Networking Sites Quotes:

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

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

topic: Networking, Fit, Social, Social Networking Sites, Networking Sites

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

topic: August, Networking, Goes On, Social Networking Sites, Networking Sites

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

topic: Two, People, Together, Social Networking Sites, Networking Sites

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

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Thinking, Fans, Networking, Social Networking Sites, Blogs

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

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

topic: Giving, Over You, Architecture, Social Networking Sites, Social Networking

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

topic: Kids, Parent, Networking, Social Networking Sites, Surveys

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

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

topic: Bullying, Acceptance, Phones, Social Networking Sites, Social Networking

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

topic: People, New Friendship, World, Social Networking Sites, Knowledge Of The World

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

topic: Lonely, Book, Writing, Social Networking Sites, Chatting

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

- Mike Fitzpatrick

topic: Years, Networking, Social Network, Social Networking Sites, Networking Sites

Anyone can use these sites - companies and colleges, teachers and students, young and old all make use of networking sites to connect with people electronically to share pictures, information, course work, and common interests.

- Mike Fitzpatrick

topic: Teacher, College, People, Common Interests, Young And Old

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

topic: Business, Acceptance, Target, Social Networking Sites, Future Success

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

topic: Holiday, Wife, Villa, Social Networking Sites, Twitter And Facebook

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

topic: Data, Giving, May, Social Networking Sites, Networking Sites

We're being asked to continually be "authentic" and "honest" with the world through social media. There's a demand to post our wedding pictures, baby pictures (only minutes after the birth), our relationship status, and our grief and joys on Facebook and Instagram. Similarly, we construct persona through dating apps and networking sites. All of these social media networks exert pressure on us to share the personal details of our lives with unknown masses. So the pressure on the characters in "Openness" isn't merely romantic, but public/social as well.

- Alexander Weinstein

source: Source: www.raintaxi.com

topic: Baby, Grief, Character, Wedding Pictures, Our Wedding