Quotes About Social media

Technology is a double-edged sword for sure. You can use it to get in touch with somebody, to get to know somebody, to have really meaningful conversations, or you can use it to hurt and bully people.

We live in a country where posting 'Let's riot or something bruv!' on Facebook will get you a couple of years in prison, while writing a column saying we should bomb Syria is practically an entrance exam for public intellectuals.

One of the scariest things about ISIS is their ability to leverage social media to inspire individuals who have never been to Syria and Iraq.

The lesson: Be aware of the incredible power of social media and the dangers of reacting to news that you haven't verified.

Fear of Missing Out (FOMO), and it has been defined as "the uneasy and sometimes all-consuming feeling that you're missing out—that your peers are doing, in the know about or in possession of more or something better than you [are].

That sounded about as likely as Apophis and Ra becoming Facebook buddies, but I decided not to say anything.

It warmed my heart that my children had the right priorities: their skills, their images, their views on YouTube.

Zeus did not answer. He was probably too busy recording my humiliation to share on Snapchat.

G.I. Joe boxers!' Apollo screamed. 'OH—oh, I can't even... HAHAHAHAHA!' 'Aphrodite,' Athena giggled. 'You look simply lovely.' The gods couldn't stop laughing. Soon they were rolling on the floor, wiping tears from their eyes, taking photos with their phones to post on Tumblr.

Demigods today. I blame social media for their short attention spans. When you can't even take the time to listen to a god hold forth, that's just sad.

Through social media, we can start a global conversation. This creates an army of advocates - the power really is in the hands of the viewers.

What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way.

Social media changes the relationship between companies and customers from master and servant, to peer to peer.

There is a big difference between tweeting to your friend about something that is happening and having a real personal relationship with people.

The traditional media [in China] is still heavily controlled by the government; social media offers an opening to let the steam out a little bit. But because you don't have many other openings, the heat coming out of this opening is sometimes very strong, active and even violent.

Facebook and Twitter, online petitions, comments sent from apps such as Countable, and boilerplate emails that come from advocacy-group websites. Don't waste your time. Congresspeople don't trust these channels; they're too easy to hack, game, or blast out en masse.

Every time we encounter a troll, we say, 'Another village is missing its idiot.' If the world is a Global Village, there must be plenty of Global Village idiots on the loose. They're all trolling on social media.

YOU ARE WHAT YOU TWEET!

Lifting lives, 140 characters at a time.

Facebook just sounds like a drag, in my day seeing pictures of peoples vacations was considered a punishment

The Hindu sage Ramakrishna once said that the mind is like fabric; it takes the color of the dye it's soaked in. Soak the mind in a quiet, relaxing environment and it will become quiet and relaxed. Soak it in floods of Facebook and, well.…

Another study of adults found the same thing: the more people used Facebook, the lower their mental health and life satisfaction at the next assessment.

iGen is on the verge of the most severe mental health crisis for young people in decades. On the surface, though, everything is fine.

social media is not real life. Her photos, which looked like casual snaps, actually took several hours to set up and up to a hundred attempts to get right...