Facebook Quotes

• Our current predicament cannot be wholly blamed on a suffocating media sector. It cannot be wholly blamed on filter bubbles, trapping citizens in the prison of their own worldviews. It cannot be wholly blamed on Russian sabotage of our presidential election. Hard not to notice, though, that all three of those disabling conditions can be laid at the feet of Facebook.

  

  Bob Garfield
  • Prison
  • Blamed
  • Predicament

• On Facebook, 58 percent of fake profiles are “female bisexuals” versus

  

  Christian Rudder
  • Fake
  • Facebook
  • Profiles

• I'm not an idiot; I try not to look, but I see what people say about me on Facebook. I see other things written. But I don't care.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • People
  • Idiot
  • Facebook

• Facebook can spend and talk endlessly to defend itself so long as it keeps printing money.

  

  Adam Lashinsky
  • Money
  • Facebook
  • Printing

• I regret starting drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes and joining Facebook.

  

  Berhan Ahmed
  • Regret
  • Alcohol
  • Facebook

• I hear YouTube, Twitter and Facebook are merging to form a super Social Media site - YouTwitFace.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Social Media
  • Facebook
  • YouTube

• The iGods started pure—Google wasn’t sure they wanted advertising. Going public with their stock resulted in the need for quarterly returns. It forced Google and Facebook to bow down to the even greater gods of commerce. The question of access remains. Who will control the flow of information? Will a few get rich at the expense of others? Techno-enthusiasts at the annual TED conference envision a gift economy where the sharing of ideas leads to profound breakthroughs in science and education. Others fear the controlling power of information technology. What happens when the information we share freely is aggregated aggressively, when too much information lands in the hands of the wrong company or country?

  

  Craig Detweiler
  • Technology
  • Information
  • Google

• Thanks to Facebook, I never forget the birthdays of people I don't really know.

  

  Andy Borowitz
  • People
  • Facebook
  • Birthdays

• Today Facebook went public, just as Myspace's last user went private.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Today
  • Public
  • Myspace

• In an age in which we can project an image and score that image based on immediate Facebook and Twitter feedback, thus making a video game of life and a false-reality composed of lies, what gets lost is a joyful obsession with the work we create from the purest of motives, a sheer joy in the act of creation itself that causes us to lose ourselves in something else, and in a way die to ourselves over the absolute love of a thing we are breathing into life.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Life
  • Work
  • Age

• It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.

  

  Sean Parker
  • World
  • Believe
  • Presumptuous

• I believe that, not only in chess, but in life in general, people place too much stock in ratings – they pay attention to which TV shows have the highest ratings, how many friends they have on Facebook, and it’s funny. The best shows often have low ratings and it is impossible to have thousands of real friends.

  

  Boris Gelfand
  • People
  • Stock
  • Chess

• It's actually difficult to know what anyone wants these days. Tastes seem to change so quickly nowadays depending on the latest blog. The latest Facebook page. Twitter is somewhat important in telling you what you should want.

  

  Michael Gross
  • Important
  • Want
  • Change

• Twitter is your window to relevance , but Facebook is your home page for the Social Web...

  

  Brian Solis
  • Twitter
  • Relevance
  • Social Web

• The most annoying thing I found was all the people pretending to be me on MySpace and Facebook. I'm not a member of either, but apparently there is an 'official' Nikki Sanderson MySpace page, complete with rants about how terrible identity fraud is, which is ironic.

  

  Nikki Sanderson
  • Page
  • Facebook
  • Member

• There was a thing on Facebook that said, 'Describe George Clooney's wedding in three words,' and my answer was, 'Not invited again.'

  

  Michael O'Keefe
  • Wedding
  • Invited
  • George

• I was the first person to tweet from space, but now every astronaut tweets from space and does Instagram and Snapchat and Face - they have Facebook going. I think it's more of a personal relationship they have with space now. They see it as more obtainable than me watching my superhero Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon. It's like, there's no way I can do that.

  

  Michael J. Massimino
  • Relationship
  • Person
  • Moon

• I am not entirely off grid. I send a lot of email. But the way Facebook constantly alters its privacy settings to bamboozle you into giving more away is just underhand.

  

  Mike Bartlett
  • Giving
  • Constantly
  • Settings

• It took less time to build 'Instagram' than it did for me to get my work visa. The app was an instant hit, and Facebook agreed to acquire the startup for about $1 billion in April 2012.

  

  Mike Krieger
  • About
  • Instagram
  • Acquire

• Facebook is such a basic utility. It's something that is such a part of peoples' lives, I think it's hard to imagine it going away.

  

  Sean Parker
  • Imagine
  • Facebook
  • Utility

• White people on Facebook, I discovered by reading people's messages and walls, tended to lurk and judge.

  

  Katherine Losse
  • Judge
  • Discovered
  • Messages

• Sam Lessin, project manager at Facebook, suggests, “We as a species in the last few decades have gotten three new superpowers. . . . We can literally remember anything, we can talk to anyone on earth instantly for free, and we can process huge amounts of data.

  

  Craig Detweiler
  • Remember
  • Process
  • Talk

• Companies with aspirations to be larger publishers - Kabam, Kixeye, even Zynga - are moving aggressively off the Facebook platform to mobile and the open Web. Publishers aren't convinced that the costs of being on Facebook are worth it.

  

  Mitch Lasky
  • Convinced
  • Aspirations
  • Publishers

• I think Facebook's biggest problem is the glut of information that Facebook's power users are overwhelmed with.

  

  Sean Parker
  • Problem
  • Information
  • Facebook

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