Pierre Omidyar Quotes

People are not just going to bars and meeting people; they're connecting through social media.

We can be incredibly disconnected in this day and age with computers and cell phones.

My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.

Technology has given us access to the world and its sea of content, allowing us to never speak to another person if we don't want to.

We're living in miraculous times where connections are made at the blink of an eye, the tap of a thumb, and the click of a mouse. We can never replace human interaction, but these simple actions can be powerful and meaningful to those we connect with.

My generation was born to work with social media - it's a natural part of our communication with the world.

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.

The Internet has introduced me to some of my closest friends.

I'm not very active on social media. I'm not on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram, or anything like that. But I think it's wonderful that they're out there. They're fantastic. I have a lot of siblings and friends that use it, and it's great for them. It's such a connected world.

The possibility of interpersonal communication has increased substantially with contemporary technology. But as compared with the major changes, which were long ago, these are not huge.

I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend.

I don't want to get into extended conversations with people on MySpace, because there are friends I have extended conversations with every day.

Once everyone is connected to everyone and everything else, nothing matters anymore. If everyone in the world is your Facebook friend, then why have any Facebook friends at all? We're back where we started. The ultimate complexity is just another entropy.

You can find lots of people like you through technology, and women in particular like communities.

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.

I think that new communications are wonderful and I am delighted to be a part of the Internet generation.

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.

Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways.

There is nothing wrong with Facebook in itself, except that it is not a very good tool to express the quality of your relationships.

There is no time and space in the digital world. People chat and collaborate through social networks. Cultural icons garner millions of fans online in locations they have often never been themselves. The boundary between public and private life is now everyone's business.

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.

It's amazing how directly you can connect with people via social media.

You're talking to somebody who two years ago couldn't figure out how to use e-mail and who now has carpal tunnel. It has totally changed in that these films would not be getting out to people the way they're getting out without the Internet.

Through historical accident, we've ended up with a global network that pretty much allows anybody to communicate with anyone else at any time.

With things like Facebook, it's really easy to think that you know someone that you really don't.