The brands that choose to use me, my agency and social media have given me a face and a voice.
Judging by informal observation, most young Americans burn up their spare time buffing their emotional IQ and self-esteem with social media and non-stop texting. That’s great for eye-thumb coordination, but what about the satisfaction of actually making something?
Personally I estimate about a third of my time is spent on author events, social media and traditional publicity.
Most of my friends are in the industry – photographers, models, stylists, and social media kids.
I think when we grow up watching TV, the stars seem like stars. You don’t know what they went through. You don’t know how they got it. It almost seems unattainable. With social media, we are able to show people if you work hard, that you can literally do the same thing.
It’s amazing what social media has done for entertainment.
I don’t do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology.
Even with all the negativeness of the whole social media thing, I still think it’s leaps and bounds more positive.
I think something that’s really important to me is trying to do what I can from my position of power that comes with having a social media platform to dismantle certain systems that I think are really gross and harmful.
It’s a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don’t understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.
Ferguson shows the power of social media. This could have not been a story. Or it could have just been a local story. Or it could have been something that we saw only from a distance, through the usual filters. Instead, it gathered steam.
AdNectar specializes in deploying branded virtual items across top social networking properties and applications. Virtual items are images sent to communicate a message between users of social media.
Social media has become a primary factor in political campaigns.
I have no idea how to use social media for anything other than forwarding a good fart joke.
I completely understand social media as a method of promotion and digesting information, but it just seems like a colossal waste of time to me, and there’s a million other ways I’d rather waste my time.
I guess NBC must have noticed that one of my main staples is social media. So, when they approached me for ‘The Voice,’ I thought, ‘Why not be the first one to do it?’
There is this idea that your social media platform is the secret to success, but no one has quite proven that to be true, if you ask me.
Britain and America are two examples where social media will only show you what you like.
Julia, I promise to love you, to cherish you, in sickness and in health. No matter what, I will be there for you and our family. I promise not to make the social media another member of our family.
Everyone has different interests, but instead of constructive learning, people generally tend to lean towards the negative… and I think social media has somehow given fuel to this kind of thinking.
I’m just not a messy person… I don’t look for pleasure in social media.
Social media lacks insight, common sense, and emotion. Understand that while it’s easy to condemn celebrities on social media, people should also think of repercussions their insensitive remarks can make on the celebrities’ family.
Twitter was actually the holdout in what has turned out to be my total purge of social media.
Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They’re only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar.
A writers’ ring is where a group of four or five authors agree to promote each other’s work on their own websites and via their social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter.
People who take time out to dole out opinion on social media are negative people.
By linking with friends and ultimately strangers and building those relationships, social media is reweaving the social fabric that can then be used to scale your non-profit efforts.
Maybe I need to make a change, or maybe it’s living here in New York or using social media or working in media and entertainment, but I feel like I’m constantly trying to maintain this sense of, ‘Why do I do what I do?’
I think fans have an outlet. Through social media, you can hear them.
If you publish something in traditional media, it’s one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.
You don’t even know if the person you’re communicating with online is actually that person. And your persona on your social media – your Facebook or Twitter – may not be the person you are in real life. So then, who is the real person? Is it somewhere in between?
I’m naturally shy, so the social media thing is new to me. I haven’t really figured out how my voice sounds on social media, you know? I don’t want to tweet everyday just for the sake of tweeting. I want to make sure whatever I do there is honest. Social media can very quickly get fake, and I don’t want to be that guy.
Social media has created a digital latticework, but it has also, for some, created abusive commenters, silos, and validation rather than curiosity.
I think that people in the phase between being someone’s kid and being someone’s parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you’ve never been able to before.
I am a huge advocate for anti-bullying in our youth. What I have seen with the rise of social media is that children are not facing bullying on a playground, they are facing it on their cell phones.
Without social media, I wouldn’t have young girls messaging me from Australia or Mexico City or the Midlands, but I do wonder if I’d be on it if it wasn’t part of my job.
The Nazis and the Khmer Rouge went to great lengths to hide their crimes against humanity. Instead, ISIS posts its many crimes on social media for global distribution with seemingly no thoughts for the consequences.
I have a choice – I can either watch all the dailies, or I can follow the social media. I can’t do both.
It’s so funny how social media was just this fun thing, and now it’s this monster that consumes so many millennial lives.
Technology has allowed me to reach my fans directly. Social media: it has been a complete revolution of how to interact, promote and share things.
I am not on social media, as I don’t feel the need to communicate with the outside world. People who matter to me are just a call away.
I’m getting criticism on social media, saying, ‘Ah, you ducked Shane Mosley.’ I’ve never ducked anyone in my life. They need to look into it a bit more.
Social media can connect you with other people in so many wonderful ways – but it can also make you really sick of yourself.
I love social media and the ability to connect to new people through Twitter and Facebook and share my real time experiences with my mommy network.
Driving a car is no longer about zooming down clear lanes, the joy and freedom of the road flowing through your hair like a fine westerly breeze. It’s about solid traffic, petrol fumes, spy cameras, eco-guilt, and simultaneous social media.
Fashion is such an insider’s club, but slowly, the playing field is evening out. Through social media, everyone can have a front-row seat.
The dialogue and conversation about food is everywhere – television, chat rooms, social media outlets and among everyday conversations.
The entertainment world, television, movies, social media, YouTube stuff, we’re so bombarded with so much imagery and such a great sense of inhumanity, and there is a coarseness, a coarsening of interaction.
Social media has shaken up the world of sales, with Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter offering new ways to hound leads and unprecedented insights into clients.
I’m pretty much on all social media, but Instagram is the coolest, and I use it the most because I take a lot of pictures and I like to post them, but I link them all to each one.
I’m a social media addict.
My generation was born to work with social media – it’s a natural part of our communication with the world.
I am worst when it comes to social media.
Social media affords me an opportunity to interact with fans on a daily basis, not just for a few seconds apiece at a science-fiction convention.
The worst thing to do when I’m feeling insecure or a bit vulnerable is to scroll through Instagram. You only show when life is good on social media. Everyone looks happy all the time.
With the rise of social media, it has given me an opportunity and a platform to have a voice as a blogger and as an activist, but it has also made me nervous that I might become a meme or a viral sensation, all without my consent.
I think a lot of people get lost. They start following iconic figures and get drowned in the pool of celebrity. Our society, as we know it, is definitely changing. With social media and cell phones, you freak out when you don’t know what’s going on.
Social media has revolutionised how beauty is curated, captured, and consumed.
Social media absolutely changed my life and many others in a positive way.
