Joanne Harris Quotes

I have a Twitter and have followers from all over the world. It's pretty overwhelming.

I'm not such a fan of the concept of social media, though I don't have anything against it. I still love to call the people I want to be friends with.

I know very little about the viral, electronic world, but I use Twitter to communicate not only information that I think some of the fans want to hear about but also ideas.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

In the past, a writer had to go outside and get to know others before learning about their work, but the Internet has made humanity more accessible for misanthropes like me. I read blogs, tweets, Facebook posts and Reddit threads where people detail their jobs.

I actually feel like I have developed friendships through Twitter, people that I've worked with I can kind of keep up with them. I've totally turned a corner. I get it. And Instagram.

Twitter makes me feel like I have friends all over.

The connection between someone in Leeds and a comedian in Los Angeles would probably never happen if it weren't for MySpace, so it enables friendship and connection far more than it limits it.

For most people, Twitter feels lonely.

I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

I have to say, I worry about Twitter. Not that it will survive - they don't need my blessing for that - but that it will stay the kind of open, community-enhancing-and-enabling site that made it flourish at the outset.

Twitter is essential to me because I wake up and check it religiously. It's a way I communicate with my fan base.

With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.

I was really excited by the idea that people were sharing information now and discovering information in a totally new way on the Internet via Twitter and Facebook, yet that experience was pretty clunk and just lots of bit.ly links.

I've been on a tweeting mission.

Social media presents an opportunity for business people to connect and know each other prior to a phone call or email taking place.

I think, like, Twitter is somewhat difficult sometimes, and it can be kind of negative.

Things like Facebook have made you feel as though you're connected to everybody. You've got a thousand friends on Facebook, but you don't actually talk to anybody. You're not close to anybody.

People simply don't make eye contact anymore.

I know people go on about Twitter, but it is amazing. It's whatever you want it to be, and all the women got in there before the boys.

Twitter, Facebook are so different from where I began. It's like a fire that takes off... I'm reading everybody's Twitter.

I love social media and the ability to connect to new people through Twitter and Facebook and share my real time experiences with my mommy network.

My personal view about how people should use Twitter is less relevant than our goal to provide the infrastructure for a new kind of communication and then support the creativity that emerges.

I think the best content on BuzzFeed is something you share with someone else in your life, and it connects you to them. And that's a big part of what e-mail's about as well.

I personally never got the gist of Facebook and Twitter.