Social Networking Sites Quotes

• Facebook and other social networking sites are bringing together spheres that used to be separate. People no longer have private and public lives; the line between the two is becoming blurred.

  Paul Achleitner

  Two, People, Together

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site.

  Jaron Lanier

  Networking, Fit, Social

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.21, Vintage

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• The blogs have been great and everything, but I think, for me, it's better to have a central place on the Internet for all my fans to go and show their friends my YouTube, Twitter, and social networking sites. To have that spread all on its own and have a central station to get everything Mac Miller.

  Mac Miller

  Thinking, Fans, Networking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The more you enter, the more you become locked in. Your social-networking site becomes a central platform - a closed silo of content, and one that does not give you full control over your information in it. The more this kind of architecture gains widespread use, the more the Web becomes fragmented, and the less we enjoy a single, universal information space.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Space, Giving, Over You

  "Tim Berners-Lee: Facebook could fragment web" by Josh Halliday, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2010.

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• A new survey found that 12 percent of parents punish their kids by banning social networking sites. The other 88 percent punish their kids by joining social networking sites.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Kids, Parent, Networking

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• Bullying behaviour can be communicated via text, mobile phones, internet, social networking sites, forums. But we can't limit it because these messages are then reinforced by television which glamorises yelling, swearing and vulgar behaviour as the way to walk the red carpet of acceptance.

  Louise Burfitt-Dons

  Bullying, Acceptance, Phones

  Speech, Tackling Bullying Conference, London, February 27, 2008.

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• Generally, social networking sites can be hugely promising and beneficial in opening new friendships and vistas and knowledge of the world, but they are also fraught with peril, when young people are reckless or headless.

  Richard Blumenthal

  People, New Friendship, Networking

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• I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It's like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books.

  Paulo Coelho

  Lonely, Book, Writing

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• Social networking sites like Myspace, Friendster, and Facebook have literally exploded in popularity in just a few short years.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Years, Networking, Social Network

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• The future success of online social networking sites as an advertising medium depends on its acceptance as an advertising vehicle that can deliver a message to a micro-target in a manner that will be well received and that increases the likelihood of interaction.

  Mary Louise Kelly

  Business, Acceptance, Networking

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• With the advent of Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites, genuine privacy can only be found by renting a private villa for a holiday. Hotels are now out of the question for my wife and I.

  Robert Powell

  Holiday, Wife, Networking

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• On social networking sites, we may expose ourselves, but we choose to do so. We are in control and, often wrongly, we do not feel we are giving away tradable data.

  Julian Baggini

  Data, Giving, Networking

  "Without fear of trespass" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2009.

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• Founded in August 2003, MySpace would go on to be the most-visited social networking site in the world from 2005 until early 2008.

  David Sze

  August, Networking, Goes On

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