Social Media



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


2. Twitter provides us with a wonderful platform to discuss/confront societal problems. We trend Justin Bieber instead.
– Lauren Leto


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


4. 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


5. I finally realized it.  People are prisoners of their phones.  That’s why they are called cell phones
– Unknown


6. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas; what happens on Twitter stays on Google forever!
– Jure Klepic


7. For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction, plus a social media over-reaction.
– Unknown


8. No, thank you for letting me watch as you text.  I would hate to bore you with my company.
– Anonymous


9. Twitter is a place where one person can help another person anywhere in the world.
– TweetSmarter


10. Don’t say anything online that you wouldn’t want plastered on a billboard with your face on it.
– Erin Bury, Sprouter Community Manager


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


12. In case of fire, please leave the building before posting it on social media.
– Unknown


13. The best sign of a healthy relationship is no sign of it on Facebook.
– Unknown

14. They call it a ‘selfie’ because ‘narcissisitie’ is too hard to spell.
– Unknown

15. Personal branding is about managing your name — even if you don’t own a business — in a world of misinformation, disinformation, and semi-permanent Google records. Going on a date? Chances are that your “blind” date has Googled your name. Going to a job interview? Ditto.
– Tim Ferriss

16. Your personal brand is what people say about you when you are not in the room
– Chris Ducker

17. I log off because I’m bored.  I log back in five minutes later because I’m bored.
– Unknown

18. On Twitter, we get excited if someone follows us. In real life, we get really scared and run away.
– Unknown

19. Twitter is a great place to tell the world what you’re thinking before you’ve had a chance to think about it.
– Chris Pirillo

20. You are what you tweet.
– Alex Tew

21. We all make mistakes. But social media can frame those mistakes and display them infinitely.
– Unknown

22. How to write a blog…stare at screen, get coffee, eat cupcake, stare at the screen, scroll FB, check Twitter, refill coffee…
– S. Kuhn

23. Facebook is not your friend. It is a surveillance engine.
– Richard Stallman, programmer, activist, Founder, GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation

24. When you’ve got 5 minutes to fill, Twitter is a great way to fill 35 minutes.
– Matt Cutts, software engineer and former head of Google’s web spam team

25. A fixation with connecting with ‘friends’ online comes with the risk of disconnection with friends waiting for you to be present in the offline world.
– Craig Hodges

26. 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
– David Carr

27. I’ve had to learn when not to tweet. Like, you learn how to keep your mouth shut? Learn to keep your tweet shut.
– Dan Stevens

28. If you’re on Twitter, what you’re saying is, ‘I’m important enough for you to care what I think’.
– Donald Glover

29. What you post online speaks VOLUME about who you really are. POST with intention. REPOST with caution.”
– Germany Kent

30. There will be more words written on Twitter in the next two years than contained in all books ever printed.
– Christian Rudder, Dataclysm:  Who We Are