Dave Morin Quotes

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.

In 2007, Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would become a 'platform,' meaning that outside developers could start creating applications that would run inside the site. It worked.

If you look at Myspace, Facebook was a better product. It's as simple as that.

I think Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are the cornerstones of any social media strategy.

Facebook has focused on the conversation, but not really on absorbing the Web into its walled garden.

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.

For most people, Twitter is too hard to use.

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

There's only a few platforms that really aggregate content well together, Facebook being one of the best, probably the most diverse of all of them.

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

Facebook and Twitter have a ton of information they're trying to make sense of.

The problem with Myspace was always that it was never as strong a product as it needed to be. It left itself vulnerable to competition. It was only a matter of time before someone created something better.

I use Google+, and I find the quality of the comments are very sophisticated because there is more trust inside of Google+ than there is inside of Twitter and Facebook, for example.

It's never the end game. Facebook is now a platform upon which all kinds of applications are being built it's definitely not it.

While a lot of what is on Facebook is a better amalgam of what AOL, Yahoo, Amazon, and other Web pioneers introduced long ago, with a nice dash of connection and really identified community, this kind of thing is not a new idea.

Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It's a technology that brings people together.

More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.

Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook or MySpace.

Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.

Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist follows none of it, and every day it grows.

I don't have anyone's number; I just Facebook them.

I wouldn't single out Facebook as a concern, because we've got different local competitors around the world.

I'm on Twitter, Facebook. There's a lot you can do with it, and it's great to keep in touch. I try to throw a few things out on Twitter every day.

I rarely tweet unless I'm talking about 'The Bachelor.' I have a love/hate relationship with Instagram, though - it's like a rigid parent. It's much more restrictive with what can be posted, but you can write a full paragraph, post a video - it changes the game a little bit.

I wouldn't be without Google, and I love Facebook.