Quotes tagged ‘Social Media’

(339 total)

“If she packaged the perfect Facebook life, maybe she would start to believe it herself.”

“Little kids, little problems. Wait till you’ve got drugs and sex and social media to worry about.”

“It’s very important that your followers know when to expect a new picture. ‘If you’re going to be daily, you have to post daily...Your audience will expect that rhythm.'”

— Rebecca Hiscott, huffingtonpost.com

“It’s just based on the moment...Every second is the ultimate zeitgeist. So you narrow it down to those tiny moments. You just have to know the internet. You have to love it so much. You have to want to fuck the internet.”

— Josh Ostrovsky, theguardian.com

“It's like I tell my daughter, you're going to swipe right on a lot of toads before Prince Charming DM's you out of the blue.”

— Trevor , twitter.com

“The Internet has made it so we don’t have to sit together anymore. It’s so self-absorbed. No one has to talk to each other anymore, and people don’t realize that that is killing us.”

— Leslie Jones, latimes.com

“I use to wonder why some celebs don't have Twitter accts now I know. You can't be nice and communicate with fans cause people crazy.”

— Leslie Jones, twitter.com

“It is the absence of action from our lives that is rendering us incapable of being able to form an individual human being with traits that inspire, and take us on a journey towards self improvement.”

— Haseeb Sultan Abdul, thoughtcatalog.com

“It’s because we are so overwhelmed with individualized experiences of success on the internet, bombarded with the same examples of exceptions, that it leaves us feeling craving inspiration and stories to devour, rather than digest and metabolize. Just like food for our bodies, these words and sounds…”

— Haseeb Sultan Abdul, thoughtcatalog.com

“I am tired of the internet culture of just talking about things; human beings are still the same. We’re bombarded with so many intellectual arguments in the forms of quotes, articles, pictures, videos, podcasts; so much good information out there. And we’re evolving into beings who forget to process…”

— Haseeb Sultan Abdul, thoughtcatalog.com

“Online, we don’t have access to social cues. There’s no one on the receiving end of our jabs and tirades and vitriol. All we see are words on a screen in a text box. Empathy is null and void. Sometimes, I write things down that I think and feel and post them on the internet. Maybe you like to cook f…”

— Stephanie Wittels Wachs, medium.com

“Maybe people are just shitty. Or maybe it’s the internet’s fault. Or maybe people are just shitty and it’s the internet’s fault.”

— Stephanie Wittels Wachs, medium.com

“It has been fascinating for me to watch my story go through the looking glass of social media. The story itself has vanished, replaced by a digital mash-up of slurs and invective, supported by stray phrases that have been mechanically tweezered from different texts. The issues that Rhodes raises in…”

— David Samuels, nytimes.com

“But with social media, we've created a stage for constant artificial high drama. Every day a new person emerges as a magnificent hero or a sickening villain. It's all very sweeping, and not the way we actually are as people.”

— Jon Ronson, amazon.com

“I don't broadcast every high and I don't hide every low. I'm trying to live, I'm not trying to convince the world I have a life.”

— Rob Hill Sr., twitter.com

“'We were told that if we saw something, a news story that was on the front page of these ten sites, like CNN, the New York Times, and BBC, then we could inject the topic,' said one former curator. 'If it looked like it had enough news sites covering the story, we could inject it—even if it wasn’t na…”

— Michael Nunez, Anonymous Facebook News Curator, gizmodo.com

“If anything, Live further exposes Facebook’s active, seemingly unquenchable thirst for more ways to become the middleman in your digital interactions. It literally wants you to broadcast your life on the platform.”

— Joshua Topolsky, newyorker.com

“Are we so accustomed to being watched that we cannot feel real, cannot feel our experiences to be real, unless we are watching and reporting on them?”

— Wendy Brown, amazon.com

“Content is king, but context is God.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk, amazon.com