Carine Roitfeld Quotes

Blogs are a great way to monitor and even participate in the chatter about your new site.

There are loads of websites devoted to me.

I was informed yesterday that there's a Twitter account for my laugh. Very hard to get used to things like that. Pretty amazing.

Twitter is the limit of me putting myself out there.

The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.

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.

There is a Twitter account apparently dedicated to my brows. I do not Tweet on it, but... they talk about who they've seen today.

Things like Facebook and Twitter, all that stuff, are about, 'I'm here! Here I am! I'm somebody special!'

Social media is huge. You can give people a behind-the-scenes look at your life.

I don't find a reason to be on Twitter or Facebook. This is my temperament, and I can't put myself out 24/7 out there. However, I am not judgmental about others being there.

The individual has now risen to the level of a mini-government or mini-corporation. Via YouTube and Twitter, each of us is our own mini-network.

That's the great thing about social media: you can make one move, and everybody knows about it, and I kind of like that.

When I first started blogging, I kept it a secret from my friends and then started to show a few people, and it snowballed from there.

I've used the Internet since I was in high school - it was my tool for self-promotion.

Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.

I get daily mentions in blogs, I get mentions in Twitter and in different social media... I know that gets books sold.

I started my Twitter account for selfish reasons: I wanted to have a place to post updates on my book signing tour and stuff like that. I never realized that I'd have so much fun tweeting. It's become the deleted scenes for my DVD of columns and podcasts.

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.

What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right?

I'm a very private person, so I didn't like this idea of tweeting about me. And then I realized, 'Oh, this is actually a brilliant device in terms of interacting with the fans.'

I'm not big on looking up myself. I don't get Google alerts, and I don't look on blogs.

Viral videos aren't just about being funny. They're about identity creation.

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.

The problem most people make with their media presence is they're trying to craft a media presence as opposed to just consistently publishing who they are.

With Facebook and Twitter, we're all our own little publicists in a way.