Quotes tagged ‘Social Media’

“I’m not seeking these images out anymore, but when I come across seemingly 'perfect' photos of models and celebrities, it’s as if they are speaking directly to the ghost of my eating disorder. It’s hard not to be haunted.”

— De Elizabeth, glamour.com

“Getting over someone is infinitely harder if you're looking at their social media accounts all the time! Our best advice: Unfollow, unfollow, unfollow. Stop following their Twitter, stop following their Instagram, stop following their Tumblr”

— Danielle Gibson, Alexandra Fiber, Kristi Kellogg, teenvogue.com

“Wherever I go whatever I do I wonder where I am in my relationship to you Wherever you go whatever you are I watch your life play out and take pictures from a far”

— John Mayer, open.spotify.com

“"There is too much negativity surrounding mental health, and no wonder it’s so hard for young people to actually talk about it. Look at growing up in today’s world. Social media is more addictive than drugs and alcohol yet it’s more dangerous because it’s normalized and there are no restrictions to…”

— Prince Harry, VICTORIA MURPHY, townandcountrymag.com

“The common term is 'digital detox,' whereby an individual commits to a cessation of specific actions on one’s Internet-enabled devices for a finite period of time. One can go on this adventure with friends, family, or a likeminded group of strangers from, you guessed it, the internet.”

— Sara Benincasa, longreads.com

“By utilizing social media platforms such as Instagram or Youtube, these content creators have created a brand and identity that gives them the title of influencer.”

— The H Hub, thehhub.com

“Newsletters could be a more reliable means of increasing readership for major publishers whose relationships with social networks have soured. Remember when Facebook moved away from promoting videos on the platform? Or when it decided to show more posts from friends and family, and de-emphasize cont…”

— Mike Isaac, nytimes.com

“Social media is a curious beast when it comes to mental health. On the one hand, it contributes to anxiety and other mental health issues. On the other, it can help us feel less alone when coping with those same things.”

— Jamie Feldman, huffpost.com

“Could I burn a bridge with a single ill-placed mention of aging?”

— Nora Taylor, manrepeller.com

“Since the advent of social media, finding out a fetus’s sex has changed from happy news into A Moment — and on social media, Moments must be carefully planned, appealingly captured, and widely shared.”

— Jill Filipovic, buzzfeednews.com

“When you care about the issues of the day, and check your facts on Wikipedia, you can and get into an argument right away.”

— Pet Shop Boys, youtube.com

“Why hasn’t FuckJerry been effectively called out and held accountable for all of its scammy, exploitative behavior?”

— Megh Wright, vulture.com

“The subpoenas are an attempt for Messer to uncover the full scope of McFarland's finances in relation to the festival.”

— Alyssa Hardy, teenvogue.com

“No one comes to Twitter to share private thoughts. The platform is the equivalent of climbing to a mountaintop and shouting.”

— Lance Ulanoff, medium.com

“The rules of engagement in traditional marketing are over. Whether you are creating a brand, building one, or running a big one, you’d better understand social media, because there is a seismic shift in how people are gaining access to information and, as a result, how they are behaving.”

— Howard Schultz, hbr.org

“You're gonna look at allowing a 13-year-old to have a smartphone the same way that you would look at allowing your 13-year-old to smoke a cigarette.”

— Cal Newport, gq.com

“It’s a phenomenon unique to the social media-centric era we live in—an era when even cancer is content.”

— Peg O'Connor, marieclaire.com

“The update was quickly walked back, but not before #InstagramUpdate was trending on Twitter, with a combination of rage, fear and Bird Box memes.”

— ELLE.com, marieclaire.com

“I feel like for the newer brands, we’re creating identities that are really tools for social.”

— Simon Endres, fastcompany.com

“While poets historically focused on producing a few highly thought-provoking poems in a given period of time, social media seems to have changed that. Poets are now expected to produce an absurdly high quantity of poems just to keep readers happy.”

— @theboyandhisdickies, Morgan Sung, mashable.com