Max Joseph Quotes

The thing I love about Myspace is it's a safe place where I can talk to fans every day.

The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.

The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.

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.

Social media gives one a family to share one's life with.

I joined MySpace in September 2003. At that time no one was on there at all. I felt like a loser while all the cool kids were at some other school. So I mass e-mailed between 30,000 and 50,000 people and told them to come over. Everybody joined overnight.

There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it's a fantastic idea. I've never had any bad encounters with any of it.

Basically, Twitter can be your best friend or your worst enemy, and I try to make it my best friend and take it for what it is.

This is the beauty of social media: it helps you find people and then you can contact them fast and inexpensively.

Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.

I'm obsessed by Instagram.

My kids tell me to Instagram, so I do that. I have a few thousand followers.

I started a MySpace teen lit discussion group and invited people to join.

I like to communicate on my Instagram page with people: use it as a window to my world.

My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.

Facebook, from what I can tell, is the virtual equivalent of dropping into the homes of several million people, all of whom say at the same time: 'Hey! Let's set up the slide projector!'

Social media give me the privilege of learning about more people than I could meet in my whole life. Taken together, the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot, though.

I was a little late in the game for Twitter and Facebook and everything because I thought, 'Oh, I don't know. I just don't have time.'

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

On 'Chatroom,' everyone was so nice, and we had a really great time together; we were around the same age and got on really well.

On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another.

With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area.

Twitter! It's like being stalked by committee!

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.

I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.