Ryan North Quotes

I was stuck at home in bed with me and got more and more involved with the Internet. I used it to keep in contact with friends and to make sure I was up to date with everything that was going on in the world.

I figured it out at a young age: I could meet as many young people online and try to form my own family or my own record label group.

We don't want to own people's photos. We want to help them communicate with friends in whatever way makes them happiest.

We get to live in a time that we get to use social media as a tool. It's not just a face on a piece of paper, and that's what makes you someone's favorite model. We can have a very similar sense of humor as someone, and that's why we're their favorite model, or our personal style, off the runway, is why we're their favorite.

I grew up with a computer, and many of my friends were people I met online.

When I started Facebook from my dorm room in 2004, the idea that my roommates and I talked about all the time was a world that was more open.

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

I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to connect and engage with friends as well.

I actually think some of my best moments in life have been while I was with people from Instagram - whether it's super late nights getting a release out or being able to travel to places I'd never visited and meeting some of the most interesting people I've ever met.

Social media gives one a family to share one's life with.

The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.

Where are all our friends?

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

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.

Indeed, the spread of 'virtual' communities on the Internet speaks to a deep hunger to reach out to others.

I treat Twitter like I'm talking to my friends.

A writers' ring is where a group of four or five authors agree to promote each other's work on their own websites and via their social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter.

There is the negative aspect of social media, but there is a lot of positivity that comes from it too. Like my favorite thing in the world is seeing someone wearing our Iconics shirt.

As a journalist and longtime photographer, I love Instagram and the connection it gives me to my friends and family as I journey afar or for me to view their lives from my perch back home.

With the Internet, there are so many ways to connect with other writers who will be some of your best friends and best sources of support for your entire life.

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'm an independent game developer - there's not exactly an offline version of that. This is where my community is; everybody I'm close to I know because of the Internet.

People bemoan the loss of watercooler chat, but I think that there's more of that than ever. It's just that it's online.

The Internet can help you come out of your shell and gives you a chance to make friends who have the same passion as you, it's a real community.

Especially as newcomers, it's really important to have the Internet, where people can talk about you and listen to your music.