Quotes About Digital culture

I recently talked to an eighteen-year-old - a huge FIFA fan - and realized that he spends more time playing the FIFA video game than he does watching actual FIFA games.

It appeared in the Internet age, pianos, like physical books, were fast becoming culturally extinct. They'd probably stay that way unless Apple invented the iPiano, which fit inside your pocket and could be mastered via text message. With the iPiano, anyone can be an iMozart. Then, you could compose your own iRequiem for your own iFuneral attended by millions of your iFriends who iLoved you.

I definitely post a lot of memes and content that's isolated to Twitter that I wouldn't be able to do on stage because a live crowd doesn't have that same frame of reference.

When digital culture first came along, it was supposed to create more time, by allowing us to shift time around. Somehow instead we've strapped devices to ourselves that ping us all the time.

I dont spend much time on Twitter. I joined because I found it funny.

Every day I am being told to sign up for Tumblr, Yammer, Friendfeed, Plaxo, Last.fm, ping.fm or the hot social-media tool du jour that happened to get mentioned on Mashable.com. It is like a social-media arms race. Each one of these new tools is like a cool new night club. Hot today, gone tomorrow, replaced with something else.

Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do.

People see images now more than they see movies.

Everyone has a really short attention span nowadays with social media, our phones. Even me - I can't go without touching my phone every five minutes.

I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again.

Since the iPhone, the most transformative products have not been gadgets but services. Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat have changed lives, but they didn't launch to massive fanfare.

Facebook is the paradigmatic distillation of the Silicon Valley ideology.

I don't own an iPod.

My friends are all about Instagram and all about Snapchat.

I am the queen of hashtags! I love hashtags. I think in hashtags. I wish I could write everything in hashtag.

Twitter brings out the best in the keyboard bullies.

Genuinely skillful use of obscenities is uniformly absent on the Internet.

The younger generation is surrounded by the Internet, apps, and video games. But somehow, my books make them read.

The YouTube industry is quite alien to a lot of people.

With social media and all the new technology, there's just more interfaces around and reminders to constantly be working on our body.

I started using the Internet heavily right around the time when memes started to become their own form of entertainment. I started to get into every side of the Internet around 13-ish.

I don't even know what memes are, I'm, like, an old person, so I don't really know what a meme is.

Compulsive use, in this context, is not the result of a character flaw, but instead the realization of a massively profitable business plan.

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