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In the long run a medium's content matters less than the medium itself in influencing how we think and act. As our window onto the world, and onto ourselves, a popular medium molds what we see and how we see it-and eventually, if we use it enough, it changes who we are, as individuals and as a society.

Being on Facebook too much in a row is like playing chess in a black hole. You never know if the next move will lead you to a checkmate or a mate checked.

Despite its revolutionary promises, Facebook can turn our everyday lives into that wedding we have all heard about: the one where the bride chooses her prettiest friends, not her best friends, to be bridesmaids. It can feel like a popularity contest where being Liked is what matters, being the best is the only respectable option, how our partners look is more important than how they act, the race to get married is on, and we have to be clever all the time. It can be just another place, not to be, but to seem.

How different would people act if they couldn't show off on social media? Would they still do it?

In short, the community on Facebook is the lazy kind. Whereas true community requires hard work ("love one another earnestly," writes Peter), social media provide us a kind of community that requires little of us. 'In other words,' writes Malcolm Gladwell, 'Facebook activism succeeds not by motivating people to make a real sacrifice but by motivating them to do the things that people do when they are not motivated enough to make a real sacrifice.

Recently thought of deleting my Facebook account and start using twitter, but realized it's not easy. Facebook has become like the boyfriend I no longer like but scared to dump because I've invested so much time in the relationship.

Social media is not just a spoke on the wheel of marketing. It's becoming the way entire bicycles are built.

Strategy is about out-thinking your competition. Mark Zuckerberg, while at Harvard, built a website called Facemash __or fun_. Even today, Facebook believe that __one is better than perfect_.

Facebook gives people an illusory sense of being LIKED.

Since the emergence of Facebook, so many persons have become so vulnerable that they no longer have any secret

The difference between reading a good book and Facebook, is that a good book is always hard to put down, whereas on Facebook it's become too easy to put anyone down.

Some people I see are so talented that they are just wasting their time on writing at Facebook. Talent must be productive..

The first few days felt quite surreal for gone was that filtered world of perfect angles made up of peoples_ best moments and selves. Gone was the wormhole that one jumped into at the sign of any awkward silence or pause in conversation.

If we unite, we can surmount any mountain and make things happen for the betterment of all.

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.

The funny part of being funny is when you start seeing your fans writing funny words and attributing them to you.

Stupid quotes are only Twitters in disguise.

Fuck your personality if your best selfie doesn't get a hundred likes on Facebook.