“Twitter, Facebook, Instagram... these are weaponized. You have people in lab coats, literally best minds in our generation literally figuring out how to get you to be addicted to the news. And if you fall for it... if you get addicted.. your brain will get destroyed. And I think this is the modern s…”— Naval Ravikant, youtube.com
“Comedians and many others have since used dark humor when addressing everything including war, sex, and death. Now, as we face uncertainty as to exactly how bad this pandemic will get, young people are using TikTok for this exact purpose.”— Paige Skinner, teenvogue.com
“It’s so easy as you get older to find the best in who you’ve become, to make the most of it — and maybe even to get a little complacent about it.”— Lindsay Crouse, New York Times, nytimes.com
“As a move, it’s sweeping, it’s mysterious, it’s drastic, it’s everything necessary to feed the post-breakup id. And best of all, it leaves behind zero lingering evidence for your followers to gawk at after the dust clears and you return to Earth (and regularly scheduled internet programming).”— Katie Way, vice.com
“It is neither simple nor straightforward to reach audiences gathered around digital campfires. But as traditional social platforms grow, they become more crowded, and it becomes more difficult and expensive to reach people there anyway. In light of this, digital campfires become a much more attracti…”— Sara Wilson, hbr.org
“The man who unleashed Instagram on the world stands six-foot-five-inches tall and has the careful demeanor of someone who knows people are listening closely to what he’s saying.”— Stella Bugbee, The Cut, thecut.com
“With the changes, users will still be able to see who likes their photos and videos — but no one else will.”— Alejandra Salazar, refinery29.com
“I’m bad at planning my posts. I used to edit my photos—I used to be a VSCO girl, editing colors – and then I stopped. I got tired of it.”— Aimee Song, refinery29.com
“Caroline Calloway hasn’t done or written anything worthy of all the media attention she’s receiving. She’s not a criminal, or a scammer, or even a particularly good writer. She’s just a privileged twenty-something-year-old woman with an artsy, aesthetically pleasing Instagram.”— Kirby Davis, miamistudent.net
“Many of the Instagram users who have caught on to this financial hack are lifestyle influencers charging money for friendship at its most literal—broken down into its component parts, which are then sorted into various tiers of ascending value.”— Kaitlyn Tiffany, theatlantic.com
“The kind of drivel that would get you kicked out of Year Five for not trying hard enough. But it was somehow connecting with people on a genuine level. What was going on?”— Andrew Lloyd, vice.com
“To constantly preach about introspection but then lean into being a “self-obsessed mess” so much so that you put it on a hat not only says that you might not have enough respect for yourself to put distance between you and the descriptor, but also that you know that you’re allowed to be that way. Mo…”— Opheli Garcia Lawler, mic.com
“I’m a mess. But that’s okay because this is what we signed up for.”— Emma Chamberlain, marieclaire.com
“Meet the unfluencer, the person who makes me want to do the opposite of whatever she’s doing and throw out whatever I already own that she has posted about.”— Marisa Meltzer, thecut.com
“And they’re probably in a different country somewhere. It’s just crazy. It might seem fake to them, but it’s real in your life. And you think, 'Oh, you can turn it off, whatever.' Just to know it’s there. It’s like if you know there’s one room in your house where, if you listen up against the wall,…”— Robert Pattinson, amazon.com
“Weddings make a show of flexing wealth and popularity for attention. This weekend’s event is just happening on an influencer scale.”— Madison Malone Kircher, nymag.com
“If you don’t have time to read Twitter, you don’t have the time to post on Twitter. Simple as that.”— Amanda ReCupido, thebelladonnacomedy.com
“Concept: at the end of your life you realize there is no heaven, or hell. Instead, you’re simply just handed a device with an app on it that shows you all of the things you missed out on when you were looking down at your phone.”— Bianca Sparacino, twitter.com
“Social media would probably have remained in the Second Life phase — with people creating clubhouses and personalities that they played around with on the weekends — instead of smartphones fusing together our first and second lives until we couldn’t tell them apart.”— Pagan Kennedy, nytimes.com