Tom Anderson Quotes

I've never gone on Facebook or MySpace.

I remember when people called Facebook a fad.

I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research.

In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games.

Google+ will never have a user base to rival Facebook's. It just won't. Not even if you include the 'users' who create accounts so that they can use other Google services.

If you look at Myspace, Facebook was a better product. It's as simple as that.

Facebook? I have no clue about it. MySpace, none of that. I'm the worst.

I personally never got the gist of Facebook and Twitter.

Facebook was founded on February 4th, 2004, and around February 5th, we were feeling pretty confident it would be bigger. We would see Facebook on every single laptop in class. We knew there was a bigger story here.

We felt like we reached a point where MySpace in its original incarnation had peaked in a way.

Social networks didn't exist when I started. Twitter and Facebook didn't exist. It was all about MySpace when I first got in the game.

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

Today Facebook went public, just as Myspace's last user went private.

I think MySpace is doomed, I give them about two more years.... I think Facebook is the next Microsoft in both the bad and the good senses. That's an amazing company that is going to do a lot of good and bad things.

Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004. On February 5, we were feeling pretty confident, even from observing the first few hours of usage. Students used it like crazy. They'd sign up then spend the next 3-4 hours on it. Then we'd go to lecture hall and see it on every computer screen there.

I remember when MySpace came out. It did do something pretty incredible - which was unite people around the world with common interests and common tastes.

I'm on the Facebook board now. Little did they know that I thought Facebook was really stupid when I first heard about it back in 2005.

Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.

I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.

I wouldn't know how to be on Facebook if my life depended on it.

I started hearing Snapchat in the same context as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. That got me curious.

Facebook and Twitter have a ton of information they're trying to make sense of.

People love photos. Photos originally weren't that big a part of the idea for Facebook, but we just found that people really like them, so we built out this functionality.

Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook or MySpace.

Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr are all 'User First, Brands Second' services. The brands are all over these services now. But for the most part, these services didn't do much to bring them. The engaged users did.