Yolanda Hadid Quotes

It's definitely a good way to stay in touch with your fans. The main reason I really use Instagram is because I want to hear their thoughts and what would they like to happen and see if I can make that happen. Which is a really nice way of being in touch with them all around the world.

Sharing is the essence of social media.

Technology has changed the fan/actor interaction quite a bit. Now it's really easy to communicate with a large group of people in a really short time, and that... opens a lot of possibilities. You can do a lot of things with it that you couldn't do before. It's kind of fun to figure out how that can be employed.

I definitely had to do some soul searching, and there would be a lot of times where I would sit back and look at the Internet and say to myself, 'This is a way of being able to communicate with all my fans all over the world, other than just being in New York and only hearing the New York side of things.'

Between Twitter and Facebook and how close you can be with your fans and how close they can be to you these days is, I think, quite miraculous. It's like getting a greeting card every single day.

I've always wanted to connect with my viewers but there's only so much you can do through commenting and tweets.

My No. 1 key with fans is, honestly, to stay connected with them. I think it's important to talk to the fans online and respond to their questions. You know, live streaming, playing video games.

New media is like a megaphone. It amplifies your ability to reach more people.

I love Twitter. As an entertainer, it's a way to connect with the fans, and I think that's important.

I think there are a lot of really positive aspects to social media for novelists. Even though our work is pretty solitary, through Twitter and Tumblr and Facebook and Instagram and blogging in general, we're better able to connect directly with readers.

Social does not just equal Facebook. Social is how people interact anywhere.

For me, I guess the general reason for using social media is that the connection I have with people who are interested in my music is extremely important to me. That connection is like the pillar in everything I do. I want to embrace that connection and make it stronger.

It's interesting now; with social media, you are actually interacting with fans.

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.

I make sure to use both Twitter and Facebook a lot which helps me connect to the fans.

The whole point of social media is continuity and continual engagement.

Bridging the virtual world with the physical word is really when social media channels come to life and the magic happens. Because whoever coined the term 'social media' didn't do us any favors. It's not really media. It's more like the telephone, less like the TV.

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

The human race is already social, and the smartphone has everything needed to enable them to act on their social needs.

Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected.

Even with all the negativeness of the whole social media thing, I still think it's leaps and bounds more positive.

The film industry brings people together, and so does technology. I see them as similar platforms.

I was on Facebook. I was on MySpace. And somebody said to me, You should check out this thing called Twitter. I knew five people that were on it, so I started following those people and seeing what they were doing, and then I applied my own sensibility to it. The more that I shared, the more people started following me.

I want to interact with my fans, and I want to let people know what I'm doing and stuff like that because I'd want to know.

The good thing about Twitter is that there's not so much of a wall between you and your fan base. They can interact with you, and it makes them more endeared to you when you interact with them.