“We have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works. Your behaviors, you don’t realize it, but you are being programmed. It was unintentional, but now you gotta decide how much you’re willing to give up, how much of your intellectual independence.”— Chamath Palihapitiya, washingtonpost.com
“We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection, because we get rewarded in these short-term signals — hearts, likes, thumbs up — and we conflate that with value and we conflate it with truth. And instead, what it is is fake, brittle popularity that’s short-term and leaves you even mor…”— Chamath Palihapitiya, washingtonpost.com
“The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops we’ve created including the hearts, likes, and thumbs up of various social media channels are destroying how society works. There’s no civil discourse, no cooperation; only misinformation, mistruth. And it’s not an American problem–this is not about Rus…”— Chamath Palihapitiya, fastcompany.com
“The problem with social media is it feeds your ego. Because your post receives a lot of likes, then you assume you're right. Because your post gets a lot shares, then you assume you're good.”— Lisandro Claudio, facebook.com
“Posting on Facebook, no matter what issue, can feel like walking across a minefield.”— Taylor Lorenz, thedailybeast.com
“Don't use the internet to spread negativity. We have enough of that in the world. I challenge you to SPREAD LOVE instead.”— Wesley Snipes, twitter.com
“Imagine a world where the comments you made online were worn around your neck for a day. Would you think twice about what you type?”— Wesley Snipes, twitter.com
“By separating consumer conversation from brand and publisher conversation, we are witnessing the death of organic branded dialogue and the birth of splintered social.”— Doug Rozen, cnbc.com
“One of the complaints we've heard about social media is that photos and videos from your friends are mixed in with content from publishers and creators and influencers. But your friends aren't content. They're relationships. That's why today we're separating the 'social' from the 'media.”— Evan Spiegel, adage.com
“If we all feel alone, how alone are we? If we all feel worthless then who is the currency of our worth being measured against?”— Russell Brand, amazon.com
“I know there's a lot of scary stuff in the world right now, but this is something I've been thinking about that I can't get out of my head. As a cast member on a show about tech., our job entails visiting tech. companies/conferences etc. We meet people eager to show off new tech. Often we'll see tec…”— Kumail Nanjiani, twitter.com
“nascent, adj.: I was guilty, early on, of liking everything you posted, wanting to leave signposts for how much I liked you.”— David Levithan, twitter.com
“Social Media isn't creating the problems in our relationships; it's only exposing the ones that already existed.”— Steve Maraboli, twitter.com
“I’m not ashamed that my boyfriend and I fight, but I never hint at our schisms on social. In fact, I tend to post a happy couple photo in the wake of every brawl, including this last one.”— Mélanie Berliet, shopcatalog.com
“The brilliance of socially distributed media companies today is that they’re not trying to fight an unwinnable war. The idea that we should take people to our owned and operated properties is frankly a losing strategy.”— Matthew Segal, digiday.com
“Social media is like rock ’n’ roll. If it’s not a little dangerous, what’s the point?”— Jeff Elder, medium.com
“If we spend more time talking about social media internally than we do talking to our customers on social media, something’s wrong.”— Jeff Elder, medium.com