Quotes About Online

If someone annoys you on Twitter, check their feed first: you need to know if they're crazy.

If I follow someone, and I don't like their Twitter feed, I unfollow them and often have a changed opinion of the person.

In the 'Angel' days, all there was was a community that was like a chat room. If you were looking for feedback, you had to look for it.

Twitter is a very powerful platform for adversarial feedback.

You see the comments made about me on the Internet, and the Internet is a negatively-charged machine when it comes down to talking fighters.

I'm afraid the Internet is filled with people using really very intemperate language.

This whole blogging stuff has been bugging me for years. Talk about no filter on things. People feel free to do and say whatever they want with no vetting, with no editing, with nothing.

In reality, if there are 200 people commenting on something online, it's less than a grain of salt in a huge beach of humanity - who cares?

If I need a pair of tennis shorts, I'll buy them online. I don't really care. Not going to go and try on a pair and see how my bum looks. Who cares? But for things that you care about - I mean, a jacket and a pair of trousers, you've got to try them on.

On the Web, we can be whoever we wish to be, editing the face we show to others in ways that aren't possible in physical space. We can also fine-tune the complexity and depth of our interactions and relationships.

People are mean on social media, whoever you are. It's a shame people have to be that way.

From online local care portals to greater use of personal budgets we need wholesale change if we are to move the social care system to a level that preserves the dignity and comfort of those who depend on it.

Because there are now online databases of federally funded research, and these databases are searchable by keyword, sex researchers have to be careful how they title their projects. It's become a simple matter, for those who are so inclined, to find and target researchers whose work they object to on religious grounds.

Broadband, or a wide bandwidth data transmission that has the capacity to transmit a lot of information quickly, has changed the way we work, shop, watch movies, and communicate with loved ones.

Since the beginning of the internet era, it has been pretty widely accepted that when you join an online service, whatever data you put into it belongs to you.

Chinese sausage, which is widely available from Asian grocers and online, is sweet, rich, and enticingly smoky. I add it to steamed rice with strips of omelette and a few baby veg stir-fried with soy.

While sanctions against Iran and Syria are intended to constrain those countries' governments, they have had the unfortunate side effect of constraining activists' access to free online software and services used widely across the Middle East, including browsers, online chat applications, and online storage services.

Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.

The widespread adoption of broadband and the continued advances in personal computing technology are finally making it possible for the collective creation of an online world on a realistic scale.

I just had to block someone on Facebook who was impersonating my wife.

I don't shop online, but my wife buys everything at home. We buy sea crabs, fresh crabs, all kinds of things.

When I was creating my Luxhair Now wig line, I was listening to what my fans were saying online because I wanted to make something that the average woman could wear to work.

I laugh about it all the time, but, for whatever reason, a lot of people think that I wear a wig. I get emails and tweets about people commenting on my hair being a wig. It's one of the strangest but most entertaining things I've read about myself online.

I think it's important never to look yourself up on Wikipedia. I think the temptation to correct any interesting factual errors would be too much.