Daniel Ek Quotes

The young people today are the 21st century.

I didn't even get a computer till I was 16, so I didn't have Internet when I was in middle school and beginning of high school. I didn't think to be looking things up and looking at message boards saying whether people liked me or not.

Kids are growing up with a bombardment of information through technology.

Technology is something you have to embrace because technology is part of our generation. Digital natives, for instance, are people who grew up in a world that always had the Internet and who always had smartphones. Millennials aren't too far behind: my generation of people, who were in the mix of the Internet when it first came out.

I thank God every day that there was no YouTube or Twitter when I was a teenager. I would have had a channel, and it would have been mortifying.

With social media now, everybody's faceless, but I assume these kids sending me pictures of myself of Instagram are twelve, thirteen years old.

I think it would be impossible not to be an Internet kid, coming from New Zealand, because culturally it's a little barren.

I was raised on the Internet.

Every pastor, youth pastor, and every parent is in competition with the Internet and the information it is spreading. Most young people don't get their news from CNN or CBS; they get it from bloggers.

The digitally native generation has no idea what has been lost to the freedom of intimacy that has no fear of being recorded.

I don't want to be on the Internet.

Regarding social media, I really don't understand what appears to be the general population's lack of concern over privacy issues in publicizing their entire lives on the Internet for others to see to such an extent... but hey it's them, not me, so whatever.

Teenagers try to hide what's really going on in their communication online.

I don't like showing my privacy online.

This wired generation is kind of cool.

The older you get, the more you realize you cannot win on the Internet.

I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.

It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It's just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.

I have this really bad habit of doing things on the Internet and forgetting that the whole world is going to see it.

Don't say anything online that you wouldn't want your mother to read.

I got a Twitter because some guy was pretending to be me.

You have to be really careful with what you put out on social media and who you're talking to online.

The Internet, Facebook, synagogue pamphlets, and the plethora of TV channels and cellular networks in our lives increasingly blur the boundary between the public and private sphere.

I never look at myself online, and I don't read gossip Web sites.

Social media worries me because it's not part of my world.