Social Media Quotes

Barton Goldenberg is simply the most effective transformational leader I have met. His business acumen is matched only by his ability to understand the dimensions behind how change stems from acustomer’s needs to an organization’s operations. Now Barton in his new book, The Definitive Guide to Social CRM, captures how an organization should plan, manage, and leverage social media as a means to increase the bottom line.

~ Cyrus Aram

It shouldn’t be about getting famous. It shouldn’t be about the size of your following. It should be about the way in which you connect with people in the world around you. It’s about finding what you’re truly passionate about, and letting that guide you. Fame is fleeting. But if you’re really lucky, doing what you love can last forever.

~ Justine Ezarik

Did she answer my email yet?' That's the new obesity.

~ Tom Rachman

Okay, so I stopped posting status updates on Facebook a long time ago. I noticed that whenever someone posts something completely mundane and stupid, like 'Sushi 2nite!' seventeen people have to comment on that. 'I ♥ sushi!' and 'Spicy Tuna 4 meee!' But if you ever try to actually say something serious about your feelings or, like, your life, every one of your 386 friends is suddenly mute. So there you have it: My life is a post with no comments. Less interesting than spicy tuna.

~ J.j. Howard

It’s even more awkward when we’re face to face with people. It used to be exciting to make plans with friends because you could sit and catch up and talk about what’s been going on in your lives. Now when you see someone there’s nothing left to say. You’ve already seen the pictures from their trip to Rio on Facebook. You’ve read their tweets about the latest diet they’re on. And they already texted you about the pregnancy scare. So you end up just sitting and staring at each other until you both start texting other people.

~ Ellen Degeneres

An eerie aspect of social media is the way the dead’s account lingers in digital space as a floating memorial. Friends post emotional farewells as if the departed will read them. But we all know that those words are for the rest of the world as if to flaunt their bond with the deceased like a new car or engagement ring. Just like any material possession that ceases production, a person’s value amplifies when they are dead. They have no future. They have no present. Their past becomes a limited resource that everyone is desperate to snag a piece of.

~ Maggie Georgiana Young

Like, love, follow, friend, and share positive content for good Netiquette. NetworkEtiquette.net

~ David Chiles

You look at pictures of Nepal, push a smile button, and you think that’s the same as going there.

~ Dave Eggers

It is proper Netiquette to provide positive reinforcement, feedback, for posts we Like. NetworkEtiquette.net

~ David Chiles

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.

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Great brands listen, learn and then leverage

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Autocorrect: making Twitter pedants delete and re-tweet since 2007.

~ Cassandra Page

People don't really trust advertisement they trust people. A large percentage of people make purchase decisions based on their friends review than just from advertisers. Brands that rely sole on adverts to sell, will eventually fade out. You need to get people to talk about your brand in a more positive manner without twisting their arms. If you fake it your will fade. So, focus on relationship marketing, because customers are the best brand ambassadors

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Unless you are a restaurant critic... nobody cares what you had for lunch.

~ Susanne Whited

Everything that happens now in the online world is part of a conversation.

~ David Amerland

Instead of finishing the sentence she slid a business card across the counter. It listed her contact information for every social media site I'd heard of, and several that were still in beta. Except for Google Plus. Even Internet-addicted fairies have standards.

~ Alex Shvartsman

One of the most glorious, yet tragic, things about being human was that, sometimes, you just had to learn things for yourself. Call it a flaw, call it a blessing, call it life. If everyone learned from everyone else’s mistakes, the world would be perfect.

~ Bart Hopkins

The Internet has given us the illusion of intimacy. We read someone's books, articles, sermons, or watch their videos online, and we feel we know them, so why not share what we think is wrong? But that illusion of intimacy is just that – an illusion. It distracts us from the important principle of reaching out to them personally first, and making the sometimes difficult effort of keeping it private and saving the relationship.

~ Phil Cooke

Relationships are like muscle tissue. The more they're engaged, the stronger they become. The ability to build relationships and flex that emotional connection muscle is what makes social so valuable.

~ Ted Rubin

Genuinely support people in ways you can. If you build great relationships and people get to like you for you, they will eventually promote what you do and would want to do business with you. The bottom line is that people love to do business with those they love and trust. Learn to understand people, your audience, their needs, and their real problem. If you are using a Facebook page or even your own profile, involve your friends in a fruitful discussion. Don’t just make a post and leave to expect likes and comments. Take time to leave a note for a friend, ask about their business and what interests them.

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Please, do not take the internet literally because it is data. Life happens. Thank you. Netiquette NetworkEtiquette.net

~ David Chiles

Social Media isn't about reach as much as it is about reach out.

~ Michele Jennae

For the ancient Greeks, who lacked our social media, the only way to achieve mass duplication of the details of one's life in the apprehension of others was to do something wondrously worth the telling. Our wondrous technologies might just save us all the personal bother. Kleos is a tweak away.

~ Rebecca Goldstein

The 21st Century Church must rethink ministry via the lens of technology. While most of them are consumed by their imbalance stance; bathing anointing oil and buying tokens for miracles, their counterparts are ministering to millions using the advancement in technology/internet. A powerful tool in the hands of the believer.

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Social Media is a shared delusion of grandeur.

~ Michael P. Naughton

If you're not paying for something, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold.

~ Andrew Lewis

Forget about 'Going Viral' and 'Go Give Value'.

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

The world was different before the war,' he said. 'We didn't have this instantaneous access to information that your generation has. The world was a bigger, more mysterious place - we still dreamed of secret caves in the Mountains of the Moon, and tiger hunting in the Punjab.

~ Ben Aaronovitch

In real life, it's good Netiquette to limit yourself to a two drink maximum when social networking. NetworkEtiquette.net

~ David Chiles

Audience engagement is critical to the survival of your brand, if you don't engage them you endanger your brand. It's social interaction.

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

If things continue this way, there will be two societies - or at least I hope there will be two - the one you're helping create, and an alternative to it. You and your ilk will live, willingly, joyfully, under constant surveillance, watching each other always, commenting on each other, voting and liking and disliking each other, smiling and frowning, and otherwise doing nothing much else.

~ Dave Eggers

When we care, we share.

~ Jonah Berger

Look, cell phone geolocation data shows very few clustering anomalies for this hour and climate. And that’s holding up pretty much across all major metro areas. It’s gone down six percentage points since news of the Karachi workshop hit the Web, and it’s trending downward. If people are protesting, they aren’t doing it in the streets.” He circled his finger over a few clusters of dots. “Some potential protest knots in Portland and Austin, but defiance-related tag cloud groupings in social media put us within the three-sigma rule—meaning roughly sixty-eight percent of the values lie within one standard deviation of the mean.

~ Daniel Suarez

As Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman document in their book Networked, people who are heavily socially active online tend to be also heavily socially active offline; they’re just, well, social people.

~ Clive Thompson

Making your own Netiquette is advanced internet use, but it's not that hard. It's all good. NetworkEtiquette.net

~ David Chiles

Twitter is more than just a collection of fleeting observations about everyday life. Twitter can connect people to events, information and each other in ways that have never been experienced before.

~ Ian Lamont

Tweets about the mundane aspects of your life contain something that is vitally important to gaining followers and taking part in discussions: Authenticity.

~ Ian Lamont

Followers, followers. Sometimes, with some things, it’s best to keep your tally down.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility. In a way it’s a transcendent experience: we lose our bodies, our messy feelings, our desires, our fears.

~ Zadie Smith

In an age of constant live connections, the central question of self-examination is drifting from ‘Who are you?’ towards ‘What are you doing?

~ Tom Chatfield