Casey Neistat Quotes

The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?

Message boards are like going to a Halloween masquerade party. Everybody has a screen name.

It's amazing how quickly people on the internet can pick something up, but it's also amazing how quickly they can drop it.

I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.

I don't really use YouTube that much. I am a very Internet-oriented person, but I'm more of a Twitter freak - I'm always on Twitter. Or chatting with friends.

Reddit, which calls itself 'The Front Page of the Internet,' is more influential in shaping Internet culture than its comparatively small reach would lead you to believe.

The whole Fannibal thing is predominantly something that happens in a world I don't know about, which is the Internet.

Facebook is so ubiquitous now that it's like another manifestation of the web itself.

This wired generation is kind of cool.

MySpace is an addiction.

I'm a bit of a lurker on Reddit.

Sure, the Internet is the future, but what we do on the Internet is still very primal. It's all about connecting to other people, sharing emotion. It's our new feathers or face paint. It's all very raw.

I have no idea how to use social media for anything other than forwarding a good fart joke.

The Internet has created so many niche audiences that when millions or even thousands of people can be on the same page it's a truly special thing.

I've been an Internet person since early on, been a social media person since early on.

Between Twitter and Facebook I have nearly 70,000 followers, so my colleagues receive the responses. They show some of them to me, and I am always interested to read what people have to say. I filter all the information that reaches me, from letters in the newspaper, to conversations. There are many influences that shape my decisions, and often people on Twitter are thinking along the same lines as I do on an issue.

Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - what they're thinking about, what they're doing, what they're looking at - by paying attention to the small stray status messages that people are putting online. We're now able to stitch together these fantastic details and mental maps of what is going on in other people's lives.

I don't have a Facebook, I never have. I don't have Twitter, I never have. I think my parents are very protective, so they didn't want us to have any more exposure. But Instagram is a photo that you control. And you can talk to your fans, or talk about the movies you do - slices of your life. It is what you make it.

We on the internet. That's such a small community. We think we're so huge. If you went up to people on the street and asked them about it, they'd probably be like, "You had a album coming out?" Let alone it leaked.

I think social media is a great place to share ideas and to connect with other people.

Online dating is cool but I think Myspace and Facebook is a little bit off key.

Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.

I think that social networking makes people more connected, yet more distant, so there are people with less ties to real friend groups and less a sense of self.

I think social media is a revolutionary phenomenon all in itself.

On the Facebook side, I think it's a bit of an evolution, in that that company, which has clearly done amazing things, was, I believe, as an outsider looking in, was founded on a culture that was obsessive about the users. And they built a service that is very valuable for users, and that is to be applauded.