Top 20 Social Media Quotes of All Time
As most of you know, social media has taken the web by storm in the last decade. Although the end is nowhere in sight for social media, there has been a lot of conversation on the benefits, the fallacies and the societal impact of social media.
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Below is AnsonAlex.com’s list of the Top 20 Social Media Quotes of All Time. Some of them are funny, others are informative and some are just down right smart! I tried to pick the shorter ones because I believe shorter quotes are more precise, eloquent and memorable. Enjoy!
1. “Social Media is about sociology and psychology more than technology.”
– Brain Solis
2. “New marketing is about the relationships, not the medium.”
– Ben Grossman
3. “I like to say that Twitter is like a bar, Facebook is your living room and LinkedIn is the local chamber of commerce.”
- BSStoltz
4. “Twitter is a great place to tell the world what you’re thinking before you’ve had a chance to think about it.”
– Chris Pirillo
5. “Don’t say anything online that you wouldn’t want plastered on a billboard with your face on it.”
– Erin Bury
6. “The goal of social media is to turn customers into a volunteer marketing army.”
- Anonymous
7. “If content is king, then conversion is queen.”
– John Munsell, CEO of Bizzuka
8. “A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is – it is what consumers tell each other it is.”
- Scott Cook
9. “LinkedIn is for people you know. Facebook is for people you used to know. Twitter is for people you want to know.”
- Unknown
10. “If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.”
- Jeff Bezos, CEO at Amazon.com
11. “Social marketing eliminates the middlemen, providing brands the unique opportunity to have a direct relationship with their customers.”
- Bryan Weiner, CEO at Digital Agency 360i
12 “All one needs is a computer, a network connection, and a bright spark of initiative and creativity to join the economy.”
- Don Tapscott
13 “We’re living at a time when attention is the new currency. Those who insert themselves into as many channels as possible look set to capture the most value.”
- Pete Cashmore, Founder of mashable.com
14. “Our head of social media is the customer.”
– McDonald’s
15 “Engage rather than sell … Work as a co-creator, not a marketer.”
– Tom H. C. Anderson
16. “Social media changes the relationship between companies and customers from master and servant, to peer to peer.”
- Anonymous
17. “By creating compelling content, you can become a celebrity.”
– Paul Gillin
18. “The qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what makes it so powerful.”
- Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law at Harvard
19. “Social media is not a media. The key is to listen, engage, and build relationships.”
- David Alston
20. “You are what you tweet.”
- Alex Tew
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Here is a great one I just read. (and have to agree)
"To ignore social media would be like early man ignoring fire"
-Barry Roos
Michael,
That is a good one! I think I've going to add it to the list when I find a couple spare minutes! Thanks for the contribution!
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