Social media is a really cool way to tell your story to people who are interested in hearing it. It’s not getting put through the filter of a television executive who’s decided you’re too old to justify the expenditure.
Social media now make it easier to organize protest movements, even – or perhaps especially – in authoritarian regimes.
Social media has given companies access to unprecedented amounts of information on client behavior and preferences – so-called Big Data. But making sense of it all and turning it into actionable policy has been elusive.
The thing that’s wonderful about social media is that we are able to give a voice to the voiceless and to help educate each other. I benefit from it as much as I provide those lessons.
ISIL’s widespread reach through the Internet and social media is most concerning, as the group has proven dangerously competent at employing such tools for its nefarious strategy. ISIL uses high-quality, traditional media platforms as well as widespread social media campaigns to propagate its extremist ideology.
When you want someone to notice you, there’s one fail-safe way of making sure that they do: by plastering pictures of yourself across social media. Your motive might seem obvious, but so what?
I’m not sure whether it’s going to be the downfall of Rome – social media. There are too many secrets.
I think social media is an interesting beast – you can’t get too caught up in it. People can get caught up in it sometimes, but I think it’s important to live in the present and not on the computer screen.
It’s just been my mom and I for, like, three years or so. I love being able to not have to feel like I have to share the whole everything with the world, which is why I’m not very good at the Snap Chat, and I need help with my social media. Because I… I kind of just like having just us.
I’m very adamant on social media about recommending comedians to people if they don’t know them. I think it’s so important to go see them.
The NBA has been extraordinary in its use and embrace of social media; they are by far the leader in professional sports.
If you follow me on social media, you may know that I am an L.A. Kings fan. I’m not kuh-ray-zee, but I am definitely enthusiastic. I love me some Kaaannnngggsss.
Companies are hiring cosplayers to be promotional spokes models for them. There are cosplayers trying to develop a cult following even though they’ve only been cosplaying for less than a year or two. It’s all about the social media or Facebook likes.
You know what’s dope about social media, the Internet, and stuff in general? It’s that you never really realized before how much love you get, and now you can see people around the country wearing your stuff or wearing your face.
Social media campaigns and the savviness of ISIS and propaganda is what greatly concerns us Homeland Security officials.
Without social media, I’d probably just be a quirky, amateur photographer with a hard drive full of photos. I’d be cold calling respected publications, begging for a feature.
It’s hard to be taken seriously by anybody above the age of 18 or 20 or something when you’re doing a social media tour.
The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.
Social media, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter – I steer away from them. They’re alienating us socially as well as bringing us together.
It’s terrifying, social media. It terrifies me.
The whole point of social media is continuity and continual engagement.
I campaigned for Obama, and that was such a big component of getting the vote out, was social media.
Caricatured as navel-gazers, Millennials are said to live for their ‘likes’ and status updates. But the young people I know often leverage social media in selfless ways.
There can be a lot of pressure on girls to dress the way they wouldn’t normally dress: on social media, at school, among friends.
In 1998, there was no social media. People were barely on the Internet. So I had no input from fans at all. Zero.
In the age of social media, everyone’s a newspaper columnist, exaggerating what they think and feel.
I’m trying to embrace social media because it gives artists a little more power than we’ve had in the past.
Nowadays, social media is the easiest place to go to find something.
I have often felt the worlds of social media and the Internet are like a weird dreamscape. Even physically, when you are looking at your phone, you are out of it.
Brands must be very specific in their choice of social media platforms through which to communicate their CSR or cause messaging.
We live in a world where people consume most of their information on the cell phones. Anyone promoting a film or TV series is well served if they can create an active social media experience. It’s the reality of the modern world.
Twitter and social media have so changed the game for filmmakers, but especially for artists. It shrinks the world and gives chance to feel like they know you. But it’s a blessing and a curse. It can help build you up, but there’s also such anonymity.
Too many brands treat social media as a one way, broadcast channel, rather than a two-way dialogue through which emotional storytelling can be transferred.
When choosing between two similar applicants, hiring managers are increasingly turning to social media outlets to supplement information they are unable to glean from applications or interviews.
Apart from using it to spread the word about my translation company Blue Elephant and to talk to fans, I find social media an extremely powerful forum for charity.
I’ll go out to eat and have a really good lunch and try to shut the phone off, but I can’t, really, because the social media stuff will start happening.
The world of social media can be so nasty and negative, especially for women.
I really have paid no attention to social media. It’s never been something that I’ve done. There are people that put up tour dates and basically say what’s going on, but I need to get more involved, because I hear about rumors that are absolutely ridiculous.
I’m very happy, and I try to answer the encouragement I receive on social media through my efforts on the field, for everyone from the fans who buy a shirt to those who encourage us inside the stadium.
It’s going to be interesting to watch presidential elections in around 2040, when voters can dig up candidates’ teenage angst pics and posts from old social media and discussion forum archives.
As I was growing my social media following and doing things in Los Angeles, kids in my school would start to hate on me, tweet me stuff… you name it, they said it to me.
I’m theatrically trained. Before Vine, before any of the social media, I was an actor. I was going to auditions; I was taking the classes.
With every social media, there’s hate and things like that.
Sometimes I worry that science communication is just preaching to the choir, speaking to the converted. Social media gives us an amazing opportunity to reach new people.
With social media now, everybody’s faceless, but I assume these kids sending me pictures of myself of Instagram are twelve, thirteen years old.
It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.
When I think about privacy on social media sites, there’s kind of the usual suspect problems, which doesn’t make them any less important or severe; it’s just we kind of know their shape, and we kind of know how we’re going to solve them.
Social media is here to stay, and the social phenomenon that is bringing this about is consumers’ willingness to share more about themselves, share more about what they’re doing… people are even willing to disclose where they’re at. And this phenomenon is going to create huge commerce opportunities on the web.
Online I see people committing ‘social media suicide’ all the time by one of two ways. Firstly by responding to all criticism, meaning you’re never going to find time to complete important milestones of your own, and by responding to things that don’t warrant a response. This lends more credibility by driving traffic.
With the first two albums and with my social media, I’ve always been very open about who I am.
The hardest part of living without social media was remembering that my little life was enough, so I could just stay there and live it without asking for anyone else’s permission or validation. I realized that for me, posting is like asking the world, ‘Do you ‘like’ me?’
Most of our fans don’t get to interact with us or know our personalities except through social media.
I have said that propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation have always been part of political warfare. Social media and other new platforms have given it a new life and reach through which the fake news phenomenon can reach everywhere.
While social media is a one of the best tools to spread brand awareness, network, stay updated on the latest industry news, and catch up with friends or family, it’s another huge time waster.
You really can’t spend money on social media unless you really try. Social media is really more about effort than expense.
