On Twitter, if you want to quote someone else, you say, RT, re-tweet, that person's name, and then what they said before. And it's a way of essentially saying, I'm not saying this, but my friend said this and I thought this was interesting.

If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity than in hanging out with secular progressives on the World Politics sub-reddit.

Twitter is my main tool for ensuring news balance.

You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.

On Twitter, if you want to quote someone else, you say, RT, re-tweet, that person's name, and then what they said before. And it's a way of essentially saying, I'm not saying this, but my friend said this and I thought this was interesting.

It's becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we're trying to get new groups of people talking.

People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people.