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Quotes About Facebook

Facebook AI can not only identify 'meaningful communities', but also 'strengthen our social fabric and bring the world closer together'.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Of course, there is no lack of organizations that lament the breakdown of human communities and strive to rebuild them. A wide variety of groups, from feminist activists to Islamic fundamentalists, are in the business of community-building, and we will examine some of these efforts in later chapters. What makes Facebook's gambit unique is its global scope, its corporate backing, and its deep faith in technology. Zuckerberg
~ Yuval Noah Harari
The fake news industry was largely dependent on Facebook. The content farms' websites generated little traffic on their own, so their owners depended on gullible readers sharing the stories on social media, which usually meant Facebook.
~ Jeffrey Toobin
Trudy was an avid Facebook poster, a touter of family vacations and toddler artworks, a coiner of sappy hashtags like #motherdaughterlove and #thankgoodnessforgrandparents that Alfred logged on to Facebook specifically to be enraged by.
~ Jennifer Egan
Ellen laughs, as we've both made fun of those nauseating Facebook posts that use a religious concept to justify their thinly veiled bragging.
~ Emily Giffin
Publicly traded corporations, including Facebook, are legally required to maximize shareholder value, and while some CEOs define value expansively, most focus on the bottom line.
~ Eric Klinenberg
Owner of the facebook group All things Love Inspired/Harlequin/Heartsong ONLY..... look for it on facebook if you would like to join
~ andrea
Technology has the benefit of being easily scalable. A few weeks or months of coding can result in solutions that reap huge benefits. The global success of Facebook, Twitter, and Google are all triumphs of technology.
~ Shawn Amos
I check Facebook to see how everybody from high school's doing. I go on Reddit to see what my weirdos are talking about. Then I go on Tumblr to see what my feminists are talking about.
~ Jessica Williams
If democracy is to survive Facebook, that company must realize the outsized role it now plays as both the public forum where our strident democratic drama unfolds and as the vehicle for those who aspire to control that drama's course. Facebook, welcome to the big leagues.
~ Antonio Garcia Martinez
As attorney general, I would work with my colleagues in other states to launch a major antitrust investigation to look into the ways in which Facebook and Google are wielding and may be abusing their duopoly powers.
~ Zephyr Teachout
Facebook has never been merely a social platform. Rather, it exploits our social interactions the way a Tupperware party does. Facebook does not exist to help us make friends, but to turn our network of connections, brand preferences and activities over time - our 'social graphs' - into money for others.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.
~ Mark Zuckerberg
I feel like I've got a pretty good presence online through Instagram and Facebook. I just keep it simple.
~ Flume
If you're a detective, and you use your channels to get to Facebook, and you get someone that has access, you can go on and get anything you want.
~ Seph Lawless
As late as 2007, Facebook was still trying to figure out what it wanted to be when it grew up. An advertising space seemed to be the obvious answer, but how that would tap into the massive value of the personal data uploaded to the company every day remained a puzzle.
~ Kurt Eichenwald
You go on Facebook, you buy social advertising. And you can very cost-effectively target people who are in the market for your product from all over the world.
~ Marc Andreessen
People are building apps that are doing super-crazy things, and there's a lot of talk about modeling and microtargeting. Facebook can predict when people are going to break up, and Target is able to predict if a woman is pregnant before she knows just based on the type of lotion she bought.
~ Harper Reed
Our lives are full of distractions, and that's life. The sounds of the street, the thoughts in our minds, family on-goings, tasks at work, and Facebook friends, oh my!
~ Tara Stiles
Facebook deploys a political advertising sales team, specialized by political party and charged with convincing deep-pocketed politicians that they do have the kind of influence needed to alter the outcome of elections.
~ Antonio Garcia Martinez
My career was full of struggles and dreams, disappointments and peaks and valleys. But there was no Twitter, no Facebook or TMZ. Young actors could make mistakes and not become the focus of tabloids.
~ Ricky Schroder
While the Venezuelan people starve, the Chavistas post photographs on Facebook of their European vacations, their lavish parties, their designer outfits, the bouquets of fresh flowers that adorn their homes.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
Facebook turned me down. It was a great opportunity to connect with some fantastic people. Looking forward to life's next adventure.
~ Brian Acton
An hour later, I check my Facebook page. Violet has written: "Arrange whatever pieces come your way." My skin starts to burn. She's quoting Virginia Woolf back to me. My pulse has tripled its pace. Shit, I think. That's all the Virginia Woolf I know.
~ Jennifer Niven