This document contains various quotes about social media from different individuals. Stowe Boyd argues that personal expression should be set aside for career benefits. Pete Fields says friendships developed online can be as real as offline. Stowe Boyd again claims web culture is the only culture. Chris Brogan compares social networks to toilets. Dr. Francis Collins discusses underestimating long term technology impacts.

1. Quotes About Social Media

2. If you want the benefits of a
working career you should put
aside the notion that you have a
right to personal expression. By
Stowe Boyd

3. Friendships developed virtually
are as real as those developed at
the company picnic.
By Pete Fields

4. Web culture is the only culture we
have. By Stowe Boyd

5. Social networking sites are like
toilets. By Chris Brogan

6. We tend to overestimate the short
term impact of a technology and
underestimate the long term impact.
By Dr. Francis Collins

7. Innovation comes only from readily
and seamlessly sharing
information rather than hoarding it.
By Tom Peters

8. Its a fact more people are doing
stuff because they are motivated
by others they are connected
to, instead of sitting alone in their
apartment doing nothing. By Evan
Williams Twitter

9. The value of being connected and
transparent is so high that the road
bumps of privacy issues are much
lower in actual experience than
peoples fears. By Reid Hoffman

10. Are my customers loyal?
Absolutely! 100%. Right till the
moment someone offers a better
service. By Jeff Bezos

11. It’s not a department that owns
social media, it’s the consumer
that owns. By Heather Oldani

12. It’s not so much resources, but the
strategy. By Marius Woldberg

13. The only irreplaceable capital an
organization possesses is the
knowledge and ability of its people.
The productivity of that capital
depends on how effectively people
share their competence with those
who can use it. By Andrew
Carnegie

14. This social networking stuff is
getting out of hand…Everybody’s
got My space this, or Facebook
that. Now I hear there’s a special
site created exclusively for
astronauts….Space book. By
Steve Etzkorn

15. Where no power, knowledge flows
freely. By Godfried Boogaard

16. The future is already here - it’s just
unevenly distributed. By William
Gibson

17. In five years, the idea of broadcast
will be gone. By Tim Kring

18. Use crowd sourcing to find
individuals that can help you, not to
harvest collective intelligence. By
Surowiecki

19. Social media do not really exist.
It's just media. What people do
with it.... makes it social or anti-
social. By Jerry van den Brooke

20. Social media is adding value to the
brand. By Majd Shweikeh