“The age of cable news changed our media distribution model by creating a 24 hour news cycle, which meant finding more information and more analysis (THE SUMMER OF SHARKS!) to keep viewers watching. The age of digital news has changed the distribution model in a much larger way: news consumers have t…”— Daniel Ketchell, medium.com
“But some people want to believe that Trump can be tricked into following any old schmuck that uses the right hashtags. Some people want to believe that he’s just some dope that somehow, without really trying, has bullshitted his way into the presidency. But neither case is true, and the progressives…”— Zachary Kagan, medium.com
“My best friend texts me after I instagram a photo of my roommate and me in a photobooth on a night where I overdrafted my account in order to buy drinks. ‘God your life looks so cool.'”— Kendra Syrdal, thoughtcatalog.com
“Twitter might still feel big for journalists who spend all day on the platform, and fully 59 percent of Twitter users do get news on the service, third after Reddit and Facebook. But only 16 percent of U.S. adults use Twitter in the first place, and only 9 percent of adults get news there. Compare t…”— Lucia Moses, digiday.com
“Friend: Help I'm so stressed. Me: Yes i'll help you pick an Instagram post.”— Brandon Woelfel, twitter.com
“People take you more seriously when you have a lot of followers, but even more so when your work has meaning. Money is somewhere in between.”— Jesse Herzog, twitter.com
“Is there a filter on Instagram that fixes Bitchy Resting Face? Asking for a friend.”— Anna Kendrick, twitter.com
“Resolve to take a social media holiday. Whether than means just for one day or longer, give yourself time to unplug and recharge.”— Jacob Geers, thoughtcatalog.com
“Unfollow every single person you’re ‘hate following,’ whether it’s a celebrity you secretly can’t stand or a frenemy.”— Mélanie Berliet, thoughtcatalog.com
“Stop caring about how many people ‘like’ your Instagram photos. If you like the photo enough to post it, what else matters? Social media anxiety is a waste of time.”— Mackenzie Newcomb, elitedaily.com
“His social media pictures have all be changed from that silly snap of him pretending to shoot a gun to something... well, sexier.”— Becky, thestir.cafemom.com
“When people care most about how their lives look is when they're most closed off to how their lives feel.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“I thought [Trump supporters] would fact-check it, and it’d make them look worse. I mean that’s how this always works: Someone posts something I write, then they find out it’s false, then they look like idiots. But Trump supporters — they just keep running with it! They never fact-check anything! Now…”— Paul Horner, washingtonpost.com
“My sites were picked up by Trump supporters all the time. I think Trump is in the White House because of me. His followers don’t fact-check anything — they’ll post everything, believe anything. His campaign manager posted my story about a protester getting paid $3,500 as fact. Like, I made that up.…”— Paul Horner, washingtonpost.com
“Honestly, people are definitely dumber. They just keep passing stuff around. Nobody fact-checks anything anymore — I mean, that’s how Trump got elected. He just said whatever he wanted, and people believed everything, and when the things he said turned out not to be true, people didn’t care because…”— Paul Horner, washingtonpost.com
“Social media has ruined everything... standards... mind sets... goals... society.”— Dylan Eagle, twitter.com
“There is plenty to do in this world, and plenty to be vigilant about. But let’s stop pretending that the ticker-tape of the news feed is anything other than what it is: addiction and manipulation masquerading as a social good. Then we wonder why we’re sapped of reason and willpower and perspective.”— Ryan Holiday, observer.com
“I reject the idea that the pot is nearly at a boil and I must watch it closely until the exact moment that it happens.”— Ryan Holiday, observer.com
“Twitter isn’t designed to help you get in and get out with the best information as quickly as possible—it’s supposed to suck you into either a contentious world of argument and debate or an echo-chamber that reassures you everyone thinks like you do.”— Ryan Holiday, observer.com