Every sector of society looks at digital analytics in a productive way. Limiting my ability to use them is just unacceptable. And by the way, Congress conducts polls using traditional methods. No one is using social media analytics as a substitute for that.
What’s different with Cambridge Analytica and more broadly with social media is that you are the target. People want to harvest your information in as granular a way as possible in order to, like, create a picture, a complete picture of who you are, ultimately to either sell you things or make you believe things.
Long before social media existed, the proto-tweets of advertising had penetrated American popular culture: ‘A mind is a terrible thing to waste.’ ‘Where’s the beef?’ ‘A diamond is forever.’ ‘Think different.’ You’d be hard pressed to find a writer’s craft that has more directly influenced the vernacular.
What is our capability when someone posts a public social media posting that says that they’re going to conduct attacks on the United States on behalf of the Islamic State. Why can’t we pick up that information and then stop that act of terror?
Social media is a weird thing. People have their keyboard and no face… they can say whatever they want.
I think it’s a blessing that social media is such a big thing.
In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results.
I do not wear a lot of makeup. On social media, this seems to work both in my favor and against me.
Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.
There’s so much negativity on social media, I don’t want to add to that.
ISIL particularly is very slick, very sophisticated, proselytizing and recruiting, and they are very astute users of social media.
The leverage and influence social media gives citizens are rapidly spreading into the business world.
I think the great thing about social media is it gives people access to you on a totally personal level that they didn’t have before, so it’s really important, and it’s a great way to get people involved and excited about what you’re doing.
I don’t get Twitter or social media. I really don’t understand it or read it. I see it as a distraction.
I started using Twitter a lot and realized I had a lot of fans. Then I saw that I can share my music on Twitter and share my YouTube videos on Twitter. That’s how I knew social media was going to be a platform to show my music. That’s how I started. I started with Twitter.
Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you’re being watched.
The feed was probably the biggest innovation in social media of late. But the interesting thing about a feed is that the more content you consume, the farther in time you go.
Through Black Lives Matter and social media, we’ve been able to have a really challenging discussion with America about police and how much it is investing in policing.
Sometimes you need that time away to disconnect from social media.
The EU can lead the world toward more humane technology. But doing so requires thinking more broadly about reining in social media platforms to prevent them from degrading our democracies.
There’s an adage that is an apt description of the new dynamic at work between brands and consumers connected through social media: People support what they help to build. But now that many brands are launching community-driven cause marketing campaigns, the challenge becomes what to do next?
I do feel there is a very rabid young base for ‘Black Mirror’ that will very much identify with the daughter character because of the invasiveness they feel with their parents trying to control their moves on social media.
As more people use social media to tell the story of the future, the wants and needs of more people will be reflected.
The whole social media thing is ridiculous. Everybody gets to say what they want all the time. That’s fine in theory, but it’s not civilised. Imagine going into a bar, and everybody in that bar is talking like people do online. They’d just get their teeth punched in.
My e-books sales have overtaken everything else, so I think all the marketing has become very much driven by the author now because of social media.
My cell phone is the number one way for me to communicate with my fans. I love the direct connection I can make via social media whether I am on the road or at home.
Social media is great in some ways – if we’re able to spread good messages.
Social media has changed the world forever. We’re not going to go backwards. People are not going to accept being poor, accept being excluded anymore.
Fake news is a big thing in the field of Social Media Journalism. Fake news can be as simple has spreading misinformation.or as dangerous as smearing hateful propaganda.
In the time of social media, I get lots of wishes. It’s overwhelming! What makes the day most special is the love I get from my fans, who try to make the occasion extra special. Almost 50 days before my birthday, they have started making plans. In fact, I have been receiving letters, too.
I’d like to think my company HootSuite is anything but a stodgy old-boys’ club. As a social media company, our employees are by and large young, progressive and open-minded.
Every brand has something on the Internet, whether it’s video or doing something on social media. It’s just another form that brands are starting to realize they have to be a part of.
I get most of my news updates from electronic and social media.
While commercials interrupt consumers’ enjoyment of a TV program, social media allows video to enter the conversation between friends in a non-intrusive way with an opt-in choice.
Social media is a great way to get discovered in the industry because it’s free, it’s worldwide, and everyone’s on it – a very powerful combination.
Using social media to hurt and destroy is callous, acted out by cowards hiding behind computers. My advice is to ignore negativity. Focus on the love around.
Keeping a secret in the social media age often is impossible.
I played at different restaurants with my dad for a good year before I started doing anything on social media. I wanted to hone my craft before I put anything out there.
I want to be one of the biggest social media stars ever to become an actor.
People see your life on social media, and they say, ‘Oh my gosh, it’s perfect,’ and I’m like, ‘No, every day, it’s not even just a struggle: it’s something new, and it’s a new challenge to make sure that I’m mentally stable and healthy and that I’m okay.’ It was just great to finally get it out and talk about it.
Social media is the wrong place to judge what India is thinking about.
My website, my email magazine, my blog, my books, my corporate seminars, and my public seminars all create the ability for social media to work and all build reputation and ranking.
I don’t go on social media with a mercenary intent to promote. That’s just wrong. I go to learn, to listen, to have fun, to find people who love what I love and who introduce me to new things. That’s where the joy is: in the interactions.
At a minimum the majority of search dollars will flow to a social media model because people care most about what their peers think and the technology is there for that information to be quickly shared on products and services.
Today, when you look at social media, you see that the narrative can be overtaken by people just from Twitter and Instagram. I know when Ferguson was going down those first few nights, I was watching feeds on the ground on Twitter, not CNN.
A ‘social media fast’ is a fast, I suppose like any other. In this case, you’re simply giving up whether it be a device or a particular type of social media site. And I do this at least once weekly.
I think social media is a slippery slope because while you’re projecting something out to people, they also project back onto you what they want to see.
Social media isn’t a one-way broadcast; it’s a multiway opportunity for dialogue.
Social media is a very, very powerful tool. It also gives power to tools.
If I post something on social media, like Instagram or Twitter, I never actually read the comments.
I think social media is good for promotion, stuff like that, but people are so negative. People are too negative. If you read the comments, it’s just too negative.
Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you’re human.
Whenever journalism students ask me what they should be doing, I say that if you’re on social media, you should be following a ton of people that you don’t necessarily agree with just to get their perspectives.
Social media allows comics to bypass the gatekeepers and connect directly with people who will want to come see them.
From its humble origins in college dorm rooms, social media has quietly crept into the boardroom.
I have to be natural and not doing anything fake, not lying on social media, in interviews and life.
Bridging the virtual world with the physical word is really when social media channels come to life and the magic happens. Because whoever coined the term ‘social media’ didn’t do us any favors. It’s not really media. It’s more like the telephone, less like the TV.
