Social media is a huge struggle for my generation in general – it’s a lot of pressure! Even having an Instagram is stressful. You have to make it look cool, posting it at the right time, and it’s become its own job and not something where you connect with people.
Social media companies must combine their mastery of the latest in real-time, location based or augmented reality technologies in the service of clear and consistent storytelling.
Some people are tired of hearing me tweet because they want me to stick to football but I like to use social media like I was a regular guy because I think I am.
Social media stars are only relevant because they make content, so they can never stop doing that.
The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
With modeling, social media is such a humungous part of it now. You get jobs because of the amount of followers you have.
The SEC has actually progressively loosened up the rules and recognized the value of social media, but the goal is always going to be to get information out as broadly as possible as quickly as possible.
The ‘Shawshank Redemption’ has nothing to do with China, but that hasn’t kept social media censors from blocking the movie’s title from searches on the country’s most popular Twitter-like microblogging service, Weibo.
Although social media is a relatively new form of communication, it has become the primary way retailers and customers are interfacing.
The dawn of the 21st century marked the emergence of the social media age.
Technology and communicating with people online or through a phone or through social media – it’s a false sense of intimacy and connection.
I think people find a lot to relate to in my social media, being a mom, and trying to live my best life, and I’m a fan of Oprah and other things people are fans of, and my heart breaks when there are tragedies, like everyone else, and I want to help.
Just as we teach our children how to ride a bike, we need to teach them how to navigate social media and make the right moves that will help them. The physical world is similar to the virtual world in many cases. It’s about being aware. We can prevent many debacles if we’re educated.
By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don’t need to wait for our grandchildren’s questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events.
Thanks to social media, we’ve also been able to show ourselves as we are. In the end, masks are useless. You have to be real.
When you’re on social media, your brain is being rewired.
I got involved early on in social media – I created one of the first social networks – and for me, social gaming was a natural evolution of that.
To share a story is in part to take ownership of it, especially because you are often able to comment on a story that you are sharing on social media.
Honestly, I feel like inside my soul, I’m very anti-social media to a point where I realized that I need to be active in part because of my profession, but I delete all of the social media apps on my phone daily.
Anyone close to me will be familiar with my frustrations with certain aspects of social media: the behaviour it encourages and attitudes towards the self it can breed.
It can be easy to become ‘friends’ or ‘connected’ with someone in a digital world, but it requires thought and strategy to convert social media connections into rewarding business relationships.
It’s worth noting that everything – from the Internet to electric cars, genomic sequencing, mobile apps, and social media – were pioneered by startups, not existing companies.
The one thing I’ve discovered about social media is that people love answering questions. In fact, it sometimes feels like at any given moment, millions of people are online who have been waiting for exactly the question you fire off.
Social media is not a safe space.
We have been talking with leaders: Change is coming; you can no longer have a closed regime with an open society – satellites, social media, the Internet – you have this kind, this kind of society moving forward, and you are running this closed regime; this is not sustainable. This cannot continue.
It’s funny how I use social media because I don’t use it to promote my restaurants that much. I use it for social issues and I think that’s what it’s for. I do a few things – I mess around with music a lot because that’s a passion of mine. If something strikes me and I want to share it, I do.
During the early days of HootSuite, when social media was still seen as a fad, I made the decision to treat our funding as if it were my personal bank account. That’s not to say I blew it on fast cars and fancy dinners. Exactly the opposite.
It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.
My goal there on the business side of things is to become the Dr. Dre of social media. He was mentoring younger artists and helping them launch their careers, like Eminem.
Social media has definitely revolutionized or transformed the world of pageantry, and not just pageantry, but any social cause that we like to lend our voice to, how we inform each other, how we connect.
When I think about it, I do start to worry about this whole social media thing. It does make me uncomfortable; kids should be out, living their lives, getting out and enjoying themselves.
I by no means quit social media.
The Social Wishlist on Facebook is a great example of everything right about social media.
You don’t need to go far to see the hatred and abuse that happens online. Even using social media is anti-social because people are always on their phones.
All of us in the modern world are constructing our identities, largely through social media, for a larger audience.
Unfortunately, often found next to things that are true are an enormous number of things that are not – in websites, videos, books and on social media.
Because of social media, we have a lot of personal essays floating around; you see them on Facebook: everyone’s either reading them or writing them. Some of them are great; some of them are diary entries put forth as essays.
I don’t spend too much time on social media, so I can protect my mind space.
21st-century activism is different perhaps in the sense that the individual can be more present in the process, especially via social media, but the underlying drivers remain the same as desire to change the status quo.
It is possible to assemble a narrative for yourself, brokenly, on social media, only seeing what you want to look at.
I just think women should love themselves more than they do. Because I think – with all the social media stuff – we look at ourselves too much, and we just destroy ourselves when we’re way cooler than we know.
It’s interesting now; with social media, you are actually interacting with fans.
President Trump’s frequent, unfiltered use of his personal Twitter account as a means of official communication is unprecedented. If the President is going to take to social media to make sudden public policy proclamations, we must ensure that these statements are documented and preserved for future reference.
As smartphones have allowed us to have our computers, emails, social media feeds, and a full surveillance system in our pockets at all times, stories of the law enforcement’s unease with that have been popping up in the press. And of course, the ones that become viral videos aren’t exactly flattering for law enforcement.
I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn’t use social media until that age, either.
I had a teacher, he was 86 years old and his name was Luigi in New York City, and he said, ‘Never stop moving. You get to reinvent yourself.’ So you have to find ways to reinventing yourself. Especially today, because it’s a whole different market – social media is so important.
Social media is interesting. It helps me connect with fans. It’s immediate. It’s a big part of my touring business – getting the word out via Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Previously, someone would interview me, and if they liked me, it’d be a great story. If they hated me, it’d be a horrible story. I had no way to say anything. Social media changed things for people who didn’t have a voice.
We do a lot of things that kind of annoy people and our fan base. We try not to get overloaded on it. For us, that means we don’t do social media stuff – we have an Avenged Sevenfold social media, but none of the band members have Facebooks or any sort of Twitter.
You don’t have to be famous to have problems on social media. It affects everyone, and it’s on there forever, and the things you say when you’re 15 are not necessarily what you’d say when you’re 25 or 35.
Real social situations are taking a back seat to social media.
I don’t tweet or do any other social media, so I don’t know what’s being said out there.
I think it’s important to note that after the airstrikes began in Iraq and Syria, ISIS began a very aggressive social media campaign calling for these types of attacks, these lone wolf attacks.
Not using social media in the workplace, in fact, is starting to make about as much sense as not using the phone or email.
The sports space is so full of opinion that you aren’t hearing from the athletes just speaking for themselves. We are such a Twitter-oriented society with radio talk shows, TV talk shows and social media – what you are missing is the authentic, unfiltered aspect of who these people are.
