danah boyd quotes:

Incantations for Muggles: The Role of Ubiquitous Web 2.0 Technologies in Everyday Life

Building new connections is a critical part of building a new economy. The American education system, as flawed as it is, is great for the creative class because of the way it mixes up networks.

Social networks are like grease - in some cases, gasoline - for our personal business networking machines. If you aren't plugged in, you will be out-done by better-connected, hyper-networked colleagues and competitors.

Business culture operates differently in different cities around the world. But I don't think it's possible to design one system that incorporates all social norms for networking. Human beings are just too diverse.

Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state of being.

LinkedIn is very good for browsing relationships and hooking into your contacts' networks. It re-connected me with high-level execs I hadn't talked to for some time, who then helped me close various deals.

The way you can understand all of the Social Media is as the creation of a new kind of public space.

Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life.

For higher-level execs with greater public visibility, social networks need to become as good at filtering as they are at connecting.

What happens online is you are constantly dealing with invisible audiences.

Neither privacy nor publicity is dead, but technology will continue to make a mess of both.

The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.

Most teens arenâ??t addicted to social media; if anything, theyâ??re addicted to each other.

Privacy is not a static construct. It is not an inherent property of any particular information or setting. It is a process by which people seek to have control over a social situation by managing impressions, information flows, and context.

We're so obsessed with [big] data, we forget how to interpret it.

There's nothing native about young people's engagement with technology,