DeRay Mckesson Quotes

Real social situations are taking a back seat to social media.

Twitter's been interesting. I'm kind of a tech geek, but I've never been a Facebook or Twitter guy. Surprisingly, I've really enjoyed Twitter because I get to connect with fans.

We who work in technology have nurtured an especially rare gift: the opportunity to effect change at an unprecedented scale and rate. Technology, community, and capitalism combine to make Silicon Valley the potential epicenter of vast positive change.

Wikis and social networking are just tools.

The World Wide Web is more a social creation than a technical one.

People are not just going to bars and meeting people; they're connecting through social media.

It's a new era with regard to social media. It's just something that we have to adapt to and accept.

Technology is synonymous for connection with other people.

Some people really like to get into Twitter, but it's not my thing.

I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.

While the digital age has done so much to improve our world, it has dramatically changed our social structure, often further isolating us from each other.

I support any means to make real connections so long as that it does lead really quickly to real connections. It's the long-term online friendships and relationships that start to get a little hairy.

We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.

To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone.

Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community.

I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

Social networking inspires me a lot and how we are related and connected to each other.

The Internet has brought communities across the globe closer together through instant communication.

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.

I like connecting with people through technology.

Since the founding of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other mainstays of what technology writers have come to call 'the social Web' or 'Web 2.0,' a sizable portion of humanity has learned to be together while apart, sacrificing intimacy for control and spontaneity for predictability.

Tech is all about building human connections.

Isolation is no longer possible or desirable.

I am a little curmudgeonly about new media.

I love connected culture.