Dick Costolo Quotes

I had been one of the earliest social media adopters, driven by a mix of curiosity and enthusiasm for the way in which it levels borders and connects people who couldn't really have connected otherwise.

I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook.

By playing on people's desire to belong to groups, Facebook creates a new, inclusive society. After all, Facebook is not like Harvard College. Anyone with access to the Internet can sign up.

I believe Facebook is going all the way. They're going to reach a billion members and will be the biggest company in the world. It will be a platform everyone goes on the Internet through.

What the interconnected age in which we live allows us to do is instantly connect with each other.

Facebook is such a basic utility. It's something that is such a part of peoples' lives, I think it's hard to imagine it going away.

Things that are interesting, people will pass around the Internet, around the world. And the blogosphere is only the tip of the iceberg.

What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way.

I definitely had to do some soul searching, and there would be a lot of times where I would sit back and look at the Internet and say to myself, 'This is a way of being able to communicate with all my fans all over the world, other than just being in New York and only hearing the New York side of things.'

Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected.

If you were in Spain or Brazil, most of the population there is interacting with WhatsApp multiple times a day.

There are very fundamental reasons we live our lives in social networks, and if we really understood the role they're playing in our society, we would take better care of social networks and find ways to take advantage of their power to improve our society.

What's the third largest nation in the world after China and India? It's the Facebook nation - 430 million people on Facebook.

Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you're starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.

The viral power of online media has proven how fast creative ideas can be spread and adopted, using tools like cellphones, digital cameras, micro-credit, mobile banking, Facebook, and Twitter. A perfect example? The way the Green Movement in Iran caught fire thanks to social media.

The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.

This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it's easy to establish a dialogue.

In retrospect, I do think it's fair to say that we were overly idealistic and focused on more of the good parts of what connecting people and giving people a voice can bring.

Twitter provides a platform that allows anyone on the planet - from a political activist in the Middle East to an intemperate golfer in the White House - to broadcast his or her thoughts.

Facebook takes it as a core truth that sharing and connecting is a force that will improve the world.

The Internet has turned everybody into a global person, whether they know it or not.

To be able to communicate with people on the other side of the globe is interesting, in an instant.

In one sense, Facebook is very focused as an address book, as efficient communication. It's like e-mail or like IM or something like that. And we do those things, too, but we do so much more. We try to focus on the whole world and all the things that people are interested in, rather than just people to people, or one to one communication.

Yo, it's helped me so much. I've connected with so many people that I've never imagined that I would ever know personally. I'm team Internet, for sure.

I think what's been really awesome about the Internet is the ability to reach people from so many different walks of life and stages in their life.