Quotes About Social media

Maher looked into the camera and said: The tycoons of social media have to stop pretending that they're friendly nerd gods building a better world and admit they're just tobacco farmers in T-shirts selling an addictive product to children. Because, let's face it, checking your "likes" is the new smoking.

the notification symbol for Facebook was originally blue, to match the palette of the rest of the site, "but no one used it."16 So they changed the color to red—an alarm color—and clicking skyrocketed.

sacrificed to earn the small profit of occasional connections and new ideas that is earned by cultivating a significant presence on Twitter?

You "like" my status update and I'll "like" yours. This agreement gives everyone a simulacrum of importance without requiring much effort in return.

By taking the time consumed by low-impact activities—like finding old friends on Facebook—and reinvesting in high-impact activities—like taking a good friend out to lunch—you end up more successful in your goal.

The constant exposure to their friends' carefully curated portrayals of their lives generates feelings of inadequacy—especially during periods when they're already feeling low—and for teenagers, it provides a cruelly effective way to be publicly excluded.

She went in the pool," she finished for me. "Ohmigod. She was killed while tweeting. It was Twittercide!

I know what Twitter is; I don't use it. I don't use Facebook, so luckily, it does zero to my ego.

In 1998, there was no social media. People were barely on the Internet. So I had no input from fans at all. Zero.

The delta between who I am on Twitter and in real life is zero.

Facebook has created a rash of mental zombies in a meme-feeding frenzy.

I'd be lying if I said certain comments don't affect you. We're human beings. I had to zone out of it and had to take myself off social media as a player because I didn't want to see it.

It wasn't until a few years ago, when I was going through old Facebook pictures with a friend, and happened upon a photo of a monkey at a zoo that had been tagged as me by an old housemate, that I realized I'd normalized so much racism.

We're used to the characteristics of social media - participation, connection, instant gratification - and when school doesn't offer the same, it's easy to tune out.

Social media seemed to promise a way to better connect with people; instead, it seems to have made it easier to tune out the people we don't agree with.

I like that with social media, you can choose how much you want to reveal. If there is an issue that requires clarification, at least you can turn to social media. You know it's coming from the horse's mouth.

When I graduated from college, I got a 9-to-5 traditional job doing social media for a company, and I'd spend all day long fighting with the system of getting things approved and the fact that social media has such a quick turnaround. Things had to be very reactive and instant.

While social media skills were once a 'nice-to-have,' accreditation in the space is becoming a requirement for many of these job titles. Hiring managers and job seekers are realizing that printing stacks of resumes is turning passe, and social media is rising as the new way of generating real-time networking opportunities.

As someone who asks questions for a living, there are few things that annoy me more than people who won't ask for themselves. Social media is a great help, but so is something as simple as turning on your television or powering up your laptop to watch a smart news show.

Everything Neymar does turns into news. If he gets emotional, they criticise. If he colours his hair, they criticise.

The spread of communications technologies - social media, TV news channels - aggravates societal divisions and discord. All that online snarling is making us jittery.

We live in a world where people consume most of their information on the cell phones. Anyone promoting a film or TV series is well served if they can create an active social media experience. It's the reality of the modern world.

I think a lot of social media creators have always been, like, content and haven't pushed the limits because no one else had pushed the limits before. I say to myself, 'How can I create my own TV show online every day and actually make it a real production and put effort into it?'

We start caring way too much about that new TV show or how many likes we're getting on Facebook or what our mother will think of our new house plant. These are bad values that turn us into frivolous people.