and beautiful. It boosts my self-esteem.’ – Jazz Jennings

‘It’s easy to blame technology for what we perceive to be a vast disconnect between people. We’re so wrapped up in social media, texting, online dating – in many ways, we’re addicted to our devices.’ – Saroo Brierley

‘It is very unfair, and on social media you have all these keyboard warriors who just type something, and they never say it to my face. That’s very weak I find.’ – Max Verstappen

‘You’ve got to be very cognizant of the correlation between social media links and business because they don’t always correlate as highly as people would like.’ – Mark Cuban

‘The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.’ – Bill Nye

‘Don’t take social media seriously. Don’t buy into the hype.’ – Craig David

‘If it’s just me on stage telling stories for, like, an hour, that’s great. That’s fine. But like a sandcastle on the beach, it gets washed away at night. It’s so much more powerful if we can all share our narratives and doorstep moments and make us feel a little less alone. I’m just trying to use social media and new media as a way to capture that.’ – Hasan Minhaj

‘I’m not an active person on social media, really. I always get nervous tweeting anything. The moment I tweet, I get this plummeting sense of regret. I delete roughly 95 percent of my tweets immediately.’ – Charlotte Ritchie

‘There’s so much bullying, and there’s so much negativity on social media.’ – Jamie Chung

‘You know what’s dope about social media, the Internet, and stuff in general? It’s that you never really realized before how much love you get, and now you can see people around the country wearing your stuff or wearing your face.’ – Cam’ron

‘Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.’ – Daniel Goleman

‘Social media is such a key organizing and communication tool, and I’ve made a major commitment to use it as a way to make the legislative process as transparent as possible.’ – Chris Murphy

‘You can still say whatever you want to say on social media, but you have to be willing to stand by your words.’ – Candace Owens

‘I just think women should love themselves more than they do. Because I think – with all the social media stuff – we look at ourselves too much, and we just destroy ourselves when we’re way cooler than we know.’ – Meghan Trainor

‘Politically, we have seen the impact of social media organizing people through the Arab Spring.’ – Sharan Burrow

‘I’ve said before I think the best thing about social media is that it brings people together and the worst thing about social media is that it brings people together. You’re assuming that the people following you know what type of person you are and what type of humour you have.’ – Limmy

‘I am a huge advocate for anti-bullying in our youth. What I have seen with the rise of social media is that children are not facing bullying on a playground, they are facing it on their cell phones.’ – Whitney Wolfe Herd

‘Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, the Web or social media. They are much more proficient with technology than prior generations since they use it for all their school work, communication and entertainment.’ – Susan Wojcicki

‘Technology and communicating with people online or through a phone or through social media – it’s a false sense of intimacy and connection.’ – Carly Chaikin

‘Because of social media today, the youth have more power in their hands than they’ve ever had.’ – Aidan Gallagher

‘How can we be free when we are prisoners to social media, in a world without privacy? How can we be free when our every movement is tracked and every conversation is recorded and can easily be held against us? How exactly are we free if we are tethered to our cell phones?’ – Tom Green

‘Sometimes I worry that science communication is just preaching to the choir, speaking to the converted. Social media gives us an amazing opportunity to reach new people.’ – Elise Andrew

‘I’m not into social media. I’m like from another century.’ – Eva Green

‘From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it.’ – Dan Rather

‘I don’t check Twitter as much or tweet as often because, honestly, sometimes social media is draining and brings out all of the negative things going on.’ – Doja Cat

‘I really do love social media. I’ve always been crazy about – even like, remember AOL chat rooms? I always loved message boards, and I was always interacting on the computer.’ – Chrissy Teigen

‘I will always do music, and now – with where the world is going with social media and people dropping stuff for free and doing this and doing that – there’s no excuse.’ – Christina Milian

‘Being on Twitter and social media, you obviously get to see a lot more of what people are thinking of you and of your show.’ – Eliza Taylor

‘Young Egyptians, gazing through the windows of the Internet, have gained a keener sense than many of their elders of the freedoms and opportunities they lack. They have found in social media a way to interact and share ideas, bypassing, in virtual space, the restrictions placed on physical freedom of assembly.’ – Mohamed ElBaradei

‘There’s no social media or Googling yourself. You only have to do it once to learn never to do it again.’ – Colin Morgan

‘One of my main problems with Mox is that he didn’t use his popularity or social media with all of his followers and everything to put over places that he used to be at or people he used to run with.’ – Eddie Kingston

‘I’m inspired to post a lot of positive messages on my social media because, growing up, I felt as though I needed somebody that looked like me in the limelight or in entertainment to promote being different and promote accepting your differences.’ – Nia Jax

‘Social media can be very effective in creating movements. In the beginning, that is how I first got attention.’ – Greta Thunburg

‘Just as we teach our children how to ride a bike, we need to teach them how to navigate social media and make the right moves that will help them. The physical world is similar to the virtual world in many cases. It’s about being aware. We can prevent many debacles if we’re educated.’ – Amy Jo Martin

‘I would love to see less trolling and bullying on social media in 2021. If you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all.’ – Dorit Kemsley

‘My social media is very strict to my character and I’ve disabled comments on a lot of things because why would the Aleister Black character care about comments?’ – Aleister Black

‘People are scared to have a strong opinion because, with social media, almost everyone lives the life of a celebrity.’ – Yungblud

‘Social media, to me, has got out of hand. Why can’t we all be nice to each other?’ – Sandi Toksvig

‘Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands of messages and voices bombard us from the moment we wake, fighting for our attention. All we see and hear, all day long, is news. And most of it is bad.’ – Joseph Prince

‘I have often said social media is a race to the bottom.’ – Troy Aikman

‘New words can spread like wildfire thanks to social media – you only have to look at ‘mansplaining’ and ‘milkshake duck’ to see language evolution at work – so why not old ones too?’ – Susie Dent

‘Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.’ – Gary Vaynerchuk

‘With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put on TV.’ – LZ Granderson

‘It takes a long time to free oneself from chatter – goals, social media, image, persona. And if you’re able to move through in that way, you can actually start trying to create from a different place.’ – Sandra Oh

‘My kids are really good with social media; that’s really an important dynamic in our relationship with our audience, and it’s a great way to connect.’ – Kris Jenner

‘You don’t need to go far to see the hatred and abuse that happens online. Even using social media is anti-social because people are always on their phones.’ – Ronny Chieng

‘I don’t think people understand the power of social media or our phones.’ – Zendaya

‘Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.’ – Margaret Atwood

‘Much of social media can be seen as the ‘News of me.’ It’s not so much a platform for connecting and sharing as it is a platform for advertising the idea of yourself you want to portray to others: the image of yourself you want to project.’ – Hozier

‘There are things in life that don’t come to me naturally, and social media and the Internet and all those things are some of them, somewhere between taxes and cooking!’ – Margot Robbie

‘We always talk about bullying, bullies; that is what social media is. It’s just people we gave a voice to who didn’t deserve to have a voice.’ – Alberto Del Rio

‘Social media was premised on the free and open exchange of ideas. It has reconnected old friends, helped people find lost loved ones, and given public figures and businesses a platform to market themselves and their products. But as Big Tech companies have grown, so has their appetite to censor.’ – Nicole Malliotakis

‘The dialogue and conversation about food is everywhere – television, chat rooms, social media outlets and among everyday conversations.’ – Marcus Samuelsson

‘Social media has been a great change. It’s also a great way to disseminate comics and market them.’ – Ryan North

‘I do think more players should engage with fans, especially on social media.’ – Trevor Bauer

‘All I can say is every relationship is different, and every personality, and everyone handles every couple’s social media differently.’ – Molly Qerim

‘I am so appalled by the whole social media thing. I don’t get it; it doesn’t appeal to me. Neither does a computer or working on a laptop.’ – Marc Jacobs

‘Although social media is a relatively new form of communication, it has become the primary way retailers and customers are interfacing.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘Social media is great in some ways – if we’re able to spread good messages.’ – Seth Rollins

‘Thanks to the Internet in general and social media in particular, the Chinese people now have a mechanism to hold authorities accountable for wrongdoing – at least sometimes – without any actual political or legal reforms having taken place. Major political power struggles and scandals are no longer kept within elite circles.’ – Rebecca MacKinnon

‘Social media can sometimes influence the charts, but I think that only great music makes it to the top. The good songs make it.’ – Dua Lipa

‘I have never joined the Facebook world because, to be truthful, social media scares me to death. It is kind of crazy how huge that world is, so I have never joined Facebook, but I do have Instagram and Twitter.’ – Bindi Irwin

‘With social media, you don’t just publish a book and figure you’ve done your part; your fans want to talk to you, have a conversation. It means, though, that you can connect with your readers like never before, so you don’t have to guess what they like – you can ask.’ – W. Bruce Cameron

‘The judiciary wields enormous power but is utterly mysterious to most Americans. People know more about ‘American Idol’ judges than Supreme Court judges. Done right, social media is a high-octane tool to boost civic awareness.’ – Don Willett

‘Very few people use landline phones for much of anything. So when you talk about things like online chat and social media messages and emails, what you’re really talking about is the full extent of human communication.’ – Glenn Greenwald

‘The hardest part of living without social media was remembering that my little life was enough, so I could just stay there and live it without asking for anyone else’s permission or validation. I realized that for me, posting is like asking the world, ‘Do you ‘like’ me?” – Glennon Doyle Melton

‘I think taking vacations and turning off the phone and only doing emails or social media for a specific short amount of time helps with work/life balance. If I’m checking it all day I start to feel cuckoo-bird. So I just do it once or twice a day instead of a thousand. And then remembering that it doesn’t matter. It just doesn’t matter.’ – Maria Bamford

‘Social media has allowed fans and celebrities to really engage and have an organic interaction with each other. Ever since I’ve had the opportunity to use social media, all the way back to the days of chat rooms, I found I was able to really understand what the fans wanted, communicate with them, and share my lifestyle.’ – Christina Milian

‘Because of social media, we’re so fixated on our appearances.’ – Kaitlyn Bristowe

‘If the social media platforms don’t take the gatekeeping seriously they will kill the public sphere. If we don’t get this right in 2020 you can open a decade or longer of a descent into fascism. And it will be global because platforms are global.’ – Maria Ressa

‘I think people see the social media numbers, and the assumption is made that we’re running a campaign that is just social media, but I think we’re running a very old-school campaign.’ – James Lankford

‘I was not on social media for a really long time because I was afraid of being seen.’ – Kelly Marie Tran

‘Doctors have a really big fear of looking unprofessional. I’ve always said that if you’re a professional person, you’ll never come off looking unprofessional, whether it’s social media or something else.’ – Mikhail Varshavski

‘You cannot underestimate people’s ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It’s a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.’ – Gary Vaynerchuk

‘As far as putting stuff on social media, I think Instagram is really cool because I like the visual aspect. You’re taking pictures, and you can put a filter on them, and it’s super creative.’ – Ross Lynch

‘Film is one small voice in a great cacophony of noise from newspapers, from the television, from social media, so it can have a little dent, you know? It can help to create a climate of opinion.’ – Ken Loach

‘When I put about my anxiety on social media, I decided I’m just going to be honest about it. I’m really glad I did it because I do think social media has taken over everyone’s lives right now, especially the young ones. Kids are rocking around with Instagram at 5.’ – Perrie Edwards

‘Social media provides an avenue to build relationships with media outlets and have an ongoing relationship with reporters.’ – Amy Jo Martin

‘One of the really difficult things that people say to me on social media or whatever – is that I need to shut up and go home and take care of my daughter. That’s very hurtful.’ – Stormy Daniels

‘I have two daughters, and they grew up and wanted to get into Instagram, and I didn’t know anything about social media. I started it to learn about what they were starting to do and how they communicate with their friends. I opened an account. Very fast, in a few hours, I realized that I actually liked it.’ – Emmanuel Lubezki

‘Companies and managers that find a way to harness social media stand to gain.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘Technology has already opened the door a bit wider for filmmakers, with smaller digital cameras making production less cumbersome. Social media is allowing self-distribution, and girl groups like Spark Summit are leading the way in calling for fewer Photoshop image alterations of girls in print media.’ – Sharon Lawrence

‘I completely understand social media as a method of promotion and digesting information, but it just seems like a colossal waste of time to me, and there’s a million other ways I’d rather waste my time.’ – Jason Mantzoukas

‘I’ve never been the type to be on social media all the time.’ – Roddy Ricch

‘Every social media post should have a beautiful graphic. If there are two identical stories, the one with the beautiful graphic will always win.’ – Guy Kawasaki

‘My generation was born to work with social media – it’s a natural part of our communication with the world.’ – Anwar Hadid

‘By providing memorable social media customer service, companies not only create deeper connections with consumers, but they glean valuable insights on how to improve their products or services.’ – Amy Jo Martin

‘What I was excited about was the opportunity for punters to be part of politics. The whole idea was to allow the voices of people outside this weirdo palace of Westminster to be heard. I thought the whole social media thing might be really positive.’ – Laura Kuenssberg

‘I don’t do much on social media. I don’t really want people knowing about my life.’ – Sean Bean

‘Once upon a time you could actually unplug and it wasn’t, like, a weird thing. Now your friends will say, ‘I’m fasting from social media.” – KiKi Layne

‘There are a lot of pros and cons about social media; it’s just how you choose to handle it and how you have to be prepared for the negatives as well.’ – Aubrey Peeples

‘Social media helps you stay connected, but we can’t survive without real communication with loved ones.’ – Pulkit Samrat

‘Social media is making us more anti-social.’ – Tom Green

‘Social media is good in some ways, for me to Skype my son and grandchildren every day in America is wonderful. But then you’ve got other things on the Internet which are absolutely dreadful. It’s poisonous and there should be greater control of that. You’re not going to change it, though, so you have to work with it.’ – Tony Pulis

‘I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.’ – Mitski

‘I’m a little bit wary of people. It freaked me out when a fan connected with me on social media, then had plastic surgery to look like me, dyed his hair the same colour, and got a pug dog like mine. He was also a hacker, so I had to change all my passwords.’ – Belinda Carlisle

‘I don’t like a girl on social media, when you have an open inbox, answering questions from dudes left and right every day. What’s the point? It’s like having your number all out. Everybody think they’re famous when they get 100,000 followers on Instagram and 5,000 on Twitter.’ – Meek Mill

‘Mainstream media can be controlled, right. Because messaging from mainstream comes from that particular news outlet or whatever. Then you have the top people driving that messaging, and then that’s what it is, right? Social media can really stir up a higher level of panic. If you think about it, it’s not controlled.’ – Dr. Disrespect

‘We live in a world of social media, dating apps, online profiles where everyone is portraying themselves in 2D, trying to look cool. Portray yourself in three dimensions.’ – Matthew Hussey

‘I read all my fan comments on my social media. I love answering questions.’ – Rikishi

‘Judging by informal observation, most young Americans burn up their spare time buffing their emotional IQ and self-esteem with social media and non-stop texting. That’s great for eye-thumb coordination, but what about the satisfaction of actually making something?’ – Seth Shostak

‘Regardless of what the naysayers believe about human interaction and social media, the data show us that the abundance of technology is actually increasing the abundance of happiness all over the world.’ – Peter Diamandis

‘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.’ – Fabrizio Moreira

‘Social media is a superimposing place where people are usually bragging.’ – Brandon Stanton

‘Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They’re only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar.’ – Alexis Ohanian

‘If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.’ – Bryan Adams

‘It doesn’t matter if it’s social media or radio media or television media – it’s all media, and it’s all marketing. It’s about understanding where your fans are. And when you have infiltrated them, and they’re satisfied, and there’s demand, how do you grow it from there?’ – Scott Borchetta

‘TV is changing in terms of how we are consuming sports. Appointment viewing no longer exists, as between social media and the Internet, people already have the news and can get the highlights – so now people want the opinions.’ – Molly Qerim

‘My way to approach social media is through positivity, that’s what Rev Run is all about.’ – Rev. Run

‘It was tough to get to where I am, to get the following that I do have on social media and all the fans out there, which I greatly appreciate, but I would love to have a template so the next girl who grows up doesn’t have to go through a lot of the hardships that we faced in our generation.’ – Hilary Knight

‘I don’t have social media, and I’m not, I guess, that adept at being on the Internet.’ – Alden Ehrenreich

‘Part of the sales pitch for the Trump campaign is their unique, esoteric secret sauce based on a rabid cult following motivated by Facebook, Twitter, and other social media manipulation.’ – Rick Wilson

‘We get caught in our little silos and end up working against ourselves. And I think social media culture really encourages that, because you’re really just shouting into a void hoping someone picks up on what you’re saying.’ – Justin Simien

‘I don’t do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology.’ – Edward Ruscha

‘The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.’ – Walter Kirn

‘One of the most incredible things I believe that social media has done, is that it genuinely just amplifies what’s inside us already.’ – Jay Shetty

‘I guess NBC must have noticed that one of my main staples is social media. So, when they approached me for ‘The Voice,’ I thought, ‘Why not be the first one to do it?” – Christina Milian

‘Anybody can write anything they want these days with social media, blogging, etc.’ – Joe Maddon

‘President Trump’s frequent, unfiltered use of his personal Twitter account as a means of official communication is unprecedented. If the President is going to take to social media to make sudden public policy proclamations, we must ensure that these statements are documented and preserved for future reference.’ – Mike Quigley

‘Technology has allowed me to reach my fans directly. Social media: it has been a complete revolution of how to interact, promote and share things.’ – Tony Hawk

‘As a communication medium, social media is a critical tool for terror groups to exploit.’ – James Comey

‘There is no debate that social media is a great tool for networking with others in our industry. It can lead to friendships, support, and serendipitous connections with reviewers, agents, reporters, or editors.’ – M. J. Rose

‘My career was exploding at the same time that social media itself was expanding. But when my online videos were taking off, I didn’t think, ‘Oh, great! I’m going to be able to parlay this into a career!’ I just wanted to be a comedian. I just wanted to perform live.’ – Bo Burnham

‘F1 has to keep appealing to sports fans and not only to motor racing fans but to possibly a wider public… I don’t know if it’s only social media or different electronic devices that will do that. How to establish more of a personal link to the drivers and to the teams – these are things that you have to think of.’ – Albert II, Prince of Monaco

‘I’ve probably got the most eclectic social media there is because it literally goes from hanging out with my son at a park, to, like, Madonna’s house, to a rave in Africa.’ – Diplo

‘Towards the end of summer 2013, when school ended, I decided to re-download all of my social media channels and make videos again. The next day, I woke up and had 9,000 followers. I did the same thing the next day and woke up with 54,000 followers.’ – Nash Grier

‘With social media, the gatekeepers are our followers. It has opened so many doors for me not only musically, but fashion-wise as well.’ – Saweetie

‘Once social media was introduced, it enabled a new way for people, particularly the younger generation, to connect with one another, based on common interests, goals and even values.’ – Raymond Arroyo

‘I love social media. There are a lot of benefits, and it gives us a platform for what we want to become, but there’s always such a negative tone to it. You see a picture, and the first thing you see or think is a negative comment.’ – Karrueche Tran

‘You’ve gotta understand that with branding and the way things are promoted, in our day and age, your older movie stars are not reachable or accessible because they’re not a part of the whole social media world.’ – Kevin Hart

‘I’m a human, we’re going to go through hard times and hard periods of our life, it’s not going to be an easy ride all the time. That’s what we forget. On social media, it seems that way that living are living these idyllic lives and it’s not. There’s going to be bumps in the road, that’s life.’ – Perrie Edwards

‘It’s just been my mom and I for, like, three years or so. I love being able to not have to feel like I have to share the whole everything with the world, which is why I’m not very good at the Snap Chat, and I need help with my social media. Because I… I kind of just like having just us.’ – Auli’i Cravalho

‘Today, when you look at social media, you see that the narrative can be overtaken by people just from Twitter and Instagram. I know when Ferguson was going down those first few nights, I was watching feeds on the ground on Twitter, not CNN.’ – Ava DuVernay

‘Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘A large social-media presence is important because it’s one of the last ways to conduct cost-effective marketing. Everything else involves buying eyeballs and ears. Social media enables a small business to earn eyeballs and ears.’ – Guy Kawasaki

‘A lot of people who are ‘social media’ stars aren’t considered to be ‘real’ stars, and people underestimate the amount of work it takes to edit and upload a video every single day and document your life like that.’ – Shawn Mendes

‘Social media, like blogs, are truth-seeking technologies. In fact, the Internet itself is the greatest truth-generating device ever created.’ – Jason Calacanis

‘Now we have so many more social outlets, so many ways to be stalked and bullied. If social media is too much for you to handle, then don’t have a Twitter or Facebook account. Just be yourself. Be who you want to be.’ – Khloe Kardashian

‘In this age of social media, it is easy to punch out a phrase ‘thoughts are with the family’ when something bad occurs, and at times, it is insincere.’ – Peter Crouch

‘My two daughters live on Facebook, and social media is their mode of communication.’ – Tony Goldwyn

‘We’re used to the characteristics of social media – participation, connection, instant gratification – and when school doesn’t offer the same, it’s easy to tune out.’ – Adora Svitak

‘I’m theatrically trained. Before Vine, before any of the social media, I was an actor. I was going to auditions; I was taking the classes.’ – King Bach

‘Social media is the highlight reel of one’s life – it’s not realistic.’ – Taylor Hill

‘To be fair, restaurant culture has always been about bragging rights – such is the elitist nature of food. It’s just that social media makes it that much easier for everyone to play the game.’ – Melissa Leong

‘Contrary to the utopian rhetoric of social media enthusiasts, the Internet often makes the jump from deliberation to participation even more difficult, thwarting collective action under the heavy pressure of never-ending internal debate.’ – Evgeny Morozov

‘With the social media phenomenon, where people’s opinions inform so much of what we do with our lives, where the number of ‘likes’ decides what we should program, I cringe.’ – Robert Lepage

‘Social media serve as the propaganda machine of 21st century terror, and this is apparent in the Middle East.’ – Lee Zeldin

‘I have dealt with lots of teens in my show and the big problems teenagers are facing is the impact of social media in all forms, as it seems like it has a heavy negative influence on them. Social media sites feed narcissistic behaviour and the need to be popular and they are being bombarded with half-truths and some facts.’ – Jo Frost

‘99.5 percent of the people that walk around and say they are a social media expert or guru are clowns. We are going to live through a devastating social media bubble.’ – Gary Vaynerchuk

‘I avoid social media and articles written about me, because I’m human and negative comments pollute my head and make me feel confused about myself.’ – Camila Morrone

‘It is common knowledge that social media today is fertile ground for trampling all over the decency of language. This is done not just by members of your party and your supporters but also those from the opposition. And their numbers are increasing every day.’ – Ravish Kumar

‘Social media is the devil. Absolute devil. Oh, my God. It’s the worst thing ever.’ – DeMarcus Cousins

‘In 2021 social media is how the world communicates, and the enforcement of arbitrary content guidelines imperil free speech. As censorship increases, we are heading down the path that led to the silencing of political dissent in the Soviet Union, China, Cuba and Venezuela.’ – Nicole Malliotakis

‘I’m not equipped for the social media thing.’ – Ryan Eggold

‘When it comes to things like social media, the only time I go crazy is when my kids get affected, like when they get someone stupid saying something ignorant to them about me because they are babies.’ – Alberto Del Rio

‘I’ll go out to eat and have a really good lunch and try to shut the phone off, but I can’t, really, because the social media stuff will start happening.’ – Molly Qerim

‘When someone makes a mistake, it’s always highlighted on social media. If the fans were there live in the flesh at a game, I don’t think they would have the same views but that’s just part and parcel of it.’ – Reece James

‘As far as social media and all that, I understand connecting with fans on a different level, but I don’t feel the need to open myself up to the opinion of everybody in the world with a phone or computer. I just don’t get that, being connected to everybody on such a superficial level like that. It’s not really for me.’ – Dean Ambrose

‘We derive so much of our self-confidence and validation from Instagram. Just imagine one day Instagram gets deleted like all of your friends who you think you have on social media, all these likes and comments just disappear, what are we left with? We have stopped valuing human relationships and contact.’ – Ananya Panday

‘I concentrate on training. I go to the gym. I want to put the football first, not the social media or what’s going on around the camp.’ – Mohamed Salah

‘Social media is just a platform. Twitter is a very simple and immediate broadcast platform. Facebook is a very personal, when it comes to friends and when it comes to fan pages, a little bit less but still somewhat personal way to communicate.’ – Mark Cuban

‘When I feel like I’m getting overwhelmed, I take a break from my phone and social media to regroup.’ – Skai Jackson

‘I do end up revealing a lot online, but in books, what I reveal is more tailored. Authors can couch revelations in fiction. With social media, no one wants to watch or read if it doesn’t feel authentic, so you end up giving away a lot of yourself.’ – Jenny Han

‘I met over a hundred preteens who told me their stories. I asked them how they felt about their femininity in today’s society. I wanted to know how they dealt with their self-image at a time when social media is so important, and they have access to so much information and so many images.’ – Maimouna Doucoure

‘Social media has become a dark place, and the sites need to clean up their act if they want people to keep using them.’ – Susanna Reid

‘I think it is very important to not be too much on social media. You have a lot of positive comments but also negative ones, and at the end of the day, that shouldn’t affect you, but it is much more important not to read it so you just don’t know.’ – Max Verstappen

‘Obviously social media has had a massive impact on the fame game, but not in a positive way. But it can be for some.’ – Margot Robbie

‘My presence in the social media and on the Internet is much bigger than many of the other candidates, including Mitt Romney. So, when you take the social media and you take the Tea Party citizens movement, you have a combination there that, quite frankly, 10 years ago, I wouldn’t have had a chance.’ – Herman Cain

‘As social media is less about technology and more about relationship building, we are starting to see more women have a heavy influence if not dominant role in the social media space. It’s no wonder that Facebook is being run in part by chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.’ – Erik Qualman

‘Increasingly, consumers don’t search for products and services. Rather, services come to their attention via social media.’ – Erik Qualman

‘With the growing reliance on social media, we no longer search for news, or the products and services we wish to buy. Instead they are being pushed to us by friends, acquaintances and business colleagues.’ – Erik Qualman

‘At a minimum the majority of search dollars will flow to a social media model because people care most about what their peers think and the technology is there for that information to be quickly shared on products and services.’ – Erik Qualman

‘Social media has made the web all about me, me, me.’ – Erik Qualman

‘I’ve learned that social media and our private lives, you know, our private lives are not so private anymore, so it takes a little bit of getting used to.’ – Jeremy Lin

‘I love social media and the ability to connect to new people through Twitter and Facebook and share my real time experiences with my mommy network.’ – Soleil Moon Frye

‘I get most of my news updates from electronic and social media.’ – LeVar Burton

‘You don’t want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don’t want to be – Facebook is not the first in social media. They’re the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs’ history, he’s never been first.’ – Malcolm Gladwell

‘I think that people in the phase between being someone’s kid and being someone’s parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you’ve never been able to before.’ – Lena Dunham

‘People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.’ – Mindy Kaling

‘Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction.’ – Guy Kawasaki

‘We’d all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn’t any more important than a train station, a road or a bus service. We don’t worry about police temporarily closing those. Common sense. If riot info and fear is spreading by Facebook and Twitter, shut them off for an hour or two, then restore.’ – Louise Mensch

‘I got involved early on in social media – I created one of the first social networks – and for me, social gaming was a natural evolution of that.’ – Mark Pincus

‘In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results.’ – Sean Parker

‘At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.’ – Sean Parker

‘More and more, job listings are exclusively available online and as technology evolves nearly every occupation now requires a basic level of digital literacy with web navigation, email access and participation in social media.’ – Michael K. Powell

‘I would absolutely love to go back to the simplicity of the ’80s, where there wasn’t texting, social media, iPhones, or smartphones. I love the fact that you would go home and check your messages. I’m not well suited to the world of modern technology.’ – Matthew Rhys

‘Too many brands treat social media as a one way, broadcast channel, rather than a two-way dialogue through which emotional storytelling can be transferred.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘The most impactful way consumers can assert their power is to become mindful shoppers, giving their dollars only to socially responsible companies. In today’s world of social media and smart phones, this is easy to do.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘The new dynamics between brands and consumers, driven by social media, are proving to be a powerful impetus for change.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘The creative destruction that social media is currently unleashing will change more than technology or the leader board of the Fortune 100. It is driving a qualitative shift in the nature of relationships between brands and their customers.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘In the coming years, if not sooner, social media will become a powerful tool that consumers will aggressively use to influence business attitudes and force companies into greater social responsibility – and, I suggest, move us towards a more sustainable practice of capitalism.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchange trivial information, these critics are being proven wrong time and again.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘Concerned consumers are realizing that they can use social media to organize themselves around shared values to start effective movements. Social media gives them a sounding board to share ideas, as well as a means to punish irresponsible corporate behaviors.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘The leverage and influence social media gives citizens are rapidly spreading into the business world.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘There is a fundamental shift that social media necessitates in business today – the need to transition from ‘Me First’ to ‘We First’ thinking.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘Social media demands a lot of us on top of our already demanding lives. So let’s disconnect as we need to and renew our interest and ourselves.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘The framing of how we relate to each other within and across social media platforms will continue to become more sophisticated and nuanced in their expression of how we structure our relationships in our real world lives.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘Ultimately, it’s possible that social media platforms will be designed as templates that the users themselves customize in terms of the best way to express their community and experience of life, and brands will have to simply follow suit.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘One of the greatest challenges companies face in adjusting to the impact of social media, is knowing where to start.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘By linking with friends and ultimately strangers and building those relationships, social media is reweaving the social fabric that can then be used to scale your non-profit efforts.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘Without question, CEOs, executives and employees in companies in the United States and around the world have rallied to face the challenge of a social media marketplace.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘Some critics have challenged what the return on investment is for engagement in social media. Others have complained that the metrics don’t exist to demonstrate value.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘For decades, media companies have largely controlled the tools through which consumers were told what to buy, wear or think. Now consumers possess the same ability to produce, distribute and curate content and distribute it to their peers in real time across social media platforms.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘As a function of the easy access to information provided by the Internet, and the ease with which it can be shared thanks to social media, consumers are now better informed as to the behavior of brands and the multiple global crises we face.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘Brands must be very specific in their choice of social media platforms through which to communicate their CSR or cause messaging.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘Social media companies must combine their mastery of the latest in real-time, location based or augmented reality technologies in the service of clear and consistent storytelling.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘There’s an adage that is an apt description of the new dynamic at work between brands and consumers connected through social media: People support what they help to build. But now that many brands are launching community-driven cause marketing campaigns, the challenge becomes what to do next?’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘The role of social media is critical because it helps to spread cognitive dissonance by connecting thought leaders and activists to ordinary citizens rapidly expanding the network of people who become willing to take action.’ – Simon Mainwaring

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

‘As more people use social media to tell the story of the future, the wants and needs of more people will be reflected.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘The most potentially transformative impact of social media is its ability to encourage brands to marry profit and purpose. The reason brands participate is that such outreach earns those companies social currency enabling them to start or participate in conversations that connect them to consumers in meaningful ways.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘With the never-ending stream of new social technologies, apps and platforms rolling out every day, its easy to get lost in the minutiae of social media. Yet for there to be effective change, especially within large, top-down, hierarchical institutions, a company must have an over-arching understanding of the new role it has to play.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it’s all gone sideways.’ – Susan Orlean

‘The one thing I’ve discovered about social media is that people love answering questions. In fact, it sometimes feels like at any given moment, millions of people are online who have been waiting for exactly the question you fire off.’ – Susan Orlean

‘Nowadays, social media is the easiest place to go to find something.’ – David Nail

‘Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.’ – Chris O’Dowd

‘It’s funny how I use social media because I don’t use it to promote my restaurants that much. I use it for social issues and I think that’s what it’s for. I do a few things – I mess around with music a lot because that’s a passion of mine. If something strikes me and I want to share it, I do.’ – Tom Colicchio

‘The world when I was 13 wasn’t truly driven by tabloid magazines and social media and reality shows. I was able to have a little more of a private life.’ – LeAnn Rimes

‘Yeah, look, I think what we have with the social media and the digital media, and all the telecommunications we have today is a big megaphone, amplification.’ – Mike DeWine

‘Think of social media as the Internet. I can’t think of anyone betting against the Internet in 2012.’ – Gary Vaynerchuk

‘I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.’ – Bill Keller

‘My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.’ – Bill Keller

‘The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.’ – Bill Keller

‘I had a teacher, he was 86 years old and his name was Luigi in New York City, and he said, ‘Never stop moving. You get to reinvent yourself.’ So you have to find ways to reinventing yourself. Especially today, because it’s a whole different market – social media is so important.’ – Ben Vereen

‘Social media is key to promoting the editorial posts on my website.’ – Lauren Conrad

‘In an age of social media and content being key, it’s important to change the mold where you have $100,000 to $150,000 for one video. I hired some guys that are young, just out of college, and we used some new, far-less-expensive cameras and technology to make videos.’ – Ronnie Dunn

‘I once looked over the shoulder of a friend on Facebook and it looked like hieroglyphs to me. There’s merit online, of course, but social media gets super freaky. Imagine if three generations from now, people online have forgotten what date or day of the week it is.’ – Feist

‘Our world is moving at an ever-accelerating pace, and with the advent of social media, what happens in New York now can be reported across the globe 60 seconds later.’ – Stuart Rose

‘Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone’s rights. It’s where we’re reminded that we’re all human and all equal. It’s where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them.’ – Queen Rania of Jordan

‘Because of social media, a lot of people think they can be, like, a rapper or a singer or a musician because they can put something on YouTube and it might become a thing because there’s – like – YouTube phenomenons and whatnot, you know? It’s not like they dedicated years to it or anything. It’s annoying.’ – Sky Ferreira

‘I hope that all new filmmakers see that the Internet and social media are helpful tools in establishing a fan base as well as being able to interact with your fans.’ – Lloyd Kaufman

‘I was offered seven deals from seven different major labels between 2009-2011, and to be quite honest… nowadays, you need a hit record, a great radio team, an amazing PR firm, social media, a big budget, a team that is ready to work extremely hard, and the drive and passion to win!’ – Ashanti

‘Social media has created a legion of social delinquents, billions of people speaking not their minds but their spleens, venting everything from the gum-cracking snark befitting a hair-twisting mallrat to the froth-flecked rage of a bell tower marksman.’ – Steven Weber

‘Social media can be a powerful tool to listen to, engage with and gain access to customers that you would otherwise not be able to connect with.’ – Carol Roth

‘Whether via social media or in person, building your relationships is a long-term process, and the ultimate goal is to strengthen your network one person at a time.’ – Raymond Arroyo

‘Social media presents an opportunity for business people to connect and know each other prior to a phone call or email taking place.’ – Jeffrey Gitomer

‘My website, my email magazine, my blog, my books, my corporate seminars, and my public seminars all create the ability for social media to work and all build reputation and ranking.’ – Jeffrey Gitomer

‘Universities want to recruit the students that they believe will best represent the university while in school and beyond. Students with a robust social media presence and clearly defined personal brand stand to become only more influential.’ – Amy Jo Martin

‘When choosing between two similar applicants, hiring managers are increasingly turning to social media outlets to supplement information they are unable to glean from applications or interviews.’ – Amy Jo Martin

‘We all have personal brands and most of us have already left a digital footprint, whether we like it or not. Proper social media use highlights your strengths that may not shine through in an interview or application and gives the world a broader view of who you are. Use it wisely.’ – Amy Jo Martin

‘Shaquille and I kind of joke we were the Christopher Columbus of social media. We’re kind of out on a boat by ourselves going through these uncharted waters. But it’s become more understood, embraced and accepted, and now it’s pretty much expected by fans for athletes, leagues and teams to be there.’ – Amy Jo Martin

‘I was with Shaq at his home the day he retired. It was innovative for him to become the media and announce via social media that he was retiring.’ – Amy Jo Martin

‘While strides are being made in the social-media space, the newspaper and news business should continue to embrace social media.’ – Amy Jo Martin

‘I realized that social media can be powerful force for good in the world and that acts of kindness can be scaled globally.’ – Amy Jo Martin

‘Bridging the virtual world with the physical word is really when social media channels come to life and the magic happens. Because whoever coined the term ‘social media’ didn’t do us any favors. It’s not really media. It’s more like the telephone, less like the TV.’ – Amy Jo Martin

‘We don’t like what we don’t know or understand. Parents don’t like the thought of their kids embracing social media because they don’t fully understand the benefits and dangers.’ – Amy Jo Martin

‘In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.’ – Yishan Wong

‘Because it’s so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, ‘likes’ and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art – or even into their own Web ventures.’ – Neil Strauss

‘The reason people need advice on using social media is that they’re a much more complex and nuanced way to communicate than a conversation or email.’ – Alexis Ohanian

‘The whole point of social media is continuity and continual engagement.’ – Clara Shih

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

‘Leaving the record companies tweaked something inside me and I realised I don’t have to deal with labels to make something happen. If I want to meet someone, I don’t have to go through the label – I’ll just go to them. I took my life in my hands and social media has just helped me do that more.’ – Imogen Heap

‘I think writers have to be proactive: they’ve got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it’s hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there’s a great deal of opportunity out there if you’ve got the right story.’ – Ian Rankin

‘We live in an age where there is a firehose of information, and there is no hierarchy of what is important and what is not. Where the truth is often fashioned through a variety of digital means. Are you your avatar? Who are you in social media? What face do you turn toward the world? How much does it have in common with who you actually are?’ – David Carr

‘It’s fantastic to be known as a company that responds quickly to users, shares great resources and friendly banter with them over Twitter, and forges relationships on Pinterest, Facebook, and every other social media site out there.’ – Kathryn Minshew

‘I have a dad-ager. My dad is really good at the business end of things. But it’s really a family affair. My mother handles all my social media stuff – Facebook, Twitter, e-mails, that kind of thing.’ – Jencarlos Canela

‘I’m a social media addict.’ – Issa Rae

‘Fashion is such an insider’s club, but slowly, the playing field is evening out. Through social media, everyone can have a front-row seat.’ – Nicola Formichetti

‘I think you’re kind of seeing the real me as far as seeing what I post on social media, because I am very much into cooking, and my dogs, and obviously my son, and my lifestyle in Santa Cruz is very laid-back.’ – Marisa Miller

‘Among the social media – I’ve tried them all – Facebook is a bit of a game, but Twitter is a productivity tool. I use it regularly and I’m addicted to it.’ – Nouriel Roubini

‘I think that people post to social media to help shape their public identity.’ – Eli Pariser

‘Good social media is authentic. What makes social media work is actually having something to say.’ – Steven Levitt

‘It’s fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.’ – Ethan Zuckerman

‘The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.’ – Evgeny Morozov

‘Regarding social media, I really don’t understand what appears to be the general population’s lack of concern over privacy issues in publicizing their entire lives on the Internet for others to see to such an extent… but hey it’s them, not me, so whatever.’ – Axl Rose

‘When I was in high school, I got bullied through social media – on the Internet, on my Facebook. That was hard for me, and I think social media has made it easy for people to bully other people on-line because they can just post anything they want anonymously.’ – Alexia Fast

‘Entire books are being written about the distractions of social media. I don’t believe media compel distraction, but I think it’s clear that they afford it.’ – Howard Rheingold

”Superbetter’ looks more like a social media platform or a social network than a typical video game. You know, there aren’t any 3-d spaces to explore. You don’t have this avatar that you’re building up. It’s more about thinking like a gamer.’ – Jane McGonigal

‘Whether you’re a Twitter follower, a YouTube subscriber or a Facebook friend, natural social instinct is to collect people and to not kind of see them later. But unfortunately, with social media, you collect them and they’re in your life, whether you really want them or not.’ – Felicia Day

‘Social media is an information channel; it’s like radio or TV… In Cisco, we made a lot of money on public protocol. I think the social media model replicates that protocol.’ – Sandra Lerner

‘With the Internet and social media being a huge part of today’s culture, I think it’s super important to promote staying smart online.’ – G. Hannelius

‘Social media and the Internet haven’t changed our capacity for social interaction any more than the Internet has changed our ability to be in love or our basic propensity to violence, because those are such fundamental human attributes.’ – Nicholas A. Christakis

‘I’m naturally shy, so the social media thing is new to me. I haven’t really figured out how my voice sounds on social media, you know? I don’t want to tweet everyday just for the sake of tweeting. I want to make sure whatever I do there is honest. Social media can very quickly get fake, and I don’t want to be that guy.’ – Hunter Hayes

‘We have been talking with leaders: Change is coming; you can no longer have a closed regime with an open society – satellites, social media, the Internet – you have this kind, this kind of society moving forward, and you are running this closed regime; this is not sustainable. This cannot continue.’ – Ali Babacan

‘Even with all the negativeness of the whole social media thing, I still think it’s leaps and bounds more positive.’ – Luke Bryan

‘Most days I am in public. If I go to the store, with social media, I’m in public. It might as well be a press conference.’ – Dwyane Wade

‘Everyone is living for everyone else now. They’re doing stuff so they can tell other people about it. I don’t get all that social media stuff, I’ve always got other things I want to do – odd jobs around the house. No one wants to hear about that.’ – Karl Pilkington

‘Social media for the majority of companies is not about helping customers or improving products.’ – Tucker Max

‘A lot of people use social media to share mundane things or for self-glorification. I try to use it to share interesting things with people.’ – Ashton Kutcher

‘One of the things I’ve become immune to is people talking about market cap and social media platforms.’ – Ashton Kutcher

‘I am still fairly new to the whole social media thing – I am definitely tweeting and Facebooking. It’s a nice way to connect with fans.’ – Laura Mennell

‘Kids should speak to each other. They’re horrid to each other online, they bully each other – they should shut up and stop it. The problem with social media is there is too much freedom. It’s too much, too young.’ – Cara Delevingne

‘I read the paper pretty much every day, as well as getting news from the Internet and on TV. But I don’t do social media at all; I’m a Luddite from that point of view.’ – Romola Garai

‘Social media gives one a family to share one’s life with.’ – Sonu Nigam

‘There is a part of my generation that is not on social media because they have happy lives and they’re not trying to connect with anybody. And there are other people who are on social media because they need to connect.’ – Patton Oswalt

‘The SEC has actually progressively loosened up the rules and recognized the value of social media, but the goal is always going to be to get information out as broadly as possible as quickly as possible.’ – Mary Schapiro

‘I think social media, it in a way forces companies to be more authentic or more transparent because it gives a voice to the consumer and a reach to the consumer that they didn’t have before.’ – Padmasree Warrior

‘I think the adoption rate with respect to social media and how companies leverage that varies by the company. Cisco is probably a leader in the space. A lot of times, we actually use virtual ways to communicate our brand and do some of our advertising, first on the social space, then we do on physical advertising.’ – Padmasree Warrior

‘The Social Wishlist on Facebook is a great example of everything right about social media.’ – Denis Leary

‘I have a choice – I can either watch all the dailies, or I can follow the social media. I can’t do both.’ – Steven Spielberg

‘Social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party. It’s the people that matter, not the venue. So when the trend leaders of one social niche or another decide the place everyone is socializing has lost its luster or, more important, its exclusivity, they move on to the next one, taking their followers with them.’ – Douglas Rushkoff

‘Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices – it amplifies our messages as well.’ – Jessica Valenti

‘With the evolution of social media that includes blogging, Facebook, and Twitter, who and how information is delivered has changed tremendously. The landscape for news is a different place, and people have to accept that.’ – Michael Eric Dyson

‘Celebrities have more influence to be able to reach out to people, but people are becoming famous on Facebook and social media every day.’ – Shemar Moore

‘I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I’ve been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research.’ – William Gibson

‘The truth is I’ve been doing Kickstarter before there was Kickstarter; there was no Internet. Social Media was writing letters, making phone calls, beating the bushes.’ – Spike Lee

‘By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don’t need to wait for our grandchildren’s questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events.’ – Adora Svitak

‘The thought that so many people get their news from social media really is scary.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘You could have a zillion Facebook followers. Those people don’t buy records. It’s about a hundred to one…Record companies, they don’t have any money, so they see social media as the free marketing… So… ‘Billy, light yourself on fire and stand upside down, and that’ll market the record.” – Billy Corgan

‘It’s important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media.’ – Billy Corgan

‘I’m not involved on any social media; it’s really not my style.’ – Chris Carter

‘Companies are hiring cosplayers to be promotional spokes models for them. There are cosplayers trying to develop a cult following even though they’ve only been cosplaying for less than a year or two. It’s all about the social media or Facebook likes.’ – Yaya Han

‘Social media and music in general have been changing so fast. You can go on Twitter and go from one artist to another. What I really like about it is the opportunity to communicate directly with your fans.’ – Juanes

‘Finding the perfect lookalike to work with is crucial and a lengthy process. We have our regulars, but we also use social media all the time to find people. It’s amazing who you can unearth on Twitter.’ – Alison Jackson

‘Since social networks gained popularity extremely rapidly, there had been a debate as to whether social media was a fad. There are countless pieces of evidence now proving the contrary, among them the explosion in Twitter growth and Facebook’s public listing.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘As social is where consumers’ eyeballs are, businesses must take ownership of their online company profiles. By providing their customers with a place to share content, social media managers can monitor and track content which directly relates to their brand.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘Amongst high unemployment rates, a competitive job market and a shrinking global economy, the emerging social media industry only continues to grow.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘Certification programs for social media are blossoming as a response to the demand for more social media training. Both industry professionals and recent graduates are tapping into tactical training programs to help them stay up to date as the industry grows.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘Social media is the future, with employers recognizing they need to start hiring people with the right skills.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘While social media skills were once a ‘nice-to-have,’ accreditation in the space is becoming a requirement for many of these job titles. Hiring managers and job seekers are realizing that printing stacks of resumes is turning passe, and social media is rising as the new way of generating real-time networking opportunities.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘Social media teams tend to be decentralized – a motley mix of in-house experts, off-site consultants and international partners. The result: Confusion, rogue tweets, and off-message posts are almost inevitable. The worst gaffes live on in social media infamy.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘LinkedIn and Flickr, among other sites, have already proven freemium can generate revenue in the social media context.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘From its humble origins in college dorm rooms, social media has quietly crept into the boardroom.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘No surprise that, as companies have adopted social media en masse, demand for software and applications to manage and monitor social use has exploded.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘One of the ironies of a conference dedicated to all things digital and virtual is that the best ways to connect with people are surprisingly old-school. Social media tools can improve the odds of a serendipitous encounter at SXSW, but old-fashioned hustle, palm-pressing and – above all – creativity go a long way.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘Social media listening tools make it easy to track brand references and mentions, and these functions can still be handled ably by a small, dedicated team.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘For some people, staying grounded means doing yoga. For others, it’s spending time with family. Social media, too, can be a lifesaver.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘During the early days of HootSuite, when social media was still seen as a fad, I made the decision to treat our funding as if it were my personal bank account. That’s not to say I blew it on fast cars and fancy dinners. Exactly the opposite.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘I’d like to think my company HootSuite is anything but a stodgy old-boys’ club. As a social media company, our employees are by and large young, progressive and open-minded.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘Working with lots of old media clients, I’ve had a front-row seat on the ascension of new social players and the decline of traditional news outlets. And it’s clear to me that old media has an awful lot to learn from social media, in particular in five key areas: relevance, distribution, velocity, monetization, and user experience.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘Social media, for all of its limitations, is rarely irrelevant. The stream of updates on your Facebook page, for instance, is algorithmically engineered to be darn-near irresistible.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘The point is that instead of a monolithic brick of printed content – delivered more or less unchanged to all subscribers – social media offers news that is personalized and nimble.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘Importantly, companies are using social media to do things that go way beyond just chatting up existing customers on Facebook. Sales departments use social to nurture leads and close sales. HR posts job openings and vets applicants. Community and support squads mine networks, blogs and forums with deep listening tools.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘Not using social media in the workplace, in fact, is starting to make about as much sense as not using the phone or email.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘The growing role of enterprise social media, plus the growing budgets and authority of CMOs entrusted with choosing the best platforms, translates into an exciting future for apps that harness social potential for large companies.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘Social media has shaken up the world of sales, with Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter offering new ways to hound leads and unprecedented insights into clients.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘Customer service teams at many companies have already embraced social media, often out of necessity.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘For an older generation of employees, social media often remains misunderstood and underutilized.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘Social media marketers have already shown unusual savvy in executing campaigns in Brazil.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘Sales teams use social media to generate leads and track clients as they move through the sales funnel. Operations and distribution teams forecast supply chains, while research and development squads brainstorm product ideas.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘Social media has given companies access to unprecedented amounts of information on client behavior and preferences – so-called Big Data. But making sense of it all and turning it into actionable policy has been elusive.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘Payfirma has revolutionized the payment process, consolidating mobile, e-commerce and in-store payments under a single solution, much like HootSuite did for social media.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘Everyone’s like sheep on social media; like, one person starts making noise, and everyone’s like, ‘Hey, yeah!’ and then you got a whole bunch of people making noise at you.’ – Earl Sweatshirt

‘I don’t live my life seeking validation from people on social media.’ – Ricki-Lee Coulter

‘Personally I estimate about a third of my time is spent on author events, social media and traditional publicity.’ – Sara Sheridan

‘I think Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are the cornerstones of any social media strategy.’ – Chad Hurley

‘It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it’s the kind of thing that makes me feel like – even as it’s been bestowed upon me – I must continue to live up to what it means… Being the younger laureate in the age of social media is a new challenge.’ – Natasha Trethewey

‘Now, the term ‘friend’ is a little loose. People mock the ‘friending’ on social media, and say, ‘Gosh, no one could have 300 friends!’ Well, there are all kinds of friends. Those kinds of ‘friends,’ and work friends, and childhood friends, and dear friends, and neighborhood friends, and we-walk-our-dogs-at-the-same-time friends, etc.’ – Gretchen Rubin

‘Thanks to social media such as Facebook and Twitter, a far wider range of people take part in gathering, filtering and distributing news.’ – Lionel Barber

‘Personally, I’d love to see more social media firms develop business models that aren’t reliant on advertising. If you’re a social media firm selling ads, your goal is to get people to interrupt what they’re doing all day long so they come and stare at your service as much as possible.’ – Clive Thompson

‘Twitter became a major place to find out what was breaking on the Internet. Facebook became a place to share links. Social media really grew up.’ – Kevin Rose

‘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.’ – Ross Lynch

‘I’m not a gadget freak, so to say. I own an iPhone, which I love, and would sorely love to upgrade to MacBook Air from my current MacBook Pro. But what gets me going is the technology behind the gadgets, new websites, new apps. And I’m way too much into social media – FB, Twitter and Instagram are always open on my phone.’ – Shreya Ghoshal

‘I don’t engage in social media, which has its good and bad sides, I guess – but the good side is when people hate my guts, I’m kind of oblivious to it.’ – Hilarie Burton

‘In the world of Facebook and Twitter, you can treasure hunt for tidbits about somebody that you find interesting and pretty much find out everything you need to know – which is why I stay away from social media – I’m terrified of it.’ – Hilarie Burton

‘The place where I think social media fails is in showing the knowledge, the tradition of stitching the clothing, of cutting the fabric, of the tannery, of the skinning of the jewels – this knowledge needs respect. Online and social media is the future, but we need to learn from the past, too.’ – Giuseppe Zanotti

‘I think social media is so important; the young bands have certainly embraced that and used that to their advantage.’ – John Oates

‘I was really interested to see whether we could make predictions or forecasts by listening in on what people were saying on social media.’ – Noreena Hertz

‘I’ve become increasingly fascinated with social media to improve on traditional ways of preparing for and predicting the future.’ – Noreena Hertz

‘It’s going to be interesting to watch presidential elections in around 2040, when voters can dig up candidates’ teenage angst pics and posts from old social media and discussion forum archives.’ – Mikko Hypponen

‘The beauty of the space station, and of human spaceflight, is that it is now at a level of maturity where you can invite people on-board, which is what I worked so hard to do on social media and all the videos I made.’ – Chris Hadfield

‘Caricatured as navel-gazers, Millennials are said to live for their ‘likes’ and status updates. But the young people I know often leverage social media in selfless ways.’ – Chelsea Clinton

‘When I think about it, I do start to worry about this whole social media thing. It does make me uncomfortable; kids should be out, living their lives, getting out and enjoying themselves.’ – Liam Payne

‘On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn’t killing our children. It isn’t killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.’ – Warren Ellis

‘Social media has changed the world forever. We’re not going to go backwards. People are not going to accept being poor, accept being excluded anymore.’ – Jim Yong Kim

‘Every news organization needs a social media strategy.’ – Rebecca MacKinnon

‘Almost every week, there are stories in the press or on Chinese social media about what even the official Chinese media call ‘hot online topics:’ stories about how people in a particular village or town used Weibo to expose malfeasance by local or regional authorities.’ – Rebecca MacKinnon

‘The ‘Shawshank Redemption’ has nothing to do with China, but that hasn’t kept social media censors from blocking the movie’s title from searches on the country’s most popular Twitter-like microblogging service, Weibo.’ – Rebecca MacKinnon

‘Social media can connect you with other people in so many wonderful ways – but it can also make you really sick of yourself.’ – Jami Attenberg

‘I don’t think journalism changes. It’s about digging into stories and telling them well. The basic tenets of great reporting stay the same while things around it change. Technology has made reporting easier, but it has also caused job loss. Social media has increased discussion around topics, but it has its own challenges at times.’ – Soledad O’Brien

‘The sports space is so full of opinion that you aren’t hearing from the athletes just speaking for themselves. We are such a Twitter-oriented society with radio talk shows, TV talk shows and social media – what you are missing is the authentic, unfiltered aspect of who these people are.’ – Hannah Storm

‘I’ve been on, like, the forefront of social media. I run all my own pages, and this is back to MySpace and answering my own emails in, like, 2006. Even before that, I always had websites with emails that dropped directly to me.’ – Thomas Ian Nicholas

‘The network made me join Twitter. I am very scared of social media, and I don’t know how to use it, so it’s kind of trial and error.’ – Jay Ryan

‘It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.’ – Barton Gellman

‘I try not to live my life on my phone or my social media pages.’ – Jane Levy

‘I think a lot of people get lost. They start following iconic figures and get drowned in the pool of celebrity. Our society, as we know it, is definitely changing. With social media and cell phones, you freak out when you don’t know what’s going on.’ – Israel Broussard

‘When I think about privacy on social media sites, there’s kind of the usual suspect problems, which doesn’t make them any less important or severe; it’s just we kind of know their shape, and we kind of know how we’re going to solve them.’ – Jonathan Zittrain

‘As humans embrace new forms of social media to keep connected with friends and colleagues, our robots are becoming increasingly sociable.’ – Ken Goldberg

‘Social media is a really cool way to tell your story to people who are interested in hearing it. It’s not getting put through the filter of a television executive who’s decided you’re too old to justify the expenditure.’ – Greg Behrendt

‘I’m not trying to live a social media life or a life to just be in a magazine.’ – Tika Sumpter

‘I like to stay in touch with the fans via social media a lot. I really get involved through Twitter and Instagram, if anyone wants to see what I’m doing.’ – Edy Ganem

‘As smartphones have allowed us to have our computers, emails, social media feeds, and a full surveillance system in our pockets at all times, stories of the law enforcement’s unease with that have been popping up in the press. And of course, the ones that become viral videos aren’t exactly flattering for law enforcement.’ – Sarah Lacy

‘I am a huge fan of using social media to connect with people because I think there was this ‘ivory tower’ aspect of journalism where people might read a byline for years but have no idea about the person who was behind it and never get to communicate with them or ask them a question.’ – Sarah Lacy

‘One of the great ironies of the social media era is that some of the least social people in the world created it.’ – Sarah Lacy

‘I’m trying to embrace social media because it gives artists a little more power than we’ve had in the past.’ – Billy Porter

‘Everybody’s entitled to their opinions, but I don’t understand why we have to saturate social media with all the negative stuff.’ – Megan Hilty

‘I think fans have an outlet. Through social media, you can hear them.’ – Jim Rash

‘Somewhere along the way, when we were building social media products, we forgot the reason we like to communicate with our friends is because it’s fun.’ – Evan Spiegel

‘Social media is about friending someone so they’ll invite you to a party or get you a job. If that’s the work, Snapchat is the playground.’ – Evan Spiegel

‘The feed was probably the biggest innovation in social media of late. But the interesting thing about a feed is that the more content you consume, the farther in time you go.’ – Evan Spiegel

‘Traditional social media, in the view of our company, has become a bit repetitive. It doesn’t feel very good to be marketed to by your friends. Snapchat is different because it says, look, friends aren’t valuable to you just because they can get you into a cool party.’ – Evan Spiegel

‘Twitter is awesome to share news with fans, but I would never choose to only have social media and put everything in my life on display.’ – Sarah Hyland

‘The social media bit is really about documenting process. I like the dialogue if it’s constructive, but I’m now at a crossroads. I’ve accumulated a lot of followers, and it’s great, but I’m also at that teetering point where people are feeling themselves a little too much, commenting a little too much.’ – Toyin Odutola

‘The future is in photos for social media. More and more people are not reading, so I try to attach a photo to most Tweets.’ – Tyra Banks

‘The no-secrets era of social media makes one consider the built-in risk factor of nominating high-testosterone men to positions of power at all. Everyone is under too much scrutiny now to take a chance on candidates who suddenly blow up into a comic meme, a punchline, a ribald hashtag.’ – Tina Brown

‘The viral power of online media has proven how fast creative ideas can be spread and adopted, using tools like cellphones, digital cameras, micro-credit, mobile banking, Facebook, and Twitter. A perfect example? The way the Green Movement in Iran caught fire thanks to social media.’ – Tina Brown

‘The record labels used to spend money on advertising, and social media has replaced that entirely – it’s putting magazines out of business. It’s put big companies into completely reinventing their strategies.’ – Steve Aoki

‘For me, I guess the general reason for using social media is that the connection I have with people who are interested in my music is extremely important to me. That connection is like the pillar in everything I do. I want to embrace that connection and make it stronger.’ – Steve Aoki

‘Some of my fans don’t really like it when I respond to people who say things that are trying to be hurtful on social media. But I think it’s kind of funny. There’s a lot of things that make me laugh, that people would try and say those things. I mean, there’s some that I can’t even retweet or respond to just because of how bad it is.’ – Rickie Fowler

‘The entertainment world, television, movies, social media, YouTube stuff, we’re so bombarded with so much imagery and such a great sense of inhumanity, and there is a coarseness, a coarsening of interaction.’ – Steven Bochco

‘I have mixed feelings about how fast things are changing as a result of technology. There’s no denying that through technology there are amazing things being created that help people with diseases or help people’s dreams come true. But there’s also this obsession. Social media is the most dangerous of them all.’ – Amanda Crew

‘I don’t tweet or do any other social media, so I don’t know what’s being said out there.’ – Jane Elliot

‘I by no means quit social media.’ – Ashley Wagner

‘I think the great thing about social media is it gives people access to you on a totally personal level that they didn’t have before, so it’s really important, and it’s a great way to get people involved and excited about what you’re doing.’ – Ashley Wagner

‘It’s interesting now; with social media, you are actually interacting with fans.’ – Andie MacDowell

‘There seems to be no limit to the exciting possibilities that come from combining technical innovations, the Internet, and social media.’ – Mohamed El-Erian

‘In an age when many of our citizens casually reveal information about themselves in social media wildly beyond anything imaginable only a decade ago, it would seem to be a useful exercise in civics to re-educate the public about the value and purpose of protecting against unwarranted government intrusion.’ – Richard Ben-Veniste

‘With social media, with Instagram and selfies and all these apps that are trying to make you look perfect… it’s hard for girls to grow up nowadays with all that stuff.’ – Meghan Trainor

‘We use social media as an adjunct to my total media/market outreach.’ – Jeffrey Gitomer

‘My readers and my audiences have turned into my followers. They are more than interested in what I have to say in the subjects of sales, loyalty, attitude, networking, business social media, and becoming a trusted advisor.’ – Jeffrey Gitomer

‘I come from a theater background, and if you’re doing a play, your audience is right there, and you’re able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that’s a way to bridge that gap.’ – Samira Wiley

‘Through social media, young people are constantly being pinged about a whole slew of potentially better matches or social activities.’ – Robin Marantz Henig

‘The world is changing so quickly, and actors now have this huge platform of social media to interact with their audiences, but I choose not to have a social media footprint. I’m old-school like that.’ – Natalie Dormer

‘Social media is so influential now.’ – Rita Ora

‘Twitter and social media have so changed the game for filmmakers, but especially for artists. It shrinks the world and gives chance to feel like they know you. But it’s a blessing and a curse. It can help build you up, but there’s also such anonymity.’ – Gina Prince-Bythewood

‘Social media reactions to celebrity death have taken on a predictable pattern: an outpouring of shock with expressions of grief, followed by a ghoulish need to know all the details, to see the scene of the death and the family in mourning. Then a post-mortem dissection of all the perceived flaws the celebrity had.’ – Jennifer Armintrout

‘The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media and marketing tools they have mastered to empower less fortunate women and direct them onto career tracks that women have traditionally avoided, like science and technology.’ – Gail Sheehy

‘Fundly is at the dynamic intersection of high-growth technology startups, social entrepreneurship, and the exploding world of social media. Kapor Capital is proud to back this passionate team, their product, and Fundly’s impressive customer base.’ – Mitch Kapor

‘Social media is social. We’re looking to touch one heart at a time. With one great story at a time.’ – Shawn Amos

‘In social media, people cannot build big followings organically unless what they are putting out to the world has value.’ – Barry Ritholtz

‘Writing one’s first novel, getting it sold, and shepherding it through the labyrinths of editing, production, marketing, journalism, and social media is an arduous and nerve-wracking process.’ – Paul Di Filippo

‘Most of the serious disagreement I get comes through email or social media, where people are more comfortable.’ – Roxane Gay

‘After the Boston Marathon bombings, people shared grief and outrage on social media.’ – Roxane Gay

‘Thanks to social media like Facebook, Twitter and Goodreads, I can easily reach out to so many people. Being a writer gives me the added bonus of a targeted audience: readers, who enjoy targeted ‘prizes’ for participation in fundraisers – books and other neat promo items.’ – Lori Foster

‘Sharing is the essence of social media.’ – Zoe Sugg

‘The USA marketing team are geniuses at what they do. They do the right kind of thing for every medium. They’re very active on social media; they’re releasing videos every day up to the premiere.’ – Lennon Parham

‘I’ve never really been into social media – I don’t have a Facebook; I don’t do Twitter or Instagram or anything.’ – Banks

‘It’s funny because everyone says, ‘Oh you’re reclusive; you don’t do social media,’ but it’s not about being reclusive. I like direct contact, and I like contact that’s purposeful.’ – Banks

‘I’m pretty much on all social media, but Instagram is the coolest, and I use it the most because I take a lot of pictures and I like to post them, but I link them all to each one.’ – Lexi Thompson

‘With social media, you have this new kind of way to communicate with people that’s very immediate, sometimes alarmingly so, sometimes painfully so. If you could just hold some objectivity, a very direct, unfiltered, raw reflection of the way something is landing in the culture without any spin, or filtration, or anything, it’s very raw.’ – Mark Ruffalo

‘My true social media passion is making creepy short movies on Instagram.’ – Jenny Lewis

‘It’s amazing how directly you can connect with people via social media.’ – Sophia Amoruso

‘Preconceived judgments. I think we’re all guilty of it. I judge other people even though I get judged myself. It’s such a disease and gets spread so much through social media.’ – Suki Waterhouse

‘I admit that I look at my social media when I’m killing time, like on a plane and such. It’s just less embarrassing getting caught on Twitter than getting caught playing Candy Crush.’ – Anna Kendrick

‘Social media, for me, is about interacting with people who follow my career. I don’t think my relationship has anything to do with my career.’ – Brittany Snow

‘Now with social media, people essentially come into my living room, my virtual living room, and tell me everything that is wrong with me.’ – Jen Lancaster

‘I just thank God my husband and I found each other before the advent of social media. I can’t imagine dating someone and seeing what they’re doing on their Facebook page. And people breaking up with each other over texts now? We had to break up with each other face to face back then.’ – Jen Lancaster

‘The first phase of social media was listening to the conversation. The second phase was joining the conversation. The third phase will be hosting the conversation on your site.’ – Jason Calacanis

‘I think everyone should have social media – all young people, at least.’ – Ansel Elgort

‘I absolutely should be on social media, and I think every person who’s an influencer should be, and should be doing good things.’ – Ansel Elgort

‘Technology moves so fast and social media moves so fast because everyone wants the new thing, but also, everyone wants to be where their parents are not. Once the mom got a Facebook and a Twitter and an Instagram, I don’t want to be there anymore.’ – Ansel Elgort

‘The image of myself that I give on social media isn’t actually who I am; it’s not 100 percent me, obviously.’ – Ansel Elgort

‘Social media is not only the most important tool for inciting terrorists, it can also be an effective weapon against them.’ – Kurt Eichenwald

‘I think there are a lot of really positive aspects to social media for novelists. Even though our work is pretty solitary, through Twitter and Tumblr and Facebook and Instagram and blogging in general, we’re better able to connect directly with readers.’ – Holly Black

‘As for my identity within the context of New York nightlife? I left in the ’90s, so I’m not part of the scene anymore. I’ll always be interested in what’s happening downtown, and I try and keep up with the changing faces on social media.’ – James St. James

‘Ten years ago, you wrote a book and you never expected to find out anything about the author. Now with social media, everyone wants that connection. I think our readers want to be invited into our lives and brought on the journey and be part of this whole process.’ – Jane Green

‘My e-books sales have overtaken everything else, so I think all the marketing has become very much driven by the author now because of social media.’ – Jane Green

‘I’ve learned from numerous sources that e-mail marketing is still far more effective in driving book sales than social media. That’s why we all get those e-mail blasts from Amazon every morning.’ – Teresa Medeiros

‘Because of social media, we have a lot of personal essays floating around; you see them on Facebook: everyone’s either reading them or writing them. Some of them are great; some of them are diary entries put forth as essays.’ – Meghan Daum

‘Social media, despite its reputation as the ultimate agent of self-promotion, actually feeds on self-loathing.’ – Meghan Daum

‘I’m not good with blogs and social networks because those things come and go. By the time I am used to one thing, a new type of social media is already trending.’ – Tao Okamoto

‘There is a continuous stream of opinions on governance issues expressed daily, not only in our Parliament and in the print media, but also on talk-radio and social media.’ – Anthony Carmona

‘I am a nonparticipant of social media. I’m not much attracted to anything that involves the willing forfeiture of privacy and the foregrounding of insignificance.’ – Billy Collins

‘I have a private Instagram and an official one, so I’m not opposed to social media.’ – Dylan Penn

‘There can be a lot of pressure on girls to dress the way they wouldn’t normally dress: on social media, at school, among friends.’ – Bindi Irwin

‘If you’re trying to write about what the Chinese people are talking about, you can sometimes get a distorted picture if you go online and look at the conversation on social media.’ – Evan Osnos

‘I don’t look at Instagram. I don’t have much to do with social media.’ – Iris Apfel

‘Weak passwords are a crook’s best friend. Make yours long and complex, and change them often – not just on your bank account but on your email and social media, too.’ – Jean Chatzky

‘One of the most delightful parts of being a writer is connecting with people via social media. I devote ten minutes out of every writing hour to Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and other sites. I don’t use assistants for that. It’s me and all of my friends, fans, readers, and colleagues on the crazyboat.’ – Jonathan Maberry

‘Of all the questions I get asked as an undocumented immigrant in the United States, there are two – asked in various permutations via email, social media or in person – that chill me to the bone: ‘Why don’t you just make yourself legal?’ And: ‘Why don’t you get in the back of the line?” – Jose Antonio Vargas

‘Social media has allowed groups, such as ISIL, to use the Internet to spot and assess potential recruits. With the widespread horizontal distribution of social media, terrorists can identify vulnerable individuals of all ages in the United States – spot, assess, recruit, and radicalize – either to travel or to conduct a homeland attack.’ – James Comey

‘ISIL’s widespread reach through the Internet and social media is most concerning, as the group has proven dangerously competent at employing such tools for its nefarious strategy. ISIL uses high-quality, traditional media platforms as well as widespread social media campaigns to propagate its extremist ideology.’ – James Comey

‘The political system is broke. It doesn’t matter who the leader is if you are frozen in time and your hands are tied. Social media is so strong that minority groups get a huge say.’ – Gerry Harvey

‘Once you’ve worked as a writer and editor in the world of social media for a decade, the way I have, you start to notice patterns.’ – Annalee Newitz

‘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.’ – Annalee Newitz

‘Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It’s hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.’ – M. J. Rose

‘It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking our careers will come to a standstill, or worse, crash and burn if we aren’t social media butterflies.’ – M. J. Rose

‘Independent content these days can be more successful than previously because of the power of social media. However, there are still systems in place to make sure independent artists don’t get as far as signed ones.’ – Lilly Singh

‘Social media allows comics to bypass the gatekeepers and connect directly with people who will want to come see them.’ – Paul Provenza

‘I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.’ – Daisy Ridley

‘We always say we are a brand for our fans because through social media we’re so lucky to see what people are asking us for, what they’re looking for, and so we really design what we like but also take our fans in mind.’ – Kourtney Kardashian

‘Social media give me the privilege of learning about more people than I could meet in my whole life. Taken together, the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot, though.’ – Victor LaValle

‘If you publish something in traditional media, it’s one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.’ – Ma Jun

‘I am stunned by how much time and effort I must spend marketing my book and interacting with my readers. With social media, you don’t just publish a book and figure you’ve done your part; your fans want to talk to you, have a conversation.’ – W. Bruce Cameron

‘I’m a person who always wanted to turn my life into an archive. Social media made my dream come true.’ – Dara Horn

‘I’m a pretty early adopter of social media. There’s a whole subculture to it. I’m smart enough not to tweet things out of emotion.’ – Jon Favreau

‘You’re on set for 15 hours, and then you go home and make sure you’re posting the right stuff on social media, and then you answer your e-mails. It never stops.’ – Gigi Hadid

‘I’ve always said that I feel lucky to live in the era of social media and be a working model in this time. Back in the day, models were just another face. But social media has given people a voice and not just another face. Not only can you show the world your personality and stuff like that, but you can be a brand ambassador easily.’ – Gigi Hadid

‘When I graduated from college, I got a 9-to-5 traditional job doing social media for a company, and I’d spend all day long fighting with the system of getting things approved and the fact that social media has such a quick turnaround. Things had to be very reactive and instant.’ – Tyler Oakley

‘Narcissism has existed for a long time; social media is just a new outlet to express it. Anybody who is going to record themselves and put that on the Internet, hoping people will watch, there is a degree to which that exists, yeah. I don’t know if I would call myself a narcissist. I don’t necessarily identify with that label.’ – Tyler Oakley

‘I think social media has amplified a lot of voices that maybe traditional media hasn’t perfectly portrayed.’ – Tyler Oakley

‘I started homeschooling when I was 13. I wasn’t really doing the social media thing yet; I didn’t have any fans, but I knew that public school wasn’t the place for me. It was draining my creativity, and so both my parents supported me in being homeschooled, and they really gave me a chance to focus on getting good at guitar.’ – Jacob Whitesides

‘I do think that ‘Pretty Little Liars’ has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.’ – Laura Leighton

‘With social media, people share mostly their best moments. Don’t feel like you’re not doing enough when you see a mom posting about making applesauce after you bought it. Ha ha! It’s fine! Just for raising a little human being, you should be commended.’ – Vanessa Lachey

‘With every social media, there’s hate and things like that.’ – Ed Oxenbould

‘I really have paid no attention to social media. It’s never been something that I’ve done. There are people that put up tour dates and basically say what’s going on, but I need to get more involved, because I hear about rumors that are absolutely ridiculous.’ – Scott Weiland

‘You can either allow social media to be helpful for you or it can be harmful. I like to let it be helpful.’ – Ciara

‘Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you’re being watched.’ – Patrick Kane

‘When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.’ – Narendra Modi

‘Without social media, I’d probably just be a quirky, amateur photographer with a hard drive full of photos. I’d be cold calling respected publications, begging for a feature.’ – Brandon Stanton

‘Social media is an ever-changing world. You want to be ready if a certain platform becomes red-hot, and you don’t want someone else taking your company name as his or her handle. That does happen!’ – Michelle Phan

‘Part of having a social media strategy is being smart about whom you follow. Ask yourself who is important to your company or brand. Figure out who needs to know you exist.’ – Michelle Phan

‘I think social media has taken over for our generation. It’s a big part of our lives, and it’s kind of sad.’ – Kendall Jenner

‘To be honest, what I struggled with in my degree is what’s so helpful when it comes to social media in that I lack focus. I’ll start reading about evolutionary biology and end up on quantum physics. While that makes writing your dissertation very difficult, for a page like IFLS, that’s amazing because I get a wide range of everything.’ – Elise Andrew

‘Every brand has something on the Internet, whether it’s video or doing something on social media. It’s just another form that brands are starting to realize they have to be a part of.’ – Anthony Padilla

‘While commercials interrupt consumers’ enjoyment of a TV program, social media allows video to enter the conversation between friends in a non-intrusive way with an opt-in choice.’ – Jay Samit

‘Consumers value their personal time and are loyal to those companies that make their lives more productive. Brands gaining some of the biggest successes in social media are engaging with millions of consumers through value exchange.’ – Jay Samit

‘Social media and personalization are providing both brand advertisers and end-users with hyper-targeted choices and opportunities for double-digit growth.’ – Jay Samit

‘We live in a culture where everyone’s opinion, view, and assessment of situations and people spill across social media, a lot of it anonymously, much of it shaped by mindless meanness and ignorance.’ – Mike Barnicle

‘I’ve yet to see a correlation in my industry between great social media and great numbers.’ – Mickey Drexler

‘I’m becoming more and more of a social media participant, so of course I can always be found everywhere from Twitter to Insta to Facebook.’ – Aeriel Miranda

‘The 24/7 nature of online debate, on the web and across social media, has allowed for more vibrant discussion of the opinions we publish – and your own.’ – Andrew Rosenthal

‘It’s a huge mistake not to embrace social media. We need to stay in touch and stay relevant to young people.’ – Brian L. Roberts

‘When mom and dad were at the height of their careers, and things were super-crazy, and they couldn’t leave their houses, there wasn’t social media. It was all about autographs. Now, everyone’s the press. I feel fame is perforated: it can be glorious, but it can completely destroy a human, too.’ – Dakota Johnson

‘All of us in social media and regular media, we’re all competing for the same thing, which is this gap between something happening in the world and you knowing about it.’ – Kevin Systrom

‘I first started using social media when I was 12 or something – not publicly; I had private accounts.’ – Lily-Rose Depp

‘I’m very specific about what I put out on social media about myself. But that’s also why I like social media: because it feels like the only thing that I have to control my own image.’ – Lily-Rose Depp

‘I would be much less stressed out without social media. I am constantly afraid of getting hacked. It’s like being afraid of stepping on glass.’ – Lily-Rose Depp

‘When we look at social media, we really look at it on a continuum, and the continuum is from accumulation to instant expression.’ – Evan Spiegel

‘Social media is here to stay, and the social phenomenon that is bringing this about is consumers’ willingness to share more about themselves, share more about what they’re doing… people are even willing to disclose where they’re at. And this phenomenon is going to create huge commerce opportunities on the web.’ – Ron Conway

‘I don’t think I would be here in an interview if YouTube wasn’t in existence, if social media hadn’t been developed, or if these platforms for artists to promote and develop their own careers hadn’t become available.’ – Ryan Lewis

‘Most of my friends are in the industry – photographers, models, stylists, and social media kids.’ – Lucky Blue Smith

‘My hip-hop fans are a little spoiled – they want a particular level of lyricism and energy that I’m known for. When they don’t get that, it takes a little time for them to open up to it. But electronic fans are as free as the music. On social media, they were so excited and loud; they’re in awe.’ – Pusha T

‘Although my values and my morals are old-school, you have to kind of key into the landscape of social media and how the world is progressing. I’d be a fool to sit there and go, ‘Yeah, let’s use the telephone to telemarket myself’… Social media is something that I definitely have to tap into, to another demographic.’ – Sebastian Maniscalco

‘You really can’t spend money on social media unless you really try. Social media is really more about effort than expense.’ – Guy Kawasaki

‘AdNectar specializes in deploying branded virtual items across top social networking properties and applications. Virtual items are images sent to communicate a message between users of social media.’ – Nir Eyal

‘Every sector of society looks at digital analytics in a productive way. Limiting my ability to use them is just unacceptable. And by the way, Congress conducts polls using traditional methods. No one is using social media analytics as a substitute for that.’ – Cory Booker

‘When we embraced social media, we took more control of the Newark narrative. We increased responsiveness toward residents. We drew more of our constituents in to participate in government and improve our cities.’ – Cory Booker

‘Social media affords me an opportunity to interact with fans on a daily basis, not just for a few seconds apiece at a science-fiction convention.’ – George Takei

‘Social media is natural to me, and it’s a very immediate way of saying something. It’s the way politics are done these days. In modern politics, you can’t ignore that even if you wanted to. I can’t imagine doing politics without it.’ – Nicola Sturgeon

‘It’s very much the currency of discourse on social media where political disagreements very quickly become very personalised.’ – Nicola Sturgeon

‘My contention is that most students get distracted by music and social media because our current state of education is not sufficiently engaging to command their full attention.’ – Thomas Frey

‘I don’t do social media.’ – Ian McShane

‘Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.’ – Obiageli Ezekwesili

‘I am making use of social media as a marketing tool. It’s a great way to market yourself and your projects. It’s a free marketing tool.’ – CeCe Peniston

‘Social media companies are a gold rush today, and time will tell if they survive. I have no use for them and can’t see why people waste time on them. I much prefer physical meeting with true friends, so have never used the service.’ – James H. Clark

‘I’m not on social media because I feel like that would be just such another level of responsibility that I don’t feel up to. It’s not uncommon now to have personal and public intertwined, and I don’t know how people are able to manage that. I don’t know where you go when you want to be alone if everything is out there.’ – Ellie Kemper

‘Social media is interesting. It helps me connect with fans. It’s immediate. It’s a big part of my touring business – getting the word out via Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.’ – Hannibal Buress

‘You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I’m not really on social media. I’ve been able to live in a bit of a black hole.’ – Rachel McAdams

‘People are mean on social media, whoever you are. It’s a shame people have to be that way.’ – Victoria Beckham

‘In 1998, there was no social media. People were barely on the Internet. So I had no input from fans at all. Zero.’ – Diane English

‘Unfortunately, we have seen terrorist groups use social media to spread hateful propaganda, to recruit members, and to incite violence with alarming effectiveness.’ – Ted Deutch

‘Social media companies must work closely with the U.S. government to ensure their platforms are not being used by terrorist organizations to do harm to our country.’ – Ted Deutch

‘We’re dealing with an enemy now, ISIS, that has a very sophisticated social media program.’ – Michael McCaul

‘I think it’s important to note that after the airstrikes began in Iraq and Syria, ISIS began a very aggressive social media campaign calling for these types of attacks, these lone wolf attacks.’ – Michael McCaul

‘Now we’re dealing with a younger generation of terrorists that are very, very savvy with computer skills, very savvy over the Internet, and very savvy with social media of the likes that we have never seen before.’ – Michael McCaul

‘What is our capability when someone posts a public social media posting that says that they’re going to conduct attacks on the United States on behalf of the Islamic State. Why can’t we pick up that information and then stop that act of terror?’ – Michael McCaul

‘Social media campaigns and the savviness of ISIS and propaganda is what greatly concerns us Homeland Security officials.’ – Michael McCaul

‘Here’s what we should be doing. We should be monitoring every mosque. We should be monitoring social media. We’ve got about three million Muslims in the United States.’ – Paul Nehlen

‘Most of our fans don’t get to interact with us or know our personalities except through social media.’ – Simone Biles

‘The kids are fixing their eyes on social media, and the stories they’re looking at may not be the most important things. I’m guilty of that, too. Do you want to look at Instagram or the news? It’s a difficult, and weird, situation.’ – Selena Gomez

‘When I did ‘Jerry Springer: The Opera,’ there was a big fuss, largely centered around the misrepresentation of its content. Had Twitter existed then, that would have been over in a week because people who had actually seen it would have been able to get control of the story through social media.’ – Stewart Lee

‘I have an amazing social media manager, Allison Peters, who is one of my closest friends since childhood.’ – Kerry Washington

‘I was doing a little modeling on the side. Then ‘ANTM’ found me on social media, and it pretty much flipped my life around, all for the better.’ – Nyle DiMarco

‘I used to share my everyday life on the first social media platforms, and I had a pretty big following.’ – Chiara Ferragni

‘I believe that if I wasn’t born in this technological and ‘social media’ era, I would have found another way to express myself.’ – Chiara Ferragni

‘I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.’ – Flume

‘I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.’ – Aurora

‘I’m getting criticism on social media, saying, ‘Ah, you ducked Shane Mosley.’ I’ve never ducked anyone in my life. They need to look into it a bit more.’ – Liam Smith

‘What doesn’t allow us to move forward because when we simply – and I’ve seen it on social media; it really, really upsets me – is to get in our corners and call names and turn our back to each other.’ – Benjamin Watson

‘The thing that’s wonderful about social media is that we are able to give a voice to the voiceless and to help educate each other. I benefit from it as much as I provide those lessons.’ – Olivia Wilde

‘I read so many things because a colleague or a friend will post something, and I’ll be able to learn a tremendous amount only because they drew attention to it. So I try to do that for others, and that’s the great thing about social media. It’s not always a narcissistic cesspool or waste of time.’ – Olivia Wilde

‘I’m skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.’ – Victoria Justice

‘You have to be really careful with what you put out on social media and who you’re talking to online.’ – Victoria Justice

‘I decided a long time ago to be unfiltered and wholly myself in these areas of social media. I’ve been very happy with the results of this decision. I feel that I get lots of interaction and loyal support. So I’m grateful for my Twitter and Facebook followers every day.’ – Rae Carson

‘ISIL, AQ, now have the ability to literally reach into our homeland through social media, through the Internet, to recruit and inspire. It makes for a more complicated homeland security environment. And so it requires a whole of government approach, not just military and law enforcement, homeland security, aviation security, and the like.’ – Jeh Johnson

‘Everybody wants to be a celebrity, which is why we have this phenomenon of social media, where nobody wants to be private. We all want to be seen.’ – Marc Jacobs

‘The Arab Spring is kind of a perfect model for how people are going to use technology to act collectively in their own interest in the future. There’s never been a revolution that was coordinated by social media to the degree that the Arab Spring was.’ – Palmer Luckey

‘Julia, I promise to love you, to cherish you, in sickness and in health. No matter what, I will be there for you and our family. I promise not to make the social media another member of our family.’ – Martina Navratilova

‘There is this idea that your social media platform is the secret to success, but no one has quite proven that to be true, if you ask me.’ – Kevin Bacon

‘Twitter and Tumblr and Vine and Instagram and Facebook and Myspace, all these things are social media tools that we were all told we had to have, and what we’re realizing is that, no you don’t! No you don’t.’ – Alec Baldwin

‘I recognize that it often serves competitors best to talk past each other – especially when you are trying to claim the fleeting attentions of voters on a debate stage or on social media. But think how much more clarity we could get if the people who wanted to be president clearly explained why he or she is the better choice.’ – Gwen Ifill

‘As someone who asks questions for a living, there are few things that annoy me more than people who won’t ask for themselves. Social media is a great help, but so is something as simple as turning on your television or powering up your laptop to watch a smart news show.’ – Gwen Ifill

‘People are always telling you you’re done. Someone’s always telling you that, especially now in the day of social media.’ – Billy Crystal

‘It’s amazing how much information we share in social media, then we wonder why people steal our identity.’ – Frank Abagnale

‘Too many of us are vulnerable, and I look forward to working with AARP to advise people about the safest ways to conduct their financial transactions and manage social media.’ – Frank Abagnale

‘While I am very grateful for the role social media plays in my ability to interact so personally with my fans, I also see time and time again how it negatively affects social relationships of the younger generation.’ – Ryan McCartan

‘I can sometimes feel like I’m an aggressive man inside. I’m not going to show that on social media.’ – Tali Lennox

‘Fashion’s a huge part of my life, but I don’t necessarily feel comfortable always talking about clothes on my personal social media.’ – Alexa Chung

‘I played at different restaurants with my dad for a good year before I started doing anything on social media. I wanted to hone my craft before I put anything out there.’ – Jacob Whitesides

‘Proud parents document the arrival and growth of their future CIA officer in all forms of social media that the world can access for decades to come.’ – David Petraeus

‘I’m heartened that, for the first time, we’re seeing some of the Internet Service Providers and the social media sites taking action against the Islamic State. That’s the kind of initiative that can very, very much augment on an industrial scale what the government is trying to do.’ – David Petraeus

‘Whether it’s singing, modeling, acting, you name it, they always label you as the YouTuber, the social media kid, the social media star. It’s something that I’ve heard – a lot – but I kind of just put it to the side.’ – Kian Lawley

‘I get referred to as the social media kid on set, but I don’t let it bother me. I try not to.’ – Kian Lawley

‘Social media stars are kind of taking the traditional route, like movies.’ – Kian Lawley

‘The Nazis and the Khmer Rouge went to great lengths to hide their crimes against humanity. Instead, ISIS posts its many crimes on social media for global distribution with seemingly no thoughts for the consequences.’ – Peter Bergen

‘I’m just not a messy person… I don’t look for pleasure in social media.’ – Tyga

‘I have no idea how to use social media for anything other than forwarding a good fart joke.’ – Nia Vardalos

‘Despite my high profile on social media, I’m a private person.’ – Blac Chyna

‘False news, when combined with social media, can wreak havoc thanks to its potential of reaching millions in a short span. The effects can be quite disturbing.’ – Fabrizio Moreira

‘A writers’ ring is where a group of four or five authors agree to promote each other’s work on their own websites and via their social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter.’ – Fabrizio Moreira

‘In terms of social media, I try to have my voice heard loudly in the cacophony of other influences whether from television and the Internet or social media… I want my voice to be heard in terms of the standards and values that I try to pass on to my kids.’ – Alan Thicke

‘ISIL particularly is very slick, very sophisticated, proselytizing and recruiting, and they are very astute users of social media.’ – James Clapper

‘To say I like social media is an understatement.’ – Eva Chen

‘The new generation of designers, like Prabal Gurung and Alexander Wang, have hundreds of thousands following them on social media who will probably never be able to afford their dresses but still feel a loyalty to them. So when that designer writes a book or launches a beauty line, they might pick that up.’ – Eva Chen

‘This must be such a relief for the TV executives managing a business in decline, suffering from a thousand cuts from social media and other new platforms. Trump arrived on the scene as a kind of manna from hell.’ – Campbell Brown

‘We’re surrounded by distractions. Whether it’s emails, phone calls, text messages, social media notifications, or people entering and leaving your workspace, those distractions end up eating a good portion of your time.’ – John Rampton

‘While social media is a one of the best tools to spread brand awareness, network, stay updated on the latest industry news, and catch up with friends or family, it’s another huge time waster.’ – John Rampton

‘When it comes to brands and having the opportunity to be an entrepreneur, social media has really become a great outlet for people to become their own boss.’ – Christina Milian

‘Maybe I need to make a change, or maybe it’s living here in New York or using social media or working in media and entertainment, but I feel like I’m constantly trying to maintain this sense of, ‘Why do I do what I do?” – Tavi Gevinson

‘I think social media is an interesting beast – you can’t get too caught up in it. People can get caught up in it sometimes, but I think it’s important to live in the present and not on the computer screen.’ – Banks

‘Social media overwhelms me.’ – Banks

‘I can’t say I’m a full-on gamer, since, basically, I just don’t have time for it. I know nowadays, gaming can be a lot like social media. People just stay on it all day long. Like they’re logged into the Matrix. But yeah, I enjoy it. When I get the time.’ – Roman Reigns

‘I’ve got a different life. I live up on a farm; I don’t have anything to do with social media.’ – Jeffrey Dean Morgan

‘I am not in the least eloquent or fluent with languages. My writing on social media is quite pedestrian. But even if it was near any acceptability, I would not be in a position to pen a script or a book.’ – Amitabh Bachchan

‘Law enforcement has seen an unprecedented use of social media by ISIL. They’re just kind of flooding the airwaves.’ – Dana Boente

‘Donald Trump can take his message directly to the people via rallies and addresses carried over social media. I’d call them updated versions of Roosevelt’s fireside chats, but a portion of my younger readership doesn’t even know what a radio is thanks to a Democrat-run education system.’ – Milo Yiannopoulos

‘Shallow emotions. An incapacity to feel genuine love. A need for stimulation. Frequent verbal outbursts. Poor behavioural controls. These are just some of the things that social media are encouraging in all of us. They’re also a pretty comprehensive diagnostic checklist for sociopathy – in fact, that’s where I got the list.’ – Milo Yiannopoulos

‘Re-election comes every six years, which explains why I spend so much time on Twitter. If you’re an obscure judge whose name ID hovers between infinitesimal and zilch, it’s political malpractice to neglect social media. I’m probably the tweetingest judge in America, which, admittedly, is like being the tallest Munchkin in Oz.’ – Don Willett

‘I’m sad, upset, and disheartened with the trolling that happens on social media… At the end of the day, this whole homophobia is so disheartening and upsetting. And then they say, ‘Why don’t you speak about your sexuality? You could be iconic in this country.’ But I don’t want to be iconic anywhere. I want to live my life.’ – Karan Johar

‘Media is not supporting me. They’re saying that I want to marry Imran Khan, but I’m already married. This is wrong. What about my self-worth? My identity? I am a social media sensation. I am a fashion icon.’ – Qandeel Baloch

‘I am not hungry for roles on TV or in films. I am happy being a social media sensation.’ – Qandeel Baloch

‘There was never a game plan to be on social media. Like most things in life, if you work consistently and at your pace, then things fall into place.’ – Twinkle Khanna

‘I think social media is good for promotion, stuff like that, but people are so negative. People are too negative. If you read the comments, it’s just too negative.’ – Rafael dos Anjos

‘Social media can be dangerous. People hide behind their computers and write negative things, so I like to keep it about communicating with my fans.’ – Mo Farah

‘People can be too harsh, especially with social media. It brings a person down.’ – Deontay Wilder

‘My heritage is Pakistani, and I have loads of Pakistani fans on social media who I would love to connect with.’ – Arjun Kapoor

‘I have always liked to live my life in a quiet and peaceful manner. I used to lead my life that way. But the rise in social media has certainly affected me. Now I am always noticed.’ – Arijit Singh

‘Mostly for social media, Twitter or Instagram becomes so much more fun when you can be boastful and say whatever you want. You can be so full of yourself and ridiculous when you’re a heel.’ – Becky Lynch

‘I like my social media space to be somewhere very positive… I like to just be able to just share any images they see, or a piece of art or an item of clothing, and get to share that with the world.’ – Poppy Delevingne

‘I’m working on bridging the gap between mainstream famous and Internet famous. They’re two different things, but eventually, social media will be the way to become a celebrity.’ – Cameron Dallas

‘You learn the hard way. That’s the thing with social media. Nobody knows what they’re doing.’ – Cameron Dallas

‘Social media… it’s the future for the new generation.’ – Cameron Dallas

‘When I talk to CEOs, they’re not educated about social media.’ – Cameron Dallas

‘My goal is to bridge the gap between social media and traditional media.’ – Cameron Dallas

‘I was scared by social media – just scared of what I might attract. Once I broke onto that thing, because I needed it for my band to tell people about shows, I realized, 99 percent of the time, people are funny, clever, inventive, beautiful.’ – Juliette Lewis

‘Musically, I wear many hats. I’m the social media director. I conceptualise the videos, write the songs, do the press. I’m not a major label act.’ – Juliette Lewis

‘I talk about millennials with a healthy dose of humility, as I’m a card-carrying member of Generation X. But I have daily interaction with young people at Dana Perino & Co., through my Minute Mentoring organization, with digital friends on social media, and especially at Fox News.’ – Dana Perino

‘A key component of social media is ‘following’ – and no one is there to see what you have to say on Instagram or Twitter if they aren’t motivated to follow you.’ – Dana Perino

‘The Ricky that the public see, whether it be on screen as a character, in public, or on social media, is very outgoing, and I’m a bit of a class clown. Then those who are closest to me know that I can be very sensitive. I can be quite insecure about myself.’ – Ricky Whittle

‘I love Instagram. I find it to be one of the truly positive social media things that exist.’ – Aidy Bryant

‘There was a lot of hype about social media in President Obama’s first campaign. It was important, but it wasn’t as important as I think people let on.’ – Gavin Newsom

‘I don’t have social media. I don’t have Facebook or Instagram or Snapchat.’ – Lucas Hedges

‘If I did have social media, I would spend way to much time on it. It is way too addictive for me.’ – Lucas Hedges

‘I love Deadmau5 as a producer, as a person. He’s super interesting. He’s very funny to follow on social media. But as a producer, he gets every single credit I can give him. He’s nuts.’ – Martin Garrix

‘The thing is, people only care about their selfie. I am a fan of artists, and if I have 30 seconds with an artist, I am not going to take a photo just to prove on social media that I was with the artist. I am going to enjoy every single second of those 30 seconds, ask questions, talk, actually make something of the moment, thank them.’ – Martin Garrix

‘I like sharing my family with my fans, but my son hates it. Like, I am literally blocked on all his social media.’ – Remy Ma

‘In today’s world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I almost feel, in a way, young people get to see that not only is it OK to fail – that’s the way you get to championship success, whether it’s sports or business or life.’ – Dan Gilbert

‘I think social media is… really cool in the sense that I don’t think that a writer like me would’ve found a readership if maybe Instagram wasn’t there.’ – Rupi Kaur

‘Democratic states must have access to content exchanged between terrorists on social media and instant messaging.’ – Emmanuel Macron

‘Social media now make it easier to organize protest movements, even – or perhaps especially – in authoritarian regimes.’ – Chrystia Freeland

‘Reputations can be built, attacked, and destroyed on social media. It’s a huge game-changer – instantaneously emboldening adversaries and shortening the ride for any corporate or personal brand.’ – Judy Smith

‘Social media, for me, is just a thorn in my side. It’s painful. For us in crisis, it has totally changed the way we do business. It’s a big, big game changer.’ – Judy Smith

‘With a movie, the die is cast. It is what it is. With TV, it’s a living organism in a way. Fans can have input, with the whole social media thing, and they can track what fans are liking and not liking.’ – George Newbern

‘Anyone close to me will be familiar with my frustrations with certain aspects of social media: the behaviour it encourages and attitudes towards the self it can breed.’ – Hozier

‘I haven’t gotten a lot of feedback about, ‘Oh, you helped me in this way.’ But on social media, people are like, ‘Thank you for your positive posts,’ or ‘It’s fun to see you grow and your character. I feel like I’m growing with you.” – Taylour Paige

‘The whole freedom-of-speech thing is great. But I don’t think that our Founding Fathers predicted social media when they created all of these amendments and stuff.’ – Paris Jackson

‘I am a troll. And do you know what? I really don’t like social media apart from that aspect of it. Posting pictures of me doing this or that is really boring, but I enjoy engaging with people. I tell them it’s just a laugh and to stay in touch if you’re getting any grief. They’re just opinions.’ – James Blunt

‘Connecting with your fans in that way is just the coolest thing, because I am very fortunate that my fans let me be very open on my social media – never really judge me for that or anything.’ – Brett Eldredge

‘We’ve gotten to play shows where I’m the headliner, so people are buying tickets to come see me, and that’s when you really learn, ‘Okay, who’s listening to this music?’ That and social media. But I couldn’t feel luckier about the fan base that is starting to grow… People have just been super, super supportive and awesome.’ – Brett Young

‘I share so much of my life on social media, and I love the honest connection with the people that follow me.’ – Kelsea Ballerini

‘For some reason, I’m constantly attacked on social media in terms of how I dress. I’ve never understood that. That’s been very hard.’ – Alessia Cara

‘Real social situations are taking a back seat to social media.’ – Alessia Cara

‘Twitter, Facebook, and other social media outlets have a great deal of information about all of us – and the government wants to be able to see it.’ – Adam Cohen

‘If the courts regarded tweets and other social media information as private, it would not prevent the law enforcement from getting information it really needs. But the government would have to get a search warrant, which requires it to show that it has probable cause connecting what is being searched to a crime.’ – Adam Cohen

‘With social media, one can target the audience and reach out to the segment in a very precise, cost-effective manner.’ – Ravi Subramanian

‘I spend a lot of time on social media, I’m on Facebook every day; I’m on Twitter every day.’ – Sylvia Day

‘Some writers may hate interacting on social media. And if you do, don’t do it, because it shows. If you are uncomfortable being out in public, that shows, too, and makes the reader uncomfortable. So find the best way for you to connect with your readers and a way that you enjoy.’ – Sylvia Day

‘It’s terrifying, social media. It terrifies me.’ – Faye Marsay

‘I want to give the music attention and be in the studio. I want to give all my attention to my music, my kids, my family, so I just wanna focus on certain things besides social media.’ – Future

‘Social media is not the place to work out your problems with people.’ – Lewis Howes

‘Unfortunately, the higher you climb in social media, the more people will want to throw stones at you. But don’t retaliate publicly.’ – Lewis Howes

‘Using social media can often be the fastest and easiest way to connect with online influencers because they are already established platforms for connecting with like-minded individuals.’ – Lewis Howes

‘It can be easy to become ‘friends’ or ‘connected’ with someone in a digital world, but it requires thought and strategy to convert social media connections into rewarding business relationships.’ – Lewis Howes

‘I think that social media has really empowered bullies because you get to do it from the comfort of your own home, completely anonymously, with no ramifications.’ – Maysoon Zayid

‘The work is done; it is what it is. You do the work, and you hope people like it, and if they don’t, don’t read it. I don’t read reviews. I don’t have social media, so I’ll stay away from that; it’s easy.’ – Mike Colter

‘Social media has come a long way. With the good has come some bad, and you always have a lot of people hiding behind their computers and being very critical of what you do on and off the field, of what you tweet, of what you say, of everything you do.’ – Alex Morgan

‘A lot of times, it seems like social media has devolved into people just yelling at each other and not really conversing.’ – Kumail Nanjiani

‘Social media has been such a big platform for my success. But it can also be a toxic place.’ – Rupi Kaur

‘I don’t think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it’s fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.’ – Karen Handel

‘I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn’t use social media until that age, either.’ – Haley Joel Osment

”X Factor’ did a lot for me, but things truly started to take off for me when I went to social media.’ – William Singe

‘A lot of artists are blind to how to use these crucial social media platforms – you don’t have to put all your faith on other people; you can do it yourself.’ – William Singe

‘Before social media, if I, as an individual wanted to publish something to the world, unless I could get some local TV crew to interview me, or I wrote an op-ed or took out an ad, I had no voice.’ – Sheryl Sandberg

‘I think when we grow up watching TV, the stars seem like stars. You don’t know what they went through. You don’t know how they got it. It almost seems unattainable. With social media, we are able to show people if you work hard, that you can literally do the same thing.’ – Lil Rel Howery

‘Love making jewelry? Awesome! Find blogs that inspire you, follow people on social media who have great taste, start an Etsy store, and borrow a friend’s DSLR to take some beautiful photos of your craft. All of this costs $0.’ – Alexis Ohanian

‘Via social media, I reached out, asking about relationships, dreams, hopes, fears, the whole gambit, and the stories that really resonated with me, I wrote songs about.’ – Ne-Yo

‘Reaching out to other people is important work. I am so pleased and honored that I’m getting the attention from the young people on social media. It’s been missing.’ – Maxine Waters

‘If you follow me on social media, you may know that I am an L.A. Kings fan. I’m not kuh-ray-zee, but I am definitely enthusiastic. I love me some Kaaannnngggsss.’ – Retta

‘When it comes to social media tea, I recommend that you take it offline. Keep your comments at Happy Hour.’ – Retta

‘If your social media addiction comes between your relationship, you might want to quit.’ – Retta

‘I was never as famous as all these kids. There was no social media. We weren’t celebrity-obsessed as a culture. I feel like these kids are under a crazy microscope; they’re basically brands. And they eventually implode and act out. They need a break, and they’re not getting one.’ – Gaby Hoffmann

‘I’m not on social media; I don’t watch TV. I’m really out of it.’ – Gaby Hoffmann

‘Kim Kardashian was the first time I’ve seen a woman tormented about her weight gain while having a baby. But at least she asks for that attention by voluntarily obsessing over her weight publicly on her social media. But now nobody is safe.’ – Jameela Jamil

‘My community grew on social media because I don’t exclude anybody from any walk of life. The videos that I create are seen throughout the world and are funny no matter what language you speak.’ – GloZell

‘One thing I think is great is that if you use social media really well – in a natural, personal way – you can kind of see what’s missing. You can see when you’re bored of something or of someone.’ – Jonathan Anderson

‘Britain and America are two examples where social media will only show you what you like.’ – Jonathan Anderson

‘Ferguson shows the power of social media. This could have not been a story. Or it could have just been a local story. Or it could have been something that we saw only from a distance, through the usual filters. Instead, it gathered steam.’ – Alexandra Petri

‘It is possible to assemble a narrative for yourself, brokenly, on social media, only seeing what you want to look at.’ – Alexandra Petri

‘I campaigned for Obama, and that was such a big component of getting the vote out, was social media.’ – John Cho

‘All that social media hyperbole is just so fake.’ – Billy Eichner

‘I just don’t do much social media. No, it is more important to strike a balance between ballet and real life.’ – Yuan Yuan Tan

‘It’s hard to be taken seriously by anybody above the age of 18 or 20 or something when you’re doing a social media tour.’ – Jonah Marais

‘I started using Twitter a lot and realized I had a lot of fans. Then I saw that I can share my music on Twitter and share my YouTube videos on Twitter. That’s how I knew social media was going to be a platform to show my music. That’s how I started. I started with Twitter.’ – Maluma

‘As a young adult, we all go through things now on social media. It’s a part of our everyday lives.’ – Justine Skye

‘It all started with social media, building a fan base via Tumblr and YouTube, doing covers, and releasing a project with original music. Labels started to peel interest then. It was around the same time I was applying for college.’ – Justine Skye

‘I’m very adamant on social media about recommending comedians to people if they don’t know them. I think it’s so important to go see them.’ – Dolph Ziggler

‘What you say about me, my family, and on my social media says a lot more about your character than it does mine.’ – Tomi Lahren

‘I myself get nervous when I write something on social media. I make sure I don’t write anything wrong.’ – Disha Patani

‘When you go to our political system, I feel like it’s intentionally kept in the last century. In every other facet of life, we turn to social media for instant response time, complete transparency.’ – Mark Pincus

‘The NBA has been extraordinary in its use and embrace of social media; they are by far the leader in professional sports.’ – Casey Wasserman

‘I’m very grateful for social media. I think it has shown people my true nature, and through that has come a book deal, and I think it certainly contributes to people’s view of me as a person with a sense of humor, which is only helpful in my industry.’ – Laura Benanti

‘From the store windows, the store touch-points, the website, social media, or a magazine, it has to be one pure customer experience, not just to gain market share but to gain mind share.’ – Angela Ahrendts

‘Social media is a huge struggle for my generation in general – it’s a lot of pressure! Even having an Instagram is stressful. You have to make it look cool, posting it at the right time, and it’s become its own job and not something where you connect with people.’ – Justine Skye

‘I’m not sure whether it’s going to be the downfall of Rome – social media. There are too many secrets.’ – Judy Sheindlin

‘I know having a social media profile removed is a 21st century privileged problem – but it is the way a lot of us live. These profiles mimic our physical selves and a lot of the time are even more important. They are ways to connect with an audience, to start discussion, and to create change.’ – Petra Collins

‘Social media has been such a big important thing for young artists and minorities because it’s a community to get noticed. It’s having an audience that was never there before.’ – Petra Collins

‘With social media and all the new technology, there’s just more interfaces around and reminders to constantly be working on our body.’ – Petra Collins

‘I love social media, but it made me quite anxious.’ – Ella Woodward

‘Social media is incredible: it creates a community that I’m really proud to be a part of, but it also creates illusions and a false reality, and it’s difficult to grow up with that.’ – Ella Woodward

‘I work out most days, normally first thing, and then I just see where the day takes me. I recipe test most days, do lots of social media and emails, but nothing else is constant. Some days, I film YouTube videos; other days, I have lots of meetings, work on blog posts, brainstorm ideas, and work on upcoming projects.’ – Ella Woodward

‘Social media is a great way to get discovered in the industry because it’s free, it’s worldwide, and everyone’s on it – a very powerful combination.’ – Winnie Harlow

‘With social media now, everybody’s faceless, but I assume these kids sending me pictures of myself of Instagram are twelve, thirteen years old.’ – Seth Rollins

‘My biggest concern with the whole deal with ‘Total Divas’ and with WWE – and, you know, they want you to be engaged with social media and all this kind of stuff – I don’t want to live my life to entertain other people.’ – Daniel Bryan

‘Twitter was actually the holdout in what has turned out to be my total purge of social media.’ – Kelly Evans

‘I had been one of the earliest social media adopters, driven by a mix of curiosity and enthusiasm for the way in which it levels borders and connects people who couldn’t really have connected otherwise.’ – Kelly Evans

‘I felt lost in endless spools of social media. All the while, emails by the thousands were piling up, phone calls were getting lost in the mix, and messages from the most important people in my life were getting drowned out in the din. I was more responsive to comments on Instagram than to my own closest friends and family.’ – Kelly Evans

‘I shut down social media because I needed to shut out online distractions and engage with the people, issues, and work right in front of me.’ – Kelly Evans

‘Social media – It’s not real life. I only caught the tail end of it in high school. It can be good, and it can be fun, but you can’t let it get toxic.’ – Natalia Dyer

‘Social media is something I approach organically. It’s all me! Sometimes I’ll post four things in a few hours, but then I could go dark for a week.’ – Lily Aldridge

‘I hear the same anxieties over and over again. Everything is too fast; everything is too precarious. We have more access than ever to the people we are trying to reach, thanks to social media and mobile technology, and more information than we know what to do with.’ – Anna Wintour

‘I don’t think in today’s world you can go too far. However you may feel about social media or the Internet or selfies, it’s part of how we all live today. ‘Vogue’ needs to understand and reflect that.’ – Anna Wintour

‘With social media, there is a fashion that we speak louder than we think. It has just become a platform where people just judge and spread anger and hate.’ – Hazel Keech

‘I give big ups to people who are very big on social media, whether they’re doing vlogs or whatever. It takes a lot of effort.’ – Shawn Mendes

‘I really feel like social media – it’s like all these tiny stages that you put yourself on. And you come to rely on these likes and favorites, and it’s this applause and this validation that you start to need. Then it’s like you don’t know how to soothe yourself, and I think it’s very pernicious.’ – Carrie Brownstein

‘Through technology and social media, we’re able to create an identity online that shows people the face that we want them to see and rather than who they really are.’ – Mark Foster

‘I find it is a bad habit to look at social media before bed, so I try to read something on paper – not on my phone – before I go to bed.’ – Katrina Lake

‘I’m hardly a smartphone addict. I rarely look at social media.’ – James B. Stewart

‘We are increasingly using social media to drive both engagement and commerce. And because we are a commerce platform that integrates content, we believe we have a unique opportunity to make up a high button, a relative factor in social.’ – Mindy Grossman

‘Today, fashion shows are now blogged and broadcast all over the world via social media. By the time the merchandise ships many months later, the newness and excitement has worn off, and in many cases, the customer has moved on.’ – Karen Katz

‘A ‘social media fast’ is a fast, I suppose like any other. In this case, you’re simply giving up whether it be a device or a particular type of social media site. And I do this at least once weekly.’ – Tim Ferriss

‘When you’re directed by social media, I think it’s very easy to lose a sense of agency. And you can see it when you go to any subway station, you walk down any street in a city, you will see 70-80 percent of people staring into their phones as they walk or stand.’ – Tim Ferriss

‘Shaming is powerful and useful. I’m living in New York, and my instinct is that, after the Black Lives Matter protests, which were organized on social media, the chance of there being another Eric Garner, choked to death in New York by an NYPD officer, has diminished.’ – Jon Ronson

‘You don’t have to be famous to have problems on social media. It affects everyone, and it’s on there forever, and the things you say when you’re 15 are not necessarily what you’d say when you’re 25 or 35.’ – Davinia Taylor

‘I am probably biased, but I think social media is the great equalizer. It gives everyone a megaphone. Young people who might not have had the platform for exposure can now get their ideas out to a very receptive audience.’ – Nick Wooster

‘I’m very lucky. I’m not too exposed to social media and is going quite well for me. I like to have my privacy.’ – Anna Ewers

‘In the time of social media, I get lots of wishes. It’s overwhelming! What makes the day most special is the love I get from my fans, who try to make the occasion extra special. Almost 50 days before my birthday, they have started making plans. In fact, I have been receiving letters, too.’ – Harshvardhan Rane

‘No matter how much you make the world a part of your life through social media, it’s never enough. They all want more, and I truly understand why. It’s their never-ending love for me that wants to know every detail of my life possible.’ – Krystle D’Souza

‘Social media has helped bridge the gap between actors and fans. We are blessed to get so much love, good wishes, and support from people across the world.’ – Rithvik Dhanjani

‘Himanshu and I have known each other for over 13 years, and I don’t have to prove anything to anyone. Why should I go gushy over my husband on social media when I would rather keep my love and feelings private?’ – Amruta Khanvilkar

‘As a couple, we mutually decided to stay away from it, and rather than spending time on Internet, we be with each other. And if I need to tell Himanshu anything, I would rather whisper it in his ears than on social media. He is, after all, just beside me.’ – Amruta Khanvilkar

‘Frankly, TV stars are not that popular. In fact, I don’t have even have a million followers on any of social media accounts.’ – Nia Sharma

‘Unfortunately, often found next to things that are true are an enormous number of things that are not – in websites, videos, books and on social media.’ – Daniel Levitin

‘I’m very happy, and I try to answer the encouragement I receive on social media through my efforts on the field, for everyone from the fans who buy a shirt to those who encourage us inside the stadium.’ – Antoine Griezmann

‘Donald Trump is an extremist leader who came out of nowhere. He’s self-financed, recruits through social media, attracts his followers with a radical ideology to take over the world, and is actively trying to promote a war between Islam and the West.’ – Hasan Minhaj

‘We do a lot of things that kind of annoy people and our fan base. We try not to get overloaded on it. For us, that means we don’t do social media stuff – we have an Avenged Sevenfold social media, but none of the band members have Facebooks or any sort of Twitter.’ – M. Shadows

‘I think people find a lot to relate to in my social media, being a mom, and trying to live my best life, and I’m a fan of Oprah and other things people are fans of, and my heart breaks when there are tragedies, like everyone else, and I want to help.’ – Busy Philipps

‘On social media, we have a lot of fans. It’s so important to me to spread awareness of premature babies and premature birth.’ – Ally Brooke

‘I know that I have this platform with our fans and with social media and all of that good stuff. I really hope that people become more aware of premature birth, and I hope there’s more that can be done to prevent this.’ – Ally Brooke

‘If someone hurts me on social media, I want to tell them that they’ve hurt me. I believe you should say what you’re feeling. We should all do that, but what I’ve also realized is that even a negative comment is from a person who is trying to reach out. When I reply, maybe I’m reminding them that there’s a deeper meaning to what they’re doing.’ – Ginger Zee

‘So much has changed since the ’70s and ’80s when it comes to acting and being in the public eye. We’d go out to a restaurant, and there would be five or six people. Now there’s a lot more, plus social media, and this desire to bring other people down.’ – Lily Collins

‘Social media has allowed me to communicate with girls all over the world. It’s always been really important to me that they know I experience the same things that they do and face the same insecurities.’ – Lily Collins

‘I have a message for all the birdies who try to get in touch with people online who they think might help them to meet me or give my personal information. That will never happen. Don’t believe anything anyone tells you on social media about me because not even my parents know what I am up to.’ – Shaheer Sheikh

‘I am not on social media, as I don’t feel the need to communicate with the outside world. People who matter to me are just a call away.’ – Barun Sobti

‘I am worst when it comes to social media.’ – Barun Sobti

‘I believe social media gives away a lot to people. I got this impression long time back when my friend was on Twitter, and he got trolled because he posted his opinion about something. He was very upset about it, as he didn’t expect that people will reply in such a nasty way.’ – Barun Sobti

‘I feel – and this goes back to social media and freedom of speech – when you’re on a public platform, and you put something out there in front of people who don’t know you, they might just perceive it in a very different way altogether.’ – Fawad Khan

‘Everyone has different interests, but instead of constructive learning, people generally tend to lean towards the negative… and I think social media has somehow given fuel to this kind of thinking.’ – Fawad Khan

‘With social media, I think it becomes a little more intrusive. People have more access to you. It’s obviously very flattering, all the love and affection that you get, and then there’s also the downside of it: sometimes things don’t go your way.’ – Fawad Khan

‘A lot of people have agencies to handle their social media, but I handle everything myself. That’s why there are a lot of grammatical errors. When I write, it’s all me!’ – Varun Dhawan

‘Social media makes you think.’ – Varun Dhawan

‘The translation of social media buzz does not really happen. Films do well through word of mouth.’ – Varun Dhawan

‘I’m interested in the opportunity that people can self-create using social media and the online dialogue. Before social media, you needed to have a lot of personal funds to break through to hire the right people and build a presence to start a line. It gives the opportunity and platform for people to be discovered.’ – Zac Posen

‘Social media lacks insight, common sense, and emotion. Understand that while it’s easy to condemn celebrities on social media, people should also think of repercussions their insensitive remarks can make on the celebrities’ family.’ – Neil Nitin Mukesh

‘No matter how you feel about social media, you can’t deny the giant that is Facebook.’ – Shonda Rhimes

‘I can’t tell you the deluge of images that were sent to me through all the different social media platforms of families partying together… enjoying ‘Sharknado.” – Ian Ziering

‘We’ve shown the entertainment industry what social media is capable of doing for a movie. ‘Sharknado’ is now a noun.’ – Ian Ziering

‘It’s a new era with regard to social media. It’s just something that we have to adapt to and accept.’ – Oscar Munoz

‘The country is polarized. And I think part of it – it is not just social media. We get our facts from different places. People self-select with so many different cable channels and so many sources. I think that is a huge problem.’ – Henry Paulson

‘I don’t live my life in a social way. I don’t put everything out on social media. I don’t live that reality lifestyle. At the same time, I’ve always been private, ever since I was in high school.’ – Michael Ealy

‘Whenever there’s a big story with vast potential to get social media content and find out what’s happening, your first object is to prod into that and then test it to see whether it’s valid. If you don’t do the second part, you’re basically a bilge pump.’ – Richard Quest

‘Here’s what I love about social media: You get to peer into people’s lives that you normally wouldn’t be able to.’ – Karen Fukuhara

‘I’m not on any social media. I’m a bit analog when it comes to the Internet and technology.’ – Benedict Samuel

‘I don’t do social media.’ – Joe Gilgun

‘I grew up with social media. I am the boomerang queen. I enjoy this. I live this. The day I don’t is the day I need to resign.’ – Elaine Welteroth

‘We have witnessed a stunning reversal of power between mainstream and social media: The ability to go direct to end users of information through social channels radically disrupted the mainstream news agenda.’ – Richard Edelman

‘Social media has had a corrosive effect on government and trust, and I think it is a real cause for concern.’ – Richard Edelman

‘We have got to be more comfortable experimenting with different models. So maybe a client just needs execution people or a lot of young people who are great with social media. We don’t always have to give them the pyramidal structure of senior VP and account supervisor.’ – Richard Edelman

‘I don’t hate dating people, but I’m not on social media or anything.’ – Jonathan Groff

‘This whole social media scene makes me sick.’ – Jon Gruden

‘I always say, ‘Be anxious for nothing,’ because if this is my social media, if this is a platform for me to really get the word out and get my brand out, then why am I gonna be anxious about it?’ – Ashley Graham

‘Social media has truly helped my career because it has given models a voice. And a voice is something that we want to see a change in the industry.’ – Ashley Graham

‘With the Internet era and social media and politics being so out there with the lies, now you’ve got people denying things they’re on camera doing, and then you’ve got people not really caring about the truth. You’ve got people supporting people who’ve done horrific things, but just don’t want the other side to get any satisfaction.’ – Ricky Gervais

‘I design for social media. My customer reads blogs, is on social media, so I design with contrast in mind. An all-black shirt looks good on the shelf but not online.’ – Kerby Jean-Raymond

‘I think social media is a slippery slope because while you’re projecting something out to people, they also project back onto you what they want to see.’ – Teyonah Parris

‘I don’t know how, at an age when you’re trying to put your identity together, how you cope with the pressure of a performance space, which is what social media is.’ – Charlie Brooker

‘In the age of social media, everyone’s a newspaper columnist, exaggerating what they think and feel.’ – Charlie Brooker

‘I have often felt the worlds of social media and the Internet are like a weird dreamscape. Even physically, when you are looking at your phone, you are out of it.’ – Charlie Brooker

‘When you meet people you’ve interacted with on social media, they are not like they are on social media.’ – Charlie Brooker

‘I think social media is very long-lasting. I just don’t know the particular thing with Twitter.’ – Julian Robertson

‘I do feel there is a very rabid young base for ‘Black Mirror’ that will very much identify with the daughter character because of the invasiveness they feel with their parents trying to control their moves on social media.’ – Rosemarie DeWitt

‘I’m not on any social media; I don’t even know what things are. I’m so behind the times.’ – Rosemarie DeWitt

‘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.’ – Cristin Milioti

‘Social media provides a constant platform on which to feature what we deem beautiful, meaningful, and worthy.’ – Faith Salie

‘Social media absolutely changed my life and many others in a positive way.’ – Shervin Pishevar

‘As you live your life and accumulate friends, both IRL and on social media, ask yourself, are you a bully too?’ – Julie Plec

‘I don’t like social media at all, to be honest.’ – Kris Wu

‘Social media is one of the most under-rated business tools, in my opinion. It’s an amazing cockpit for any CEO. I can narrate any number of stories how it has helped me to reach out to customers, dealers, protesting workers, and even security guards.’ – Anand Mahindra

‘I am not a lonely person. I am happily married and not looking for companions on social media.’ – Anand Mahindra

‘Social media… I need to get with it. Obviously it’s what everyone’s doing, but I like the idea of my life being mine. But at the same time, it would be awesome to be able to get into contact with people who admire my work.’ – Juno Temple

‘The way I saw it was, if I had the built-in following and the audience, but I also had the skill set of acting, that would shoot me to the top. Because there’s so many good actors. There’s so many good-looking people. But the X factor now is social media.’ – Jake Paul

‘I want to be one of the biggest social media stars ever to become an actor.’ – Jake Paul

‘As I was growing my social media following and doing things in Los Angeles, kids in my school would start to hate on me, tweet me stuff… you name it, they said it to me.’ – Jake Paul

‘My goal there on the business side of things is to become the Dr. Dre of social media. He was mentoring younger artists and helping them launch their careers, like Eminem.’ – Jake Paul

‘I knew I always wanted to be 50 percent social media and 50 percent traditional media. Because I believe the stars of the future will need both.’ – Jake Paul

‘I think a lot of social media creators have always been, like, content and haven’t pushed the limits because no one else had pushed the limits before. I say to myself, ‘How can I create my own TV show online every day and actually make it a real production and put effort into it?” – Jake Paul

‘Social media is kind of the same across the board, so you just have to know how to engage your audience, and you will be popular on any platform that comes up.’ – Jake Paul

‘Social media stars are only relevant because they make content, so they can never stop doing that.’ – Jake Paul

‘I work harder than every single person I know, and the only person that is on the same level as me is my brother. If you look at the top social media stars, it’s me and him. I think that’s our advantage. We’re not the prettiest; we’re not even the funniest, we’re not the wittiest, whatever it is.’ – Jake Paul

‘I’m the first social media star cast as a regular on a Disney Channel series, and I think I’m the first one under 25 from social media to become a series regular.’ – Jake Paul

‘Citizens have long been easily influenced by the opinions of others and sought social proof, but social media have amplified the phenomena to unprecedented heights. As digital devices permeate every aspect of our lives, it has boosted the way in which information can distort truth.’ – Jens Martin Skibsted

‘We live in a world where people consume most of their information on the cell phones. Anyone promoting a film or TV series is well served if they can create an active social media experience. It’s the reality of the modern world.’ – Shenaz Treasury

‘I do not wear a lot of makeup. On social media, this seems to work both in my favor and against me.’ – Leandra Medine

‘I dislike the phrase ‘social media.’ ‘Social media’ is merely a way to describe new tools in an old and narrow paradigm where we measure success by how many people are reached.’ – Jared Cohen

‘With the rise of social media, it has given me an opportunity and a platform to have a voice as a blogger and as an activist, but it has also made me nervous that I might become a meme or a viral sensation, all without my consent.’ – Sinead Burke

‘Whether you want to do a letter-writing campaign or a march or start a social media hashtag – whatever it is – know that there are people out there that are thinking exactly like you’re thinking and are also afraid to take that next and very important step.’ – Angela Rye

‘Everyone needs Skin Fetish 003 in their kit. It’s the ultimate everyday essential for runway skin that looks as legendary in the office or on the street or as it does on social media.’ – Pat McGrath

‘Social media has revolutionised how beauty is curated, captured, and consumed.’ – Pat McGrath

‘Social media is my portal into the rest of the world – my periscope into the communities next to my community, into how the rest of the world thinks and feels.’ – Jenna Wortham

‘Social media seemed to promise a way to better connect with people; instead, it seems to have made it easier to tune out the people we don’t agree with.’ – Jenna Wortham

‘In many ways, Obama is America’s first truly digital president. His 2008 campaign relied heavily on social media to lift him out of obscurity.’ – Jenna Wortham

‘Social media might one day offer a dazzling, and even overwhelming, array of source material for historians.’ – Jenna Wortham

‘Social media is huge. You can give people a behind-the-scenes look at your life.’ – Hilary Knight

‘People are not just going to bars and meeting people; they’re connecting through social media.’ – Andrew Keenan-Bolger

‘Social media has become a primary factor in political campaigns.’ – Toomas Hendrik Ilves

‘I try to keep my social media really close to my personality. Then people can see exactly who I am and what I like to say and the message I want to bring.’ – Kaia Gerber

‘I just try to take a positive approach with my social media, with my Instagram. I just want people who go to my page to kinda feel inspired.’ – Storm Reid

‘If the League were real, today, they’d most likely be sued by every person they ever saved. They’d be subpoenaed by every authority in every jurisdiction imaginable; hearings upon hearings. There’d be waves of accolades followed by tsunamis of boos from social media.’ – Christopher Priest

‘Just about any growth company is going to need smart salespeople, account and project managers, business development, marketing, operations, customer service, content creation, communications, analytics, and social media.’ – Andrew Yang

‘For at least a decade, Millennials have been stereotyped as lazy, entitled, and stuck on social media. While that may not be entirely fair, they are notoriously liberal, overwhelmingly supporting left-leaning candidates and favoring policies like nationalized healthcare and same-sex ‘marriage.” – Eric Metaxas

‘When you become a ‘public person,’ I find it very difficult to keep following social media. It is too harsh, too violent. I only read newspapers online.’ – Leila Slimani

‘You can have a real ongoing dialogue through social media that wasn’t possible before.’ – Michael Bastian

‘When you want someone to notice you, there’s one fail-safe way of making sure that they do: by plastering pictures of yourself across social media. Your motive might seem obvious, but so what?’ – Adwoa Aboah

‘Without social media, I wouldn’t have young girls messaging me from Australia or Mexico City or the Midlands, but I do wonder if I’d be on it if it wasn’t part of my job.’ – Adwoa Aboah

‘The worst thing to do when I’m feeling insecure or a bit vulnerable is to scroll through Instagram. You only show when life is good on social media. Everyone looks happy all the time.’ – Adwoa Aboah

‘With modeling, social media is such a humungous part of it now. You get jobs because of the amount of followers you have.’ – Adwoa Aboah

‘If the Internet has been called a great democratizer, perhaps what social media has done is let anyone enter the beauty pageant. Teens can cover up pimples, whiten teeth, and even airbrush with the swipe of a finger, curating their own image to become prettier, thinner, and hotter.’ – Rachel Simmons

‘The meteoric rise of the ‘wellness’ industry online has launched an entire industry of fitness celebrities on social media. Millions of followers embrace their regimens for diet and exercise, but increasingly, the drive for ‘wellness’ and ‘clean eating’ has become stealthy cover for more dieting and deprivation.’ – Rachel Simmons

‘Social media forces girls to bear witness to painful realities of relationship that were previously hidden from view. It is a new kind of TMI, or ‘too much information’: publicly posted photographs of an outing or party you did not attend, or a personal web page like Formspring, can send a girl into paroxysms of anxiety and grief.’ – Rachel Simmons

‘Fortunately I can say that social media has treated me pretty well. I’ve been exempt from a lot of the mean comments.’ – Yara Shahidi

‘I’m so fascinated by the influence of social media on fashion. I’ve seen so many artists on Instagram, up and comers you would have never known otherwise.’ – Edward Enninful

‘Social media is fine, depending on how you use it.’ – Edward Enninful

‘I’ve always been very fascinated by technology – the Internet, social media.’ – Edward Enninful

‘Social media and technology are democratising and opening up fashion and the process of fashion for all – this has good and bad sides, but that comes with any change.’ – Edward Enninful

‘Social media should be a true sense of who you are.’ – Iskra Lawrence

‘Social media has been both damaging and beneficial in terms of how we view our bodies.’ – Iskra Lawrence

‘When I was detoxing from social media, I realized that I was thinking in status updates. It seemed I had trained my brain to translate everything I experienced throughout the day into 140 characters or less.’ – Glennon Doyle Melton

‘While working for Diplomat Records, I helped several artists with their online branding and social media. Once I left the label, I worked directly with artists and noticed many artists were overlooked and underrated if they weren’t in ‘XXL’ or ‘The Source.” – Karen Civil

‘At first, social media was just about networking. But now that I have to network, I make sure that every platform makes money for me. You can do something on Facebook.’ – Karen Civil

‘People see your life on social media, and they say, ‘Oh my gosh, it’s perfect,’ and I’m like, ‘No, every day, it’s not even just a struggle: it’s something new, and it’s a new challenge to make sure that I’m mentally stable and healthy and that I’m okay.’ It was just great to finally get it out and talk about it.’ – Karen Civil

‘A lot of times, you see everyone’s highlight reels because of social media. You don’t know the work that went into getting to that point. This is something that’s going to take time, hard work, and you have to be dedicated towards your craft.’ – Karen Civil

‘Social media can help or hurt you. People are more into other people’s lives than their own. Everyone sees everyone else’s success online, and we allow it to magnify our own failure.’ – Karen Civil

”Wag’ is not some kind of documentary; it’s just looking at the tools that are available. Now you’ve got more tools – you’ve got social media – and just post stories through all types of back channels that can get some traction.’ – Barry Levinson

‘It’s important and good to email the Federal Communications Commission, and it’s important and good to educate your friends via social media about what’s happening. But in a representative democracy, the way to get policy changes is through elections.’ – Brian Schatz

‘In the very near future, I guarantee that the pictures you post on social media will affect your credit rating, health and auto insurance policies, and much more. It will all happen automatically. In a very real way, our rights and freedoms will be modulated by our metadata signatures. What’s at stake, obviously, is the future of the human race!’ – Trevor Paglen

‘I think social media has reinvigorated people’s enthusiasm to be active and to engage.’ – Abi Morgan

‘Social media has created a digital latticework, but it has also, for some, created abusive commenters, silos, and validation rather than curiosity.’ – Mary Pilon

‘Long before social media made things like bib replication easier, banditing at major races was viewed as a brave act. Rebellious runners like John Tarrant gatecrashed races as a political statement, in protest of rules about amateurism that limited how much money athletes could earn in appearance fees and endorsements.’ – Mary Pilon

‘All of us in the modern world are constructing our identities, largely through social media, for a larger audience.’ – Laeta Kalogridis

‘The brands that choose to use me, my agency and social media have given me a face and a voice.’ – Philomena Kwao

‘Because of social media, it’s bridged the gap between the advertisers and fashion and allowed people to find their group. It really widens what people are viewing and allows brands to see what the public wants to see.’ – Philomena Kwao

‘I was so against social media for such a long time, but now I can’t live without it.’ – Sebastian Stan

‘I anticipated we would go to college, and then we would fade out – that was kind of what we wanted at the time – but social media hung onto my brother and I, and thankfully, fans hung onto my brother and I, and I think it’s one of the reasons that this reemergence can come back with a little more strength, and I’m very thankful for that.’ – Cole Sprouse

‘I had become obsessed with the control-freak aspect of photography and with the rising importance of the image in our social media age it ended up working.’ – Cole Sprouse

‘Social media, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter – I steer away from them. They’re alienating us socially as well as bringing us together.’ – John Hillcoat

‘While everyone’s purpose may be different, with social media we all have that platform to create the change we want to see in the world, and I spend a lot of time encouraging others to step up and use theirs.’ – Gretchen Bleiler

‘One of the best things I get to do is meet people that have been to the shows and listened to the music. I still don’t indulge in the social media side of things, so that’s my way of starting conversations – actually hearing people talk.’ – Paolo Nutini

‘I think something that’s really important to me is trying to do what I can from my position of power that comes with having a social media platform to dismantle certain systems that I think are really gross and harmful.’ – Amandla Stenberg

‘The day Trump got elected, I got off social media.’ – Chris Zylka

‘It’s good to be happy and tell us how cool your life is and how awesome you are on social media. That’s great because it inspires other people to be happy, too. But a lot of times, people are trying to be happy in the wrong ways – with money or with different things that are not true happiness.’ – Jaden Smith

‘A lot of brands just push messages out on social media, but that’s not what social is about. Social is about engaging. It’s about a conversation. It’s about listening and then responding. It’s an ongoing conversation with our fan base.’ – Stephanie McMahon

‘I hit Instagram and Twitter as soon as I wake up. And then I check my texts and emails. It’s funny that I check social media before I check my email.’ – Guillermo Diaz

‘It’s amazing what social media has done for entertainment.’ – Scott Foley

‘It’s weird how much social media affects someone’s career. Deals and jobs are sometimes based off how many followers you have, which is a little sad. I would rather that not be the case, but I understand that it’s important.’ – Lili Reinhart

‘I don’t go on social media with a mercenary intent to promote. That’s just wrong. I go to learn, to listen, to have fun, to find people who love what I love and who introduce me to new things. That’s where the joy is: in the interactions.’ – Sabaa Tahir

‘I get on social media sometimes. I think it’s good to find a balance and to be able to put your phone down.’ – Maia Mitchell

‘Who needs soap operas now when we have social media timelines? Now you can get a similar drama fix by just paying attention to your friends and family members’ Facebook pages.’ – Luvvie Ajayi

‘I am of the bridge generation that remembers life before social media permeated everything but cannot imagine life without it now.’ – Luvvie Ajayi

‘The thing that I would say you get the most hate about on social media, in my experience, is if you tweet anything about women’s rights or feminism. It blows my mind. But it’s the thought of not being a feminist that actually blows my mind.’ – Elliot Page

’21st-century activism is different perhaps in the sense that the individual can be more present in the process, especially via social media, but the underlying drivers remain the same as desire to change the status quo.’ – Ory Okolloh

‘I really use social media to keep up with what’s happening.’ – Ana Navarro

‘My social media world is detached from my friendship world. I’ll have friends in real life that I don’t follow on social media, because I don’t really look at social media as the way of connecting to friends. For me, social media is like a business tool.’ – Ian Harding

‘The upside of social media is you can craft how you want people to see you in some way.’ – Ian Harding

‘Previously, someone would interview me, and if they liked me, it’d be a great story. If they hated me, it’d be a horrible story. I had no way to say anything. Social media changed things for people who didn’t have a voice.’ – Coco Rocha

‘Don’t have just anyone run your social media. I think it’s insane when brands or celebrities relegate their social media to an intern or someone who does not know them well.’ – Coco Rocha

‘Personally, even though I have a great PR team, no one except my husband and I touch any of my 10 social media accounts. It’s a lot of work, but I know that my brand, my image, and my voice are authentic to me.’ – Coco Rocha

‘Poems are ideally suited, in some ways, to social media because they pack so much meaning into so little language.’ – Michelle Dean

‘We are reminded repeatedly, often by older men, that western civilization has died on the altar of social media.’ – Michelle Dean

‘I don’t know why the leaders of social networks have overlooked the idea of rules. Real-life behavior is becoming more reflective of social media instead of vice versa, and that’s a dangerous thing.’ – Whitney Wolfe Herd

‘I was 24 when I was embroiled in a high-profile lawsuit. This was 2014, long before, en masse and on social media, we said #MeToo and #TimesUp. At the time, I felt completely alone. Visceral, hateful online harassment from strangers left me paranoid and anxious for years afterward.’ – Whitney Wolfe Herd

‘I had seen a lot of bullying on social media. If this is happening to me, who only a few people are paying attention to, what happens to somebody who is on a bigger scale?’ – Whitney Wolfe Herd

‘Social media opened up basically every opportunity for me because, traditionally, I wouldn’t be thought of as a model.’ – Barbie Ferreira

‘I like forming connections with people who follow me on social media because they make me feel like everything is worth it.’ – Barbie Ferreira

‘Social media makes it possible to go underneath a story, which sometimes abruptly ends.’ – Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

‘Social media is basically the entire reason I have a career right now. Like everything, my readership for ‘Nimona’ came because I was active on Tumblr.’ – Noelle Stevenson

‘I keep track of my kids sometimes with social media. I have to check TMZ every morning to see what’s going on, and then at night, I go to bed with Snapchat.’ – Kris Jenner

‘These young people need to see that there’s something bigger out there than what they’re looking at everyday or seeing in the news or on social media. They need men and women to come into their lives who will give them a bigger vision of the world, of life, of opportunity, of what they can become rather than what they think they are limited to you.’ – Tony Evans

‘Strong emotional connections between individuals, customers, and salespeople that trust each other will always be 10 times more powerful than the most expensive ad campaign. That’s the power social media makes possible.’ – Clara Shih

‘Companies can’t delegate social media to the new college grad and think they have it covered.’ – Clara Shih

‘Social media teams can and do launch clever campaigns, but game-changing Social Business initiatives are typically driven by management teams.’ – Clara Shih

‘Social media provides the modern-day version of mystery shopping and walking the halls.’ – Clara Shih

‘Social media isn’t a one-way broadcast; it’s a multiway opportunity for dialogue.’ – Clara Shih

”The Facebook Era’ articulated a radical vision for how social media would transform media, relationships, and influence, creating new opportunities for businesses in the process.’ – Clara Shih

‘Long before social media existed, the proto-tweets of advertising had penetrated American popular culture: ‘A mind is a terrible thing to waste.’ ‘Where’s the beef?’ ‘A diamond is forever.’ ‘Think different.’ You’d be hard pressed to find a writer’s craft that has more directly influenced the vernacular.’ – David Droga

‘Whenever journalism students ask me what they should be doing, I say that if you’re on social media, you should be following a ton of people that you don’t necessarily agree with just to get their perspectives.’ – Jake Tapper

‘Social media forced us to look at the bigger picture. More people are standing up saying, ‘Hey, wait, this is beautiful, too,’ and the fashion industry is listening.’ – Lauren Wasser

‘Social media is an influence but with my own twist!’ – Ashley Nell Tipton

‘Social media can be so damaging.’ – Ella Purnell

‘I have to be natural and not doing anything fake, not lying on social media, in interviews and life.’ – Mohamed Salah

‘Social media really makes it tricky for people sometimes because you go, ‘Oh, it’s awesome. I’m gonna play this character. I’m going to do this really weird thing on camera,’ and then you go back and read all your tweets and go, ‘Mmm, well, I guess they didn’t like that so much.” – Lamorne Morris

‘I put out some very entertaining material on social media! Check my Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat! I got jokes for days!’ – Lamorne Morris

‘Now, with social media, it’s a whole different world, which is good and bad. Back when I was in college, when there was no Twitter, no one knew what Vera Wang looked like – there was no face to the brand.’ – Christian Siriano

‘If we start to use social media data sets to take the pulse of a nation or understand a crisis – or actually use it to deploy resources – we are getting a skewed picture of what is happening.’ – Kate Crawford

‘Through Black Lives Matter and social media, we’ve been able to have a really challenging discussion with America about police and how much it is investing in policing.’ – Patrisse Cullors

‘I think that women of color use social media to make our voices heard with or without the amplification of white women. I also think that, many times, when white women want our support, they use an umbrella of ‘women supporting women’ and forget that they didn’t lend the same kind of support.’ – Tarana Burke

‘Social media is so immediate and in your face that I know many people have been helped and many people who have been traumatised by their entire timeline filled with ‘me too.” – Tarana Burke

‘Social media is a powerful tool to connect constituents with the policy making process.’ – Elise Stefanik

‘One of my ideas is that we post every vote on Facebook and on social media so that voters have an opportunity to hold their elected official accountable.’ – Elise Stefanik

‘There’s so many shows, whether it’s ‘Last Week Tonight’ or ‘The Daily Show’ or ‘Full Frontal’ or ‘Late Night With Seth Meyers,’ that are really doing great stuff talking about what’s going on in the world and what’s going on with the president, and those stories that everyone winds up talking about, whether on social media or in their jobs.’ – Wyatt Cenac

‘I wasn’t into social media at all, but when I decided I was going to put out my own music, I said, ‘Okay, I’m just going to post it.’ And that’s when it started its rounds on the Internet, and people started to take an interest in me.’ – Kali Uchis

‘After I posted the picture of Frank Ocean, I think his little brother called him and said the picture was all over the Internet, so Frank Ocean was like, ‘I’m not on social media like that, but it’s cool. I’m not mad about it.” – Rich the Kid

‘Social media allowed us to become our own storytellers. With it, we seized the power of our truth.’ – DeRay Mckesson

‘We created #BlackLivesMatter. We created a platform. We used our social media presence online in order to forward a conversation about what is taking place in black communities.’ – Opal Tometi

‘Social media has given us the world at our fingertips every morning. And we watch it change, live. In the morning, in the old days, we’d read the ‘Post,’ and that was what we had.’ – Elvis Duran

‘As far as radio goes, it really isn’t what listeners get; it’s how they get it. Social media gives us new and fun ways to stay more directly connected to people who listen to us, and it also helps us make decisions faster.’ – Elvis Duran

‘To those who wish to shape the nation’s political dialogue, social media is dangerous.’ – Ajit Pai

‘I was a very private person. I never had an open social media account. So, for me to walk down the street and have people say, ‘Hey, Tan!’ I turn around thinking, ‘Do I know you?” – Tan France

‘Social media isn’t as quaint as it was when I started my Livejournal back in high school.’ – Franchesca Ramsey

‘For me, social media isn’t just about connecting with friends and sharing photos; it’s a bigger, more tangled web that’s led me to jobs working in television, speaking gigs around the country, and it’s even helped me land my first book deal!’ – Franchesca Ramsey

‘The truth is that the performative nature of social media can turn even the simplest conversations into a WWE style cage match with emojis and Internet slang taking the place of pratfalls and over the top costumes.’ – Franchesca Ramsey

‘The biggest thing I try to do is to unplug and give myself time away from social media and the Internet.’ – Franchesca Ramsey

‘I think, even before social media, it was really hard to not look at other classmates and say, ‘Well I wish I looked like her.’ Or even to look at celebrities and wish that ‘I looked like them.” – Franchesca Ramsey

‘What’s really great about social media is we have tremendous access, and there’s a wealth of information about the people that we admire online.’ – Franchesca Ramsey

‘Social media has changed my life, and it taught me that you can make your own path and really find who you are as an artist, in whatever capacity.’ – Jenny Mollen

‘Fullscreen is doing some really interesting work. They are taking these YouTube stars and people who have made entire careers out of social media and bringing them into an even bigger limelight on a new entrepreneur platform – and that’s fascinating! That’s genius to me.’ – Madeline Brewer

‘The best advice for anyone trying to grow on social media is to be real and to be consistent. People will connect more with you if you stay true to yourself and who you are.’ – Lele Pons

‘The key to WWE’s success and longevity is that they are, as modern and as relevant as the company may be in modern social media and platforms and contemporary distribution, the company is still built around old-school promotion. Who are these two fighters? Why are they wrestling? And why should I pay to see it?’ – Paul Heyman

‘It’s good to try and stay humble and down to earth, despite media and social media.’ – Soccer Mommy

‘Social media being used to discover new artists is great. There’s not a barrier to enter the industry. People can just post music and share it. And if it’s good enough, and people like it, it will grow.’ – Soccer Mommy

‘People’s access to social media should not permanently be restricted.’ – Hassan Rouhani

‘I’m so old… when I was a kid, in order for someone to bully, they had to be bigger and stronger and more intimidating than the people they were bullying. Now with social media and Facebook and Twitter and all those other things, anyone can bully somebody.’ – Dan Donovan

‘I always try and put out posts on social media about feeling good inside, and there’s so much pressure for people to look a certain way and have a certain hairstyle or a certain lipstick.’ – Anne-Marie

‘I think social media has been really great for me.’ – Anne-Marie

‘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.’ – Grace Helbig

‘Cloud computing, smartphones, social media platforms, and Internet of Things devices have already transformed how we communicate, work, shop, and socialize. These technologies gather unprecedented data streams leading to formidable challenges around privacy, profiling, manipulation, and personal safety.’ – Oren Etzioni

’50 and I are extremely close, so all that social media drama? It’s just for the show.’ – Courtney A. Kemp

‘I’ve never been great at social media.’ – Nick Foles

‘I’ve made it a point to be transparent on my social media and in everything that I present. I never want anyone to think that I’m too fluffy or too perfect.’ – Ayesha Curry

‘It’s hard to portray your personality in 140 characters. And so, at times, I tend to be very cynical. And I don’t think that comes across very well on social media.’ – Ayesha Curry

‘Social media gives a lot of people a platform where they can express their feelings. I like to do mine through songs. I let info build up. In some way, it translates into paper whenever I sit down.’ – Rakim

‘Social media worries me because it’s not part of my world.’ – Alex Kingston

‘My social media is riddled with me speaking out on stuff that matters because silence is a petri dish for hate. For me, it’s important to speak out.’ – Natasha Rothwell

‘I’m super grateful that there wasn’t social media when I was a kid, but that sort of self-doubt crept in at a young age. It’s bullying. It’s the comments here and there, and maybe somebody says something to you that they don’t even mean to be a mean-spirited comment, but they’ll just kind of say it to you in passing.’ – Amy Schumer

‘I personally run my social media, so I read all the messages. I get amazing messages. I try to respond as much as possible. Slow, but steady.’ – Kerli

‘I love talking to other musicians on tour and finding out what we all have to do, not just as artists but as business people. A lot of us are investing and trying to use social media. It is such an interesting level of responsibility and engagement on all these levels. I don’t know how one can do this without absolute commitment and faith.’ – Lizz Wright