Quotes About Online

Everyone on the Internet is sad. Why else would they be on the Internet?

En el corazón de las redes sociales está el intercambio de información personal." Los usuarios están felices de poder "revelar detalles íntimos de sus vidas íntimas", "de dejar asentada información verdadera" e "intercambiar fotografías".

En la sociedad de la información, es crucial la capacidad de protegerse de ese 99.99% de datos que uno no desea.

la vida social ya se ha transformado en una vida electrónica o cibervida

People named Jon tend to be highly susceptible to false information online and tend to believe whatever already lines up with their worldview.

Web traffic figures for the BBC news website:

So whether you're participating in an online conversation or reading a book by yourself, your experience is a readerly one and a responsive one. The most significant difference is that reading a book is dialogically asymmetrical: you learn about the book, about its characters and perhaps its author, but none of them learns anything about you. I'm not convinced that this is necessarily regrettable: many of us should probably spend more time just listening, rather than insisting on being heard.

It is tempting to say, as my friend suggested, that these online identities are caricatures of the real me. It is certainly true that social media can unleash the cruellest side of human nature.

Some of the revenues have simply moved elsewhere (to streaming services, say), but there is a lot of free listening. The gap between what a consumer pays and the value he or she receives from the purchase is called "consumer surplus," and the growing prevalence of zero-priced goods and services online seems to be increasing consumer surplus.14

No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't.

Don't argue with people who write with digital ink and pay by the kilowatt-hour.

There are 5,000 great people for every jerk on Usenet. But that still is a lot of jerks. Proceed with caution and eyes wide open.

I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it.

The Internet is for lonely people. People should live.

A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet.

Having an account will make me look sociable and normal.

Online reputation management

In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn't exist online, it didn't exist at all. It showed me criticism's future.

I 'Facebook like' you, but I'm not IN 'Facebook like' with you.

Women who are harassed, at work, on the street, or even online, are subject to the same rigid purity standards as women who are sexually assaulted, Just by virtue of being out in public, we're overstepping certain boundaries.

Real word of mouth dips in and out of different spaces. You eat at a good restaurant. You mention it to people at the office. One of them emails your recommendation to his wife. She emails four friends, and they have lunch there. Two mention the restaurant to other friends at a party, and one of them blogs about it. Someone reads the blog and calls a buddy about eating there. They review it online. You get the idea.

What are the two biggest things online? Selfies and emojis. We're combining them. Instead of sending some character that means nothing with a hat - what if it was your face doing something? Me-moji.

Social media is a weird thing. People have their keyboard and no face... they can say whatever they want.

Unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day, you should delete WhatsApp from your phone.