“Facebook is the boyfriend or girlfriend who is too popular to really be a partner with you. They are friends with everyone. Their calendar is too full. Even when you are together, you have to compete with others for their time and attention. It’s exhausting, and the cozy intimacy you crave seems to…”— Jeff Elder, medium.com
“Imagine you’re dating three very different people. Twitter is the high-maintenance, sexy boyfriend or girlfriend you are always swearing off for good because they don’t have a real job.”— Jeff Elder, medium.com
“I delete the picture of him from my phone. I delete his number. I think that if I just delete him enough, it will be like none of it ever happened and my heart won't hurt so badly.”— Jenny Han, amazon.com
“Thought I've been having lately: if you want readers to come to you directly instead of through FB etc, you have to make a case for your app”— Alastair Coote, twitter.com
“Majority of people who see these (sensationalized) posts on social media don’t actually click through to read the articles themselves. For many users, the headline itself becomes the story, even if it doesn’t resemble the original factual event.”— Tobias Rose-Stockwell, medium.com
“Media is a major component in the assumptions that inform our perspective. A focus on crime in news reporting doesn’t just change our opinions on crime in general — it makes us feel far more threatened than we should be. For most of us, perceptions are reality. When we see the world as a dangerous p…”— Tobias Rose-Stockwell, medium.com
“Every time you open your phone or your computer, your brain is walking onto a battleground. The aggressors are the architects of your digital world, and their weapons are the apps, news feeds, and notifications in your field of view every time you look at a screen. They are all attempting to capture…”— Tobias Rose-Stockwell, medium.com
“You do NOT need to carelessly share images of their dead body... Bear in mind this is a person. Not your #ootd or #selfie. Their death and their bodies are not yours to capture and share.”— Sade Andria Zabala, thoughtcatalog.com
“We talk a lot about our right to freedom of expression, but we need to talk more about our responsibility to freedom of expression. We all want to be heard, but let's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention.”— Monica Lewinsky, ted.com
“The echo of embarrassment used to extend only as far as your family, village, school or community, but now it's the online community too. Millions of people, often anonymously, can stab you with their words, and that's a lot of pain.”— Monica Lewinsky, ted.com
“Cruelty to others is nothing new, but online, technologically enhanced shaming is amplified, uncontained, and permanently accessible.”— Monica Lewinsky, ted.com
“I was branded as a tramp, tart, slut, whore, bimbo, and, of course, ‘that woman’. I was seen by many but actually known by few. And I get it, it was easy to forget that ‘that woman’ was dimensional, had a soul, and was once unbroken.”— Monica Lewinsky, ted.com
“You don’t have to change the world or find your one true purpose to lead a meaningful life. A good life is a life of goodness — and that’s something anyone can aspire to, no matter their dreams or circumstances.”— Emily Esfahani Smith, nytimes.com
“Most young adults won’t achieve the idealistic goals they’ve set for themselves. They won’t become the next Mark Zuckerberg. They won’t have obituaries that run in newspapers like this one. But that doesn’t mean their lives will lack significance and worth. We all have a circle of people whose lives…”— Emily Esfahani Smith, nytimes.com
“If people never become real, it's harder for them to disappoint you. That's why the internet is good for sad people. You can be with people without having to be with people.”— Melissa Broder, amazon.com
“I would rather be on the Internet engaging with half-imaginary people in a fake way than in real life engaging with real people in a real way.”— Melissa Broder, amazon.com
“I am a puppy for attention from imaginary people. I am lonely among real human beings and would rather be on my phone than engage with reality.”— Melissa Broder, amazon.com
“So many people hit the White House with their Dictaphone running. I never even kept a journal. I thought, ‘I want to live my life, not record it.’”— Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, nunncenter.org