John Battelle Quotes

Calling 'Instagram' a photo-sharing app is like calling a newspaper a letter-sharing book, or a Mozart grand era symphony a series of notes. 'Instagram' is less about the medium and more about the network.

Anyone can use these sites - companies and colleges, teachers and students, young and old all make use of networking sites to connect with people electronically to share pictures, information, course work, and common interests.

I'm obsessed with Tumblr. I love looking at all the pictures!

I think that content posted to Twitter is distributed to more platforms, services, sites, online and offline than any other services out there. Would love to see if someone can prove to me otherwise.

The minute you hear the word 'share,' you start thinking Twitter and Facebook. These are the places that people can very quickly share something they've just discovered.

People love photos. Photos originally weren't that big a part of the idea for Facebook, but we just found that people really like them, so we built out this functionality.

I like to compare 'Instagram' to the Library of Congress.

Everyone posts everything in real time as it happens.

Twitter's more fast-paced. Instagram, it's more, like, lifestyle and posting very specific, cool pictures.

That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual.

I don't do Facebook, Twitter, I don't do any of the social media.

Photos were seen as the most private type of content, and 'Instagram' really flipped that on its head and said photos can be really public.

I share so much of my life on social media, and I love the honest connection with the people that follow me.

The idea was that if it was a cool thing to do online, you should be able to do it on MySpace.

Facebook has gone from a nice-and-boring social network to becoming an identity layer of the web. It is where nearly a billion people are depositing the artifacts of civilization in the 21st century - photos, videos, and birthday wishes.

I have a big following on Twitter, and Twitter has been invaluable for mobilizing and quickly sharing information. But I'm not really sure that people are learning deep content on Twitter.

I dislike the phrase 'social media.' 'Social media' is merely a way to describe new tools in an old and narrow paradigm where we measure success by how many people are reached.

Nobody really cares about short links, but people do care about saving and sharing content.

I remember when people called Facebook a fad.

We want to be like a YouTube for viral images.

Social networks didn't exist when I started. Twitter and Facebook didn't exist. It was all about MySpace when I first got in the game.

More and more readers are finding important and interesting content through platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and now Medium rather than traditional publishers.

Imgur is all about images, some of which may be photos but don't have to be.

Social media has become a big part of our lives and I try to manage it well but it's the criticism that motivates me and keeps me going.

Not only do Imgurians get the opportunity to find the content that they love but also serve up their favorite content to others who visit their profiles.