Quotes About Online presence

People's arrest tapes, mug shots, everything is online.

A blogger is constantly looking over his shoulder, for fear that he is not being followed.

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

Having an account will make me look sociable and normal.

In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn't exist online, it didn't exist at all. It showed me criticism's future.

If I go back to when Borat and Ali G. were doing it, they were more just TV, cinema, TV, cinema. Whereas I live in more of the Internet age where people like to feel like they can still touch you, and so it's important for me not to almost box myself off.

I first wore a hat after seeing a friend wear a hat. It seemed like a neat way to keep snow off my head without having to wear a beanie, so I tried it on for a while. Turns out I started wearing the hat at around the time people took pictures of me and put them online and in newspapers, so it kind of became part of my public image.

Kids need to remember that when you put something on Twitter, it's not like whispering to your friend, you've put it on a billboard that the whole world, including your own kids someday, can see.

I think there is a possible future where maybe we do just take a hard turn away from the Internet and we do start valuing our privacy again.

At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet.

No man should be on Facebook. It's an invasion of everyone's privacy. I really cannot stand it.

I am actually on Facebook, but I only have one friend. It's a private account, and I have one friend. Mark Zuckerberg.

I am comfortable with technology. I am a private person and would rather not be on Twitter or Facebook.

Fans can write what they want, and if we don't want that, our accounts should be private. If it gets creepy and borderline disgusting, then I block them.

There are a lot of people I dislike in the world. I mean, a lot. I don't follow any of them on Twitter.

I think we run into issues when our online brands are not rooted in who we are, and I think we need to have explicit discussions with ourselves about who we want to be, what we want to represent, and how we want to express that.

I wouldn't know how to be on Facebook if my life depended on it.

I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.

Every embarrassing moment is going to be shown on the Internet, whether the candidate likes it or not. The ones that can't deal with that are going to fail.

It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

I would hate to be in high school now. Psychologists talk about the 'imaginary audience' that teens seem to feel they have around them and that makes them think they have to keep up their image all the time. Now with Facebook and MySpace and 24/7 online access, that imaginary audience has become real.

What teens share online is dwarfed by what they consume. Pre-Internet, you had to hoof it to the grocery store to find a magazine with celebrity bodies - or at least filch your mother's copy from the bathroom. Now the pictures are as endless as they are available.

I feel like clout is something that builds up on your teeth.