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

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

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Today
  • Public
  • Myspace

• I cannot understand how sensible people still defend Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

  

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • Understand
  • Facebook
  • Sensible People

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Berhan Ahmed
  • Regret
  • Alcohol
  • Facebook

• 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

• Facebook has been around for seven years. It has 500 million users. If you can't figure out how to make money off half a billion people in seven years, I'm going to go out on a limb and say you're unlikely to ever do.

  

  David Heinemeier Hansson
  • Money
  • Years
  • Million

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Christian Rudder
  • Fake
  • Facebook
  • Profiles

• 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
  • George
  • Invited

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

  

  Brian Solis
  • Twitter
  • Relevance
  • Social Web

• I really think that the planet is growing a new nervous system. I mean, when you think of Facebook as the third largest nation in the world, that's so unprecedented, so amazing. Think of how many people are texting and twittering. The planet has created a nervous system for massive, rapid connectivity.

  

  Barbara Marx Hubbard
  • Created
  • Nervous System
  • Connectivity

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

  

  Andy Borowitz
  • People
  • Facebook
  • Birthdays

• We don't have a choice about Facebook any more. The choice element is less obvious than it seems. Maybe the 1bn poor people and a few hundred thousand rich people can afford not to be on it.. the rest of us don't have any choice.

  

  Andrew Keen
  • Choice
  • Facebook
  • Afford

• 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

• 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 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

• Facebook may not only propagate cyber-loneliness but exacerbate the pain of loss that estranged family members feel when they hear only indirectly, through a third-party posting, news of a child or parent with whom they have not spoken in years.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Pain
  • Child
  • Parent

• Most days I only go out to the post office or to get some food. Otherwise I work on my art or music. I check out the news, and generally spend a lot of time on Tumblr or Facebook or whatever.

  

  Ed Askew
  • Music
  • Food
  • Facebook

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