Keith Teare Quotes

'Instagram' is great if you want to share photos, but you're not that technical. Or, if you're not interested in sharing publicly, 'Instagram' becomes a place where you can not only consume photos and videos from musicians, or whoever, but send them directly to your friends.

When I signed up for Google Plus, my reaction after playing around with it for a little bit was like, 'Huh, I think Facebook should be scared.' In part, because it's a really elegant product. It's very fast.

Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.

We're very focused on making News Feed really good, making our photos experience really good, making messaging really good, and creating great location apps. That's the nature of a platform business of our scale. Most companies that are relevant to us will have some overlaps in some competitive way.

Highlight just hasn't proven to be very addictive to either me or my friends. We talk about it often. I keep running it.

As users flock to Vine, Snapchat and, previously, Instagram, the social platforms are challenged to continue to be the primary provider of these services to the growing army of smartphone users.

When we are thinking about stuff like embeds, we are not thinking about how we are competing with YouTube. We are thinking about how are we going to make it more useful for people to share stuff on Facebook.

On mobile, what are the core apps? It's basically messaging, mapping and review data.

If you were in Spain or Brazil, most of the population there is interacting with WhatsApp multiple times a day.

We just think that there are all these different ways that people want to share, and that compressing them all into a single blue app is not the right format of the future.

My favorite app is, without a doubt, Instagram. It's such a fun way to share photos and life's captured moments with friends, family and fans.

If you think about photo sharing sites, the mobile photo sharing and social, there's no competitive advantage, there's no obvious business model, so I never play with anything like that. I avoid it like the plague.

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 think we basically saw that the messaging space is bigger than we'd initially realized, and that the use cases that WhatsApp and Messenger have are more different than we had thought originally.

Twitter was designed to be this system that you just scan for information that's important or useful to you and then walk away, and if you wanna take a break you take a break.

HeyHey is my favourite app. It's like Instagram but for sound recordings, with little soundbites from people's days. We spend far too much time looking down at our phones, so it's nice to have your head up while you listen to what other people have uploaded.

On my iPhone 3GS, I use 'Instagram', 'Twitter' and 'Touch'.

WhatsApp I adore. I use it all the time with my friends.

I like Instagram - it's a good way to keep up with my friends without having to text or call all the time, and I really like Snapchat.

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

Snapchat is a really intimate medium.

Facebook was just John the Baptist. Twitter is the real deal.

If you get a WhatsApp message, you're probably going to open it. That's the interesting thing.

Providing the best photo sharing experience is one reason why so many people love Facebook and we knew it would be worth bringing these two companies together.

People really don't watch TV no more - it's all about social media. I think it's a great platform for showing off your brand, who you are, interacting with fans, interacting with people in general.