Quotes About Social media

iGen'ers are addicted to their phones, and they know it. Many also know it's not entirely a good thing. It's clear that most teens (and adults) would be better off if they spent less time with screens. "Social media is destroying our lives," one teen told Nancy Jo Sales in her book American Girls. "So why don't you go off it?" Sales asked. "Because then we would have no life," the girl said.

Another argument is that social media and texting are just teens interacting with one another just as they always have. Perhaps, but electronic communication is linked to poor mental health, whereas interacting in person is linked to good mental health. The two types of interaction are not the same.

I believe that social media's greatest gift is in providing every person the forum to be themselves, speak their heart & soul.

Authenticity is becoming more important among teens and millennials. They're more jaded as a generation.

I'd spent five minutes looking at Twitter once and felt I'd wandered into a poker game where everyone immediately displayed their hands against the cool green of the felt.

I'd spent five minutes looking at Twitter once and felt I'd wandered into a poker game where everyone immediately displayed their hands against the cool green of the felt.

In his entire life, George Washington never spent a second watching CNN Headline News or making a Facebook post, and he had no Twitter followers!

A brand is no longer what it tells consumers it is—it is what consumers tell each other it is.

Sheriff: There's nothing about her on Facebook, either. If she's not on Facebook, I have to wonder if people are just making her up, if she even exists Seth: I'm not on Facebook Sheriff: I rest my case

I don't blame fraternity culture for Emily's death. I don't blame parties or alcohol or the detrimental influence of social media and online porn on Today's Youth. I blame her murderer. Period.

I don't know. … Vanity? Insecurity? Kardashianism?

Twitter's strength - and its weakness - is that it makes it extremely easy to share every passing thought with everyone on your friends list.

Social media's greatest assets - anonymity, 'virality,' interconnectedness - are also its main weaknesses.

Social media is not only the most important tool for inciting terrorists, it can also be an effective weapon against them.

Social media constitute the most powerful readily accessible communications weapon Hamas has in its arsenal.

If you are looking to create an information weapon, the battle space you operate in is social media. That is where the fight happens.

But as far as Twitter, I'll be in a restaurant and I'll get home and somebody tweeted and they talked about what I ordered and what I was wearing. In some cases, that could be dangerous, because you don't want everybody to know where you are every second of every day.

I get on Twitter, one of my routines during the day, if I'm home is, I wake up, get a cup of coffee, turn on the Weather Channel and I'll look at what people are saying to me on Twitter on my phone.

More and more, job listings are exclusively available online and as technology evolves nearly every occupation now requires a basic level of digital literacy with web navigation, email access and participation in social media.

In the old world, people used to have to go to focus groups and ask people what they thought. Now, people are writing all over the Web what they think about things.

If I want to shoot my daily look, I just put it on Instagram - not on the Web site.

For me, social media isn't just about connecting with friends and sharing photos; it's a bigger, more tangled web that's led me to jobs working in television, speaking gigs around the country, and it's even helped me land my first book deal!

If you need five minutes every hour to look at tweets or to just surf the Internet, you need to schedule that into your schedule, allow yourself to do that. Because when people start procrastinating, what they've done is, they've tried to ignore that urge. They try to deny themselves time on Facebook or time surfing the web.

The 24/7 nature of online debate, on the web and across social media, has allowed for more vibrant discussion of the opinions we publish - and your own.