Top 100 Quotes About Social Media
#1. As a communication medium, social media is a critical tool for terror groups to exploit.
James Comey
#2. You think that social media is about hooking up online? For these kids [in the Tunisian Revolution], it was a military tool to defend unarmed people from murderers.
Don Tapscott
#3. How can people trust social media over newspapers today?
Joel Landau
#4. Social media sites are the perfect place to share daily updates. Don't worry about being on every platform; pick and choose based on what you do and the people you're trying to reach.
Austin Kleon
#5. It's interesting now; with social media, you are actually interacting with fans.
Andie MacDowell
#6. Social media is not the same in 2013 as it was in 2003 - or even 2008 or 2011. You didn't carry around AOL chat in your pocket or look at it when you were in class.
Nancy Jo Sales
#7. We are the generation of Social Media, Our biggest Revolution is a Tweet of 141 Characters.
Sandra Chami Kassis
#8. For the ancient Greeks, who lacked our social media, the only way to achieve mass duplication of the details of one's life in the apprehension of others was to do something wondrously worth the telling. Our wondrous technologies might just save us all the personal bother. Kleos is a tweak away.
Rebecca Goldstein
#9. 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
#10. Understand your audience and you will understand the impact of your message on each follower in your social media networks.
Matt Gentile
#11. There seems to be no limit to the exciting possibilities that come from combining technical innovations, the Internet, and social media.
Mohamed El-Erian
#12. 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
#13. I try not to live my life on my phone or my social media pages.
Jane Levy
#14. Social media is driving the culture, it drives peoples minds literally.
Aeriel Miranda
#15. I dont make it a practice to respond to reports in the social media but occasionally it is necessary.
Amalie Benjamin
#16. I think that social media can be used for good and for bad.
Lexi Ainsworth
#17. The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
Bill Keller
#18. I think [social media] is fundamentally restructuring the whole nature of information and how it's expressed in America.
John McCain
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. You can use social media to turn strangers into friends, friends into customers and customers into salespeople.
Seth Godin
#24. 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
#25. I can't control who follows me, but I can control who I follow.[Social Media]
Germany Kent
#26. I think social media is a great place to share ideas and to connect with other people.
Kaitlyn Dever
#27. Social media technology creates a culture in which people turn into little brand managers, using Facebook, twitter, text messages to create a falsely upbeat, slightly overexuberant, external self that can be famous first in a small sphere and then, with luck, in a large one.
David Brooks
#28. 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
#29. Listening to my fans and seeing love and support through social media from them is what I live for.
Jake T. Austin
#30. Almost universally, the kind of performance we give on social media is positive. It's more "Let me tell you how well things are going. Look how great I am." It's rarely the truth: "I'm scared. I'm struggling. I don't know.
Ryan Holiday
#31. Social media is addictive precisely because it gives us something which the real world lacks: it gives us immediacy, direction, a sense of clarity and value as an individual.
David Amerland
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. The amount of gender violence that I experience is absolutely extraordinary. And a significant part of my day today will be spent filing police reports at home about gender violence that's directed at me in social media.
Ashley Judd
#35. I've never really been into social media - I don't have a Facebook; I don't do Twitter or Instagram or anything.
Banks
#36. The power of social media is it forces necessary change.
Erik Qualman
#37. If you're not pissing someone off on social media, you're not using it aggressively enough.
Guy Kawasaki
#38. 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
#39. There's only one reason a person have drama in their life, because they willingly accept it. Don't complaint about it, if you allow it. Keep in mind social media is for entertainment purposes only. Prayers are for problems.
Ray Price
#40. The social-media landscape changes incredibly fast, so you have to be open-minded and nimble to keep up with it.
Alexis Ohanian
#41. Staying away from news channels, print, and social media makes one realize, that the world actually is a beautiful place to live.
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#42. 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
#43. Social Media isn't creating the problems in our relationships; it's only exposing the ones that already existed.
Steve Maraboli
#44. We are using social media and technology as a way to be noticed by others, and often seek validation through "likes," "retweets," etc.
Jason Treu
#45. We also know that ISIS is recruiting who are not in those databases. So of course, we're going to miss them. And then we now learn that DHS says, "No, we can't check their social media."
Carly Fiorina
#46. The paradigm of social media is one that Silicon Valley would like to extend to society at large: a technocracy of benevolent, but total, surveillance. In this kind of society, profits flow to platform owners, not those writing tweets and sharing YouTube videos.
Jacob Silverman
#47. Social media is the ultimate canary in the coal mine
Jay Baer
#48. If you are going to share something with a person, first look on their social media accounts and see how they have handled other people trust. If someone has shared the secrets of others, they will share yours.
John Patrick Hickey
#49. Social media does not change your culture, it reveals it.
Sandy Carter
#50. It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not.
Ryan Holmes
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. People in my industry [PR] would like people to believe we have ways to control social media. But that's one of the great swindles.
Eric Dezenhall
#54. You can be labelled but if it doesn't speak to people then it won't work. The social media and online has been really important. Fans are really smart too: they don't want to hear something manufactured or something that has too much marketing behind it.
Mac Miller
#55. Most of the serious disagreement I get comes through email or social media, where people are more comfortable.
Roxane Gay
#56. Social media's greatest assets - anonymity, 'virality,' interconnectedness - are also its main weaknesses.
Evgeny Morozov
#57. If I'm going to be held captive by social media, I'm going to use it against itself.
Michelle Shocked
#58. 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
#59. It is not the job for those who are angry about the events of the day to strike out and post things that they hope will incite anger in others as well. Do not sell your social media friends short as far as their ability to find the news for themselves.
John Patrick Hickey
#60. Everything also calms down with the influx of social media, there's so much happening all the time.
Kate Walsh
#61. My approach with social media is to interact with the readers I already have. I do it mostly to procrastinate from my writing. It's an escape. It's the only socializing I get outside of my wife, and she gets sick of me.
Hugh Howey
#62. 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
#63. Social media is teaching us that everyone fucks up, everyone is stupid sometimes, and that this is probably part of being a thinking human. The one exception are those who participate in the self-righteousness Olympics and they often turn people who agree with them against 'em.
Joe Hill
#64. Good salespeople sell value and social media is the best place to find this value because of its transparency.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#65. If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.
Bryan Adams
#66. Social Media brands faster than any other existing Marketing plan and for much cheaper!
Germany Kent
#67. Authors worry. We worry about writing. Worry about our editors, our agents, our reviews, and our readers. We worry about everything, including all forms of social media including blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and personal websites.
David Macinnis Gill
#68. Comedy has been crossing the country with remarkable speed way before the Internet, social media, even cable TV.
Chris Bliss
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
Bill Nye
#76. The incredible brand awareness and bottom-line profits achievable through social media marketing require hustle, heart, sincerity, constant engagement, long-term commitment, and most of all, artful and strategic storytelling.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#77. I was humiliated for the girl with the social media addiction. The girl addicted to the validation of strangers. She didn't even know what she thought until someone told her what to think. She didn't even know who she was.
Kasie West
#78. Why are we trying to measure social media like a traditional channel anyway? Social media touches every facet of business and is more an extension of good business ethics.
Erik Qualman
#79. 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
#80. I remember playing the guitar through the amplifier facing out the window of my house onto the street in the summer time - that was social media in 1992.
John Mayer
#81. I am happy to note that the BJP as an organization is looking to creatively harness Power of Social Media. We have to ensure our Youth stays engaged in our Democratic process. We have to make our Democratic process accessible to them. Social media is an important tool for this.
Narendra Modi
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. Instagram, as well as all other social media platforms, is meant to complement your main marketing efforts for your business, not take over them.
Kevin J. Donaldson
#86. Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity.
Kellie Elmore
#87. I don't look at Instagram. I don't have much to do with social media.
Iris Apfel
#88. With social media, you have the chance to be the Lutherans that Luther imagined.
Diana Butler Bass
#89. I have a private Instagram and an official one, so I'm not opposed to social media.
Dylan Penn
#91. The landscape for business isn't changing because of social media, it's changing because consumer expectations are evolving.
Brian Solis
#92. I love social media. I love the connectivity it provides, the creativity it allows, and the breathtaking wealth of information we all have at our fingertips because of it.
Galit Breen
#93. Strong personal relationships are characterised by an ability and willingness to do each other favors. Strive to put family first, then your social circle, and back off on efforts to be a social media superstar.
Mark Sisson
#94. Social Media begins with a story - your story.
Germany Kent
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. If you could multiply what you know in your head and your heart, your IQ and EQ, by the power of everyone you've ever e-mailed or could contact by social media and other technology, what would you do?
Erica Dhawan
#98. There might be all these social media now but it's just a different century with the same kind of people with the same opinions. And opinions are like assholes, Vaughn. Everyone has one, and everyone knows one. Stop caring what everyone else thinks, and think about what you want.
Samantha Towle
#99. 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
#100. The traditional media [in China] is still heavily controlled by the government; social media offers an opening to let the steam out a little bit. But because you don't have many other openings, the heat coming out of this opening is sometimes very strong, active and even violent.
Yang Lan
