Quotes About Social Networking

#1. I've always been a social network retard, even before there was a social network. People would say, "You want to go to this party and do some networking?"

Lewis Black

#2. Social networks are like grease - in some cases, gasoline - for our personal business networking machines. If you aren't plugged in, you will be out-done by better-connected, hyper-networked colleagues and competitors.

Danah Boyd

#3. With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I learn more from Twitter than any survey or discussion with a big company.

Daniel Ek

#4. Social networking inspires me a lot and how we are related and connected to each other.

Nicola Formichetti

#5. Conservatively, I am saying that social networking has made being in a band more fun, but not necessarily changed how the business works.

Chris Cain

#6. There is a fine line between social networking and wasting your fucking life.

Andy Borowitz

#7. If he could not go out into the world, the world could come to him.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#8. You thought you could figure that out online? Somehow I don't think hellions are much into social networking.

Rachel Vincent

#9. The precondition of success and entry to the top politics is primarily one's will - that is, making one's own decisions, because it means having to leave your home or move your family, quit social networking and build new contacts, [since] central governments are seated in capitals.

Dalia Grybauskaite

#10. Because of things like iTunes and streaming and social networking, it's destroyed music. It's destroyed the motivation to go out there and really make the best record possible. It's a shame.

Kirk Hammett

#11. Search without Google is like social networking without Facebook: unimaginable.

Evgeny Morozov

#12. We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

Jon Bon Jovi

#13. To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#14. I'm a very optimistic person. I have the chance to listen to so much phenomenal music. Connecting with social networking to create music is a progression of what electronic music does anyway - it connects people.

Paul Van Dyk

#15. Googling is not spying. It's social networking.

Sarah

#16. The only thing worse than a social networking junkie who breaks out in a cold sweat if she hasn't updated her page in the past ten seconds is the person (usually it's a guy) who proudly refuses to join Facebook. You know, that same d-bag who held out on getting a cell phone until, like, 2002.

Andrea Lavinthal

#17. The social networking sites are such good way to keep in touch with your fans, it's quick and simple and it keeps your fans interested in what you're doing.

Melanie Fiona

#18. I think the whole aspect of social networking is vulgar and repulsive in a lot of ways. But I also see why it's appealing - I've had that little high you get from posting stuff online. But then you think, 'Did I need to say that?' I've explored that enough to know to stay kind of quiet these days.

Trent Reznor

#19. Your LinkedIn profile must include keywords for specific skills that match your desired job.

Melanie Pinola

#20. I don't actually have any accounts, because social networking has always felt like a popularity contest to me. A public record of my own inadequacies.

Stephanie Perkins

#21. Don't wait until you desperately need a social network to begin developing one.

Frank Sonnenberg

#22. If you look at the evolution of games from console to Internet to mobile, and look at social networking from Web to mobile, everything is fragmenting.

Chris DeWolfe

#23. It's true that I love to connect with my fans on the social networking sites, but I try not to go overboard, ever. I just give people a peek into my mind space, but never bombard them with my tweets.

A.R. Rahman

#24. Social networking is playing a huge role in creating awareness and mobilizing support for all kinds of common interests. What better way to use this remarkable tool than to change the world?

Natalie Portman

#25. Little girls think it's necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it's a shame ... I'm all about mystery.

Stevie Nicks

#26. Having to explain to a child of today, who has learned to swipe before they can speak, that certain aspects of a person's life must remain private for the preservation of one's sanity is almost frivolous.

Aysha Taryam

#27. Social networking platforms drove man closer to those in neighboring continents, while driving him further apart from those in his neighborhood.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#28. I don't think there are as many usability issues as there are tactical or strategic decisions related to whether incorporating social networking into your site is going to help or hurt.

Steve Krug

#29. Love is an attachment which develops through human interaction.

Auliq Ice

#30. Not everyone will like what you have to say. Not everyone will like what you do. Social networking is a garbage pile waiting for rats to feed. Pointless nothings of your everyday lives. Still the fumes rise.

Jerica Barsht

#31. One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't.

Tim Berners-Lee

#32. Make sure your LinkedIn profile has a targeted headline. Not only should the headline clearly state your career focus, it's also the most important place to add a keyword or two, because this influences how you appear in search results

Melanie Pinola

#33. Don't let a temporal way to connect be a poor substitute for an eternal way. Without first being connected vertically to God, all the social networking contacts in the world won't be enough.

Robert A. Schuller

#34. On Earth, social networking generally involved sitting down at a nonsentient computer and typing words about needing a coffee and reading about other people needing a coffee, while forgetting to actually make a coffee.

Matt Haig

#35. When you decide to meet - in person - someone that you met online, would you then be taking your relationship to the 'previous' level?

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#36. With the advent of Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites, genuine privacy can only be found by renting a private villa for a holiday.

Robert Powell

#37. Founded in August 2003, MySpace would go on to be the most-visited social networking site in the world from 2005 until early 2008.

David Sze

#38. I think that it will be the mobile technologies, both from the enterprise and the consumer side, where super unicorns will come from. I still believe that social networking in combination with mobile will create opportunities for super unicorns.

David Sze

#39. Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#40. Your network is your destiny, a reality backed up by many studies in the newly emergent fields of social networking and social contagion theory. We are the people we interact with.

Keith Ferrazzi

#41. I keep in touch with my fans by keeping a blog online and I try to answer questions every day. I also have a twitter and a facebook. I think that social networking gives authors a unique insight in the minds of their fans and for me that is very valuable.

Cassandra Clare

#42. Never was a Family more insistent on learning one another's movements than were the Bunch. All of them volubly knew, or indignantly desired to know, where all the others had been every minute of the week.

Sinclair Lewis

#43. Thou shalt not unfollow someone, merely because they stopped following you.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#44. Some say Twitter is overrated.
Some love it, others hate it.
I guess it depends on what you've got,
If you have guts to write a funny plot!

Ana Claudia Antunes

#45. Wikis and social networking are just tools.

Jimmy Wales

#46. I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#47. People have a habit, in the age of cameraphones and social networking, of being a bit too quick to turn all sorts of experiences into a 'memory'.

Tom Cox

#48. This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.

Bill Gates

#49. All media work us over completely.

Marshall McLuhan

#50. Thou shalt not follow someone, merely because they are following you.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#51. Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site.

Jaron Lanier

#52. Six degrees of separation doesn't mean that everyone is linked to everyone else in just six steps. It means that a very small number of people are linked to everyone else in a few steps, and the rest of us are linked to the world through those special few.

Malcolm Gladwell

#53. Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so.

Marissa Mayer

#54. A survey of Canadian media consumption by Microsoft concluded that the average attention span had fallen to eight seconds, down from 12 in the year 2000.

Timothy Egan

#55. The tools of social networking: These are the digital campfires around which the audience gathers to hear our story.

Marco Tempest

#56. Social Networking should never replace face-to-face time.

Germany Kent

#57. Once the people of planet Earth are all hanging out together online in a virtual world without any borders, I think it could change social networking, entertainment and even politics.

Ernest Cline

#58. Bullying behaviour can be communicated via text, mobile phones, internet, social networking sites, forums. But we can't limit it because these messages are then reinforced by television which glamorises yelling, swearing and vulgar behaviour as the way to walk the red carpet of acceptance.

Louise Burfitt-Dons

#59. You tweeted?" I question.

"Twitter, social networking, innit?"

"I know what Twitter is, Jimmy."

Jimmy smiles devilishly. This guy is bad news through and through. "Stay off Twitter, Sweet Lips, it's full of celebrity wannabe's and wanna-don't-be's.

Heidi McLaughlin

#60. Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.

Seth Godin

#61. Jarod Kintz gets so many retweets, he's like Katniss Everdeen with tourettes in a forest full of Mockingjays.

Ryan Lilly

#62. Courtesy and kindness cultivate confidence with good Netiquette. Doing things right makes you feel good.

David Chiles

#63. Before social networking platforms, people needed to know you to know your name. Today, people only need to know your name to know you.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#64. Face-book has all the social graces of a nose-picking, hyperactive six-year-old, standing at the threshold of your attention and chanting, I know something, I know something, I know something, won't tell you what it is!

Cory Doctorow

#65. Thou shalt not think that thou be a leader, merely because thee be having more than 0 followers.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#66. She thought not so much of what had happened as of how she could describe it.

E. M. Forster

#67. A huge number of jobs that are filled are never advertised to the public, or if they are, they're filled by people who have a connection to the employer.

Melanie Pinola

#68. Relationships are the currency of business.

Brian Basilico

#69. Being on Facebook too much in a row is like playing chess in a black hole. You never know if the next move will lead you to a checkmate or a mate checked.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#70. I really utilize all of my social networking sites.

Bethany Mota

#71. Social networking can also have a negative effect on relationships when you only treat people as potential sales. The responsibility to build a relationship lies with you and depends on how you choose to use social media.

Brian Basilico

#72. Thou shalt not tweet to be retweeted.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#73. Most bloggers who rise above the clutter are quite often prolific -they work hard, not just writing content but networking, engaging in Social Media and more.

Darren Rowse

#74. Pubcon is always one of the first shows I put on my calendar. Content is excellent, social is excellent, networking opportunities are excellent.

Jim Banks

#75. I have a pretty active presence on social networking sites, and every day there are messages from so many young girls telling me that they are happy B-Town has curvy women like me. I feel you should be happy the way you are. Of course, fitness is important, but not to the extent of obsession!

Sonakshi Sinha

#76. Your LinkedIn profile should leave no room for doubt about the kind of job you're looking for and why you're the best person for that position.

Melanie Pinola

#77. What's the golden rule of social networking?"
Luther hangs up his coat. "Don't do it?

Neil Cross

#78. Well, I think the social networking is really interesting.

Marissa Mayer

#79. The [film] industry, from the franchise on, has dramatically changed, not just with us, but with social networking. The social working has changed dramatically, especially in the way you promote films. It's instant.

Tara Reid

#80. She looks really happy."
"Everyone looks happy on Facebook."
"I know, right? What's up with that?

Harlan Coben

#81. Being a good person and helping others succeed even when you don't personally benefit is the undercurrent that powers social media networking.

Tom Martin

#82. Being comfortable with online contact is a central part of netiquette. Stay in your zone.

David Chiles

#83. I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It's like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books.

Paulo Coelho

#84. Social networking sites like Myspace, Friendster, and Facebook have literally exploded in popularity in just a few short years.

Mike Fitzpatrick

#85. It was still the pre-eminent social networking site for the 0-3 age group

Greg Egan

#86. Social networking, I believe, has completely changed the relationship between band-members and fans.

Beau Bokan

#87. Facebook is by far the largest of these social networking sites, and starting with its ill-fated Beacon service, privacy concerns have more than once been raised about how the ubiquitous social networking site handles its user data.

Michael Bennet

#88. By early 2004 Tickle had become the second-largest social network after Friendster, with two million members actively connected to others and exchanging messages.

David Kirkpatrick

#89. Tempted to type meaningless twaddle all the time on Twitter ... with alliteration, no less!

E.A. Bucchianeri

#90. We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.

Charles Stross

#91. Social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr provide an unparalleled ability for people to stay connected in new and unique ways.

Michael Bennet

#92. If you feel it right now, on the Internet, you can tell them right now; you don't have to wait for anything.

Sherry Turkle

#93. The Social Networking Netiquette Loop: Read, share, like, and repeat.

David Chiles

#94. The future success of online social networking sites as an advertising medium depends on its acceptance as an advertising vehicle that can deliver a message to a micro-target in a manner that will be well received and that increases the likelihood of interaction.

Mary Louise Kelly

#95. I don't feel the need to brand myself in that way [social media]. But as a means to share information and raise awareness of things, I think these social-networking platforms are unprecedented.

Scarlett Johansson

#96. Just because you want to join the party does not mean you are required to stay until the last drunk passes out.

Sophia Dembling

#97. The way that identity has been commercialised through movies and TV, and now through social networking, means we're all sort of working to a script, a collective idea of what needs to happen next.

Linda Papadopoulos

#98. In my coming-of-age time, there was no internet, no social networking, nothing. It was just show after show, hoping one day somebody would notice you.

Madonna Ciccone

#99. I really like Google+ it's much better than face book. The only game you can play on it is life. Which is a game that can only be played and never won.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#100. I must admit that I don't really understand social networking models that well, and I haven't tried to because I have just not been enthused about this whole thing.

David Cheriton