Social Media Quotes - Page 6

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial.

What goes up, must come down." Well, Issac Newton's law doesn't apply to the internet. That's what people don't realize. When you put something up, as long as there is an internet there will be that same stuff. When you're a senior citizen, what you uploaded to Facebook at a high school party will still be there. Whatever you upload to the internet, no matter how strong your passwords and security are, guaranteed the government or some advertising corporation will look at what you post someday. The only law that applies to the internet is, "For every reaction, there is an equal and opposite reaction." Post a photograph and you'll get attention. Post your old scanned Kodak slides and family home movies, you'll get a nostalgia rush and you'll reunite people with better days. But post a bad thing, thinking you can go unnoticed, and you'll never be able to crawl out from underneath it.

Content is not king – relevant, timely and authentic content is king

Come on guys, let's be serious. If you really want to do something, don't just 'like' this post. Write that you are ready, and we can try to start something" [Mustafa Nayyem quoted in Chrystia Freeland, "Euromaidan, Kiev: A Place Becomes A Movement"].

I guess all the time I spend on social media has made me believe that love exists above the surface, that it’s supposed to be light all of the time.

The way you react to challenging situations will say a lot about you. Actually, it will make or break your business.

A neon-pink 3 flickered and instantly disappeared again into the dark. The sight of it on my own device now made me sick. I held my finger down on the menu screen; each little app logo began to vibrate. I deleted the 3. I contemplated deleting everything. Cleaning it all away. The idea had a charm, a self-cancellation, many little suicides, a way to dispatch myself without actually going anywhere.

You can't build a strong personal brand by just posting status updates... people need more than that, they need valuable content, beyond updates and tweets.

Faced with so much ignorance and prejudice currently I can only comment that Facebook is a breeding ground for the worst fruits of our coarse personality.

Social media is like reunion, but the catching up is done through the comfort of your own bed. Scrolling through photos and statuses are too easy to not be done. You know about their social life and where they’ve been last weekend. Then you wonder why they have such flawless hair and make up. How could they look so effortlessly awesome?

Technology offers great communication tools. Social media helps make connections. And, heart to heart conversations take place face to face and not over email, Whatsup, Facebook or Twitter. Don't be deceived.

Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.

It's proper netiquette to add suggested friends to your social media accounts. NetworkEtiquette.net

Success-minded people know that first and foremost, in all we do, we must think of others first. By thinking of others, how they feel and what they need, will not cost you a thing nor will it lessen what you have to say.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

Today’s businesses can’t just use social media; they have to become social businesses, inside and out and from top to bottom. Ultimately, that is the goal of this book: to harness the power of being a social business to become the most highly recommended organization in your industry/category/niche.

while "freedom" from magic is certainly invoked as a constitutive element of modern modes of subjectivity, this freedom is purchased only at the price of potent new forms of social control and regimenta

If you are on social media, and you are not learning, not laughing, not being inspired or not networking, then you are using it wrong.

Social media spark a revelation that we, the people, have a voice, and through the democratization of content and ideas we can once again unite around common passions, inspire movements, and ignite change.

We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days … or hours.

How did you not know they broke up? You usually monitor his social media like he's al-Qaeda and you're the CIA.

A large percentage of people make purchase decisions based on their friends' review than just from ‪‎advertisers

The more you engage and connect, the more engagement and connections you will have.

Great brands listen, learn and then leverage

We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds.

she seemed happy, though perhaps a bit desperately so

If you are not EXCITED enough at your present life its mean your future is not EXITING. Excitement will give you ENTHUSIASM and enthusiasm will give you a positive energetic LIFE STYLE which could give you a successful exiting life…

Further, we have to ask if community is possible when, as noted earlier, social media is so based on self. 'For all the rhetoric about cyber-community, the internet is less a forum for shared public life than an area for individuals to express their egos and find information in tune with their personal needs and desires.'Further, 'Instead of renewing community, these ever expanding cybernetic systems tend to band people together in like-minded or similarly interested groups. They equip us with new means of pursuing our own interests more than they nurture communities of diverse people who nevertheless seek shared lives and common ends.'Schultze, Habits

An external locus of identity is unhealthy and yet the very thing that social media encourages in those with low self-esteem.

Tweet others the way you want to be tweeted.

But the truth is that the world has changed. And not participating in the conversation is a loud statement of its own to your customer base. You can’t control your branding message in any case because your customers are already talking about you online. The best you can do is to participate.

The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing.

Checking in on what our kids are doing online isn't 'helicoptering,' it's 'parenting.

I was basically born knowing how to casually stalk people on social media.

If you really want to dominate the competition and make big bucks, you’ve got to be the best. Do that, be that, and no one will be able to touch you. With one exception. Someone with less passion and talent and poorer content can totally beat you if they’re willing to work longer and harder than you are. Hustle is it.

WHEN IT MATTERS THE MOST....DON'T PLEAD THE 5TH WHEN YOU'VE BEEN TESTIFYING ALL DAY!SPEAK UP!

People have all day to talk about what makes them ordinary. It turns out that they want to share what makes them weird.

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Rumors travel faster then the speed of light

If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool.

Some say Twitter is overrated.Some love it, others hate it.I guess it depends on what you've got,If you have guts to write a funny plot!

It doesn't matter how many people you have on social networking sites. What matters is how you benefited them and how you benefited from them

For your own professionalism, reputation & appearance, it really is ok to NOT post every #video, picture, event or show on social media.On the contrary, holding back, waiting or not posting certain things all together can help much more than hurt.

We all have a responsibility with the words we post on the internet. If you wouldn't want your mother, daughter, sister or friend to read it, don't post it.

You never know whose tough day you will brighten with a few kind words. Tweet your positivity today!

To be truly grateful for the kindness of other and to have those you love in your life is a great and powerful emotion.

The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.

Your uniqueness is your greatest strength, not how well you emulate others.

A leader does not develop leadership by gaining more followers. Great leaders make more leaders.

The value is not in the noise one makes on socialmedia but the voice - the message being heard

The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.

Soon after Justine Sacco's shaming, I was talking with a friend, a journalist, who told me he had so many jokes, little observations, potentially risqué thoughts, that he wouldn't dare to post online anymore.'I suddenly feel with social media like I'm tiptoeing around an unpredictable, angry, unbalanced parent who might strike out at any moment,' he said. 'It's horrible.'He didn't want me to name him, he said, in case it sparked something off.We see ourselves as nonconformist, but I think all of this is creating a more conformist, conservative age.'Look!' we're saying. 'WE'RE normal! THIS is the average!'We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside of it.

We sometimes take photos (or record a video) so that we can later see what was happening while we were busy taking photos (or recording a video).

How to change the world:• spread positivity• bring people up instead of dragging them down• treat others the way you wish to be treated

The information superhighways will have the same effect as our present superhighways or motorways. They will cancel out the landscape, lay waste to the territory and abolish real distances. What is merely physical and geographical in the case of our motorways will assume its full dimensions in the electronic field with the abolition of mental distances and the absolute shrinkage of time. All short circuits (and the establishment of this planetary hyper-space is tantamount to one immense short circuit) produce electric shocks. What we see emerging here is no longer merely territorial desert, but social desert, employment desert, the body itself being laid waste by the very concentration of information. A kind of Big Crunch, contemporaneous with the Big Bang of the financial markets and the information networks. We are merely at the dawning of the process, but the waste and the wastelands are already growing much faster than the computerization process itself.

Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn’t happen by accident.

Facebook has been spreading across the continents faster than a highly contagious Asian bird flu!

Twitter," said Manny, waving his hand. "You know what that is? Termites with microphones.

When we think a thought enough times it becomes a belief and that belief becomes a pattern which, in turn, becomes how we live our lives.