It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.

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.

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

The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.

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.

Reddit names are unconnected to real-world identities and it's commonplace for users to create 'throwaway' accounts to reveal sensitive information.

Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.