Quotes About Social media

You think that social media is about hooking up online? For these kids [in the Tunisian Revolution], it was a military tool to defend unarmed people from murderers.

I share every aspect of my life with the internet. Whether or not that's a good thing I don't know.

There was no Twitter when I was in high school, so I can't even imagine the pressures or the expectations of pursuing likes or living life in that kind of mentality.

Life is like Facebook. People will like and coments your problems, but no one will solve them because they're busy updating them.

However, these days everyone holds their stupid smartphone in front of them the entire time in case somebody likes a dog picture on Facebook and they miss it by two seconds...

She stared into the distance and tried to think, honestly and properly, about her life: up here where it was clearer, and she could breathe, and she wasn't surrounded by a million people in a great hurry dashing or grabbing or shouting or achieving things in their lives that they plastered all over Facebook and Instagram, making you feel inadequate.

He asks me what my favored platforms are. I explain that I don't use any of them because they make me feel too squirrelly. Or not exactly squirrelly, more like a rat who can't stop pushing a lever. Pellet of affection! Pellet of rage! Please, please, my pretty!

He tells me that smart houses are coming, that soon everything in our lives will be hooked up to the internet of things, blah, blah, blah, and we will be connected through social media to every other person in the world. He asks me what my favored platforms are. I explain that I don't use any of them because they make me feel too squirrelly. Or not exactly squirrelly, more like a rat who can't stop pushing a lever. Pellet of affection! Pellet of rage! Please, please, my pretty!

The problem is that social media, which is seen as the pulse of the nation, is actually nothing of the sort. It's the pulse of the young and the idealistic.

He asks, "how hard would it be to go a week without Google? Or, to up the ante, without Facebook, Amazon, Skype, Twitter, Apple, eBay, and Google?"33 Wu is putting his finger on a disquieting new reality—that the new communication medium a younger generation gravitated to because of its promise of openness, transparency, and deep social collaboration masks another persona more concerned with ringing up profit by advancing a networked Commons.

Fifty years ago in his novel Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut playfully (but prophetically) called these "connections" a "granfalloon"—a group of people who choose, or claim to have, a shared identity or purpose, but whose mutual association is actually meaningless. The author offered two examples, Daughters of the American Revolution and the General Electric Company; if Vonnegut wrote the novel today, the examples could just as easily be Facebook or Twitter.

If you can't stop thinking about someone's update, that's called "status cling."

If you can't stop thinking about someone's update, that's called "status cling.

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

Thinks that twitter is like facebook's slutty cousin. It does everything dumb and whore-ish you're too responsible to do

Rather than virtual or second life, social media is actually becoming life itself—the central and increasingly transparent stage of human existence,

We took 350 billion snaps in 2011 and an astonishing 1.5 trillion in 2013—more than all the photos ever taken before in all of history.

My life depends on a bunch of hipsters retweeting a plea from a man probably sitting on a Yoga ball right now.

Although it is fashionable to decry President Trump's present-day use of Twitter to communicate directly with the electorate, it is a device that would probably have been used by most leaders if they had been able.

The Internet is for haters. Everyone wants to knock somebody down, but it's cool.

What I was excited about was the opportunity for punters to be part of politics. The whole idea was to allow the voices of people outside this weirdo palace of Westminster to be heard. I thought the whole social media thing might be really positive.

I post pictures that I want to post and say what I want to say. If that's three times a day or three times per month, then whatever.

There are things that people say that hurt my feelings or whatever, especially with social media right now. It can be the most amazing thing, and it can also be the most negative and detrimental thing.

It's unbelievable that people have the time and inclination to be as negative as they are on a public platform about people who accomplish whatever they do in the public eye.