“Wikis and social networking are just tools.” SocialToolsNetworkingSocial NetworkingSocial NetworkWikis Author:Jimmy Wales
“Generally, social networking sites can be hugely promising and beneficial in opening new friendships and vistas and knowledge of the world, but they are also fraught with peril, when young people are reckless or headless.” PeopleWorldYoungSocialOpeningSiteBeneficialPerilNetworkingRecklessSocial NetworkingSocial NetworkNew FriendsVistasNew FriendshipKnowledge Of The WorldHeadlessSocial Networking SitesNetworking Sites Author:Richard Blumenthal
“Social networking technology didn't really exist until 2004-2005. I had the idea to use this technology to bridge this gap between a general interest in addressing social issues and the practical action.” IdeasUseActionSocialInterestTechnologyIssuesPracticalsBridgesGapsSocial IssuesNetworkingSocial NetworkingSocial Network Author:Ben Rattray
“I think the whole aspect of social networking is vulgar and repulsive in a lot of ways.” ThinkingWayWholeSocialAspectVulgarNetworkingSocial NetworkingSocial Network Author:Trent Reznor
“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.” PeoplePersonsDoeSocialChanceMusic IsOptimisticConnectingNetworkingProgressionPhenomenalSocial NetworkingSocial NetworkElectronic MusicOptimistic Person Author:Paul van Dyk
“As information technology becomes millions of times more powerful, any particular use of it becomes correspondingly cheaper. Thus, it has become commonplace to expect online services (not just news, but 21st century treats like search or social networking) to be given for free, or rather, in exchange for acquiescence to being spied on.” UseGivenSocialPowerfulMillionsTechnologyCenturyInformationParticularNewsTreatsOnline21st CenturyNetworkingCommonplaceCheaperSocial NetworkingInformation TechnologySocial NetworkAcquiescence Book:Who Owns the Future? Source: Who Owns the Future?
“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.” WaySocialWalksAcceptanceTelevisionInternetLimitsMessagesRedPhonesBullyingBehaviourSiteVulgarCarpetMobileNetworkingYellingSocial NetworkingSocial NetworkRed CarpetSwearingForumsMobile PhonesSocial Networking SitesNetworking Sites Author:Louise Burfitt-Dons
“I consider us to be one of the first Internet-based bands, especially because we basically started our entire band via the Internet. Before MySpace Music even existed, we had a band MySpace page. We were one of the first fifty bands on PureVolume(.com), and we really built everything from the Internet. That's how we started talking to record labels, that's how we booked our first tours. Without the Internet social networking, like Twitter, we definitely wouldn't be where we are today. It is a huge part of the band.” FirstsTodaySocialTalkingRecordsHugeInternetBandPagesBuiltLabelsFiftyNetworkingSocial NetworkingSocial NetworkRecord Labels Author:Jack Barakat
“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.” ThinkingGivingTryingMindSocialAnswersFansUniqueValuableInsightOnlineNetworkingBlogsSocial NetworkingSocial Network Author:Cassandra Clare
“Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize its the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?” MenWorldGamesSocialRealizingHugeFarmingNetworkingSocial NetworkingBrowsers Author:Randall Munroe
“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?"” PeopleWantSocialPartyNetworkingSocial NetworkRetard Author:Lewis Black
“Pubcon is always one of the first shows I put on my calendar. Content is excellent, social is excellent, networking opportunities are excellent.” FirstsShowsOpportunitySocialExcellentNetworkingCalendars Author:Jim Banks
“Social networking inspires me a lot and how we are related and connected to each other.” SocialInspireConnectedRelatedNetworkingSocial NetworkingSocial Network Author:Nicola Formichetti
“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.” IfsLooksGamesSocialEvolutionInternetMobileNetworkingSocial NetworkingConsoleSocial Network Author:Chris DeWolfe
“[Facebook] is shaping a broader web. If you look back for the past five or seven years, the story about social networking has really been about getting people connected... But if you look forward for the next five years, I think that the story people are going to remember five years from now isn't how this one site was built; it is how every single service that you use is now going to be better with your friends.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsLooksStoriesUsePastRememberNextSocialFiveBuiltSevenConnectedFive YearsSiteSeven YearsNetworkingSocial NetworkingSocial NetworkStory People Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“A new survey found that 12 percent of parents punish their kids by banning social networking sites. The other 88 percent punish their kids by joining social networking sites.” KidsFoundSocialParentPercentSiteNetworkingJoiningSurveysSocial NetworkingSocial NetworkSocial Networking SitesNetworking Sites Author:Jimmy Fallon