I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back ...
People know the facts of a story just as well as the people on TV do, and they have more platforms to hold the media accountable when they don't get it right. We are a world full of media experts. That's a great thing.
Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you're human.
People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.
Social media is the future, with employers recognizing they need to start hiring people with the right skills.
Social media presents an opportunity for business people to connect and know each other prior to a phone call or email taking place.
One of the great ironies of the social media era is that some of the least social people in the world created it.
I don't live my life seeking validation from people on social media.
Moveon is not a one-way broadcast media. The Internet, when used best, is a two-way media. We have a forum in which people can post comments and those comments can be rated. We get a sense of what people feel most passionately about.
I think the great thing about social media is it gives people access to you on a totally personal level that they didn't have before, so it's really important, and it's a great way to get people involved and excited about what you're doing.
A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The t...
The future is in photos for social media. More and more people are not reading, so I try to attach a photo to most Tweets.
There's so many, 'no, black people aren't like that' barriers in mainstream media.
Some of my fans don't really like it when I respond to people who say things that are trying to be hurtful on social media. But I think it's kind of funny. There's a lot of things that make me laugh, that people would try and say those things. I mean...
Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them.
The one thing I've discovered about social media is that people love answering questions. In fact, it sometimes feels like at any given moment, millions of people are online who have been waiting for exactly the question you fire off.
You've got to be very cognizant of the correlation between social media links and business because they don't always correlate as highly as people would like.
I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world.
I love social media and the ability to connect to new people through Twitter and Facebook and share my real time experiences with my mommy network.
One of the things I've become immune to is people talking about market cap and social media platforms.
It's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media.
