Clay Shirky Quotes

I don't read blogs, I don't have MySpace, I don't have Facebook or Twitter - none of that.

Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.

In the Digital Age, recorders also tend to be oversharers, and with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest, they can do so on a grand scale.

Twitter became a major place to find out what was breaking on the Internet. Facebook became a place to share links. Social media really grew up.

Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you're starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.

I do a little Reddit, yeah! I pop in every now and again.

I did not leave Twitter.

Twitter, Instagram - I don't do it at all.

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.

I'm not on Twitter or any of that rubbish. I'm an old man.

I think the Internet is more layered and complex than just hating it or liking it. I find it to be more purposeful to talk about the way that it's conducive for relationships and making connections.

I like social media.

Social media isn't as quaint as it was when I started my Livejournal back in high school.

In our society, social media's so big in our lives. It's all over the place.

I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research.

Some people really like to get into Twitter, but it's not my thing.

The use of the Internet, the use of Twitter, the way protest movements developed... This is a different world.

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 really do love social media. I've always been crazy about - even like, remember AOL chat rooms? I always loved message boards, and I was always interacting on the computer.

What Google did in Web 1.0 was take a feature, which was search, and built an entire business around that utility. In Web 2.0, Twitter took a feature, which is sharing, and built a utility that allowed people to do that on a massive scale.

A lot of people use social media to share mundane things or for self-glorification. I try to use it to share interesting things with people.

I read the Drudge Report! And wander around Facebook sometimes!

While the digital age has done so much to improve our world, it has dramatically changed our social structure, often further isolating us from each other.

My opinion, young people go to the Internet. To the Internet distribution system right now, you put it up there and it's accessed by the world.

Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.