“Some may tell you to pursue views, clicks or followers, but I’m here to tell you there’s no more noble pursuit than that of authenticity. If you want to fight against all the bullshit online, it’s paramount that you understand the importance of being honest, being you, and most crucially, being true…”— Haley Nahman, manrepeller.com
“If employees feel there is something happening that's illegal, unethical or against their strongly held values, they feel the need to tell someone. Whether they leak it or tell someone who leaks it, people talk about it more. It's a shame how long it's taken to get it all out there; now it's like de…”— David Lassman, Annie Gaus, thestreet.com
“People leave social media for different reasons. They rage-quit. Their account gets canceled. They receive an intervention. Sometimes it’s a refusal to perform the self to make unpaid content and uncompensated value for a company worth over $100 billion.”— Drew Zeiba, vulture.com
“When Facebook became a thing while I was in college, I longed for albums filled with my 12 closest girlfriends wearing matching college tees and cowgirl boots while holding matching tailgating tumblers of vodka and orange juice on a cold, crisp West Texas afternoon. Potential suitors would browse th…”— Jennifer Epperson, manrepeller.com
“While we were playing on our phones and apps, our democratic institutions seem to have been upended by frat-boy billionaires from California.”— Canadian Member of Parliament, Noam Cohen, wired.com
“We’re trying to enable people to share everything they want, and to do it on Facebook. Sometimes the best way to enable people to share something is to have a developer build a special purpose app or network for that type of content and to make that app social by having Facebook plug into it. Howeve…”— Mark Zuckerberg, parliament.uk
“This isn’t ambiguous anymore: Some of the social products you enjoy as an individual are causing measurable harm around the planet.”— Damon Beres, medium.com
“What works now is content that galvanizes people. Instagram pages that turn into book deals have followers that do more than just smile and keep scrolling. These pages can show that the content is being reposted and shared to people who aren’t even on Instagram. Those are the signs of an Instagram b…”— Rachel Vogel, Rachel Kramer Bussel, forbes.com
“If we had met at a dinner party rather than on Twitter, would we have liked each other? Was social media, as Mr. Lanier’s book suggested, creating a sense of intense conflict where there might be intense conversation? Did we actually dislike each other, or was Twitter just making us think we did?”— Bari Weiss, nytimes.com
“This is a silly thing to get hung up on, I know, but what bugs me about these pictures is how devoid they are of any engagement with what books really do.”— Hillary Kelly, vulture.com
“You see rejection in everything, because you dislike yourself and live inside your head.”— Heather Havrilesky, thecut.com
“By classifying these places as experiences, their creators seem to imply that something happens there. But what? Most human experiences don’t have to announce themselves as such.”— Amanda Hess, nytimes.com
“White people are allergic to apologizing. Period. They hate doing it, they can’t stand it, and if they have to do it, then it’s going to result in some weird non-apology where they basically deny all wrongdoing and claim that you are the aggressive party for even being offended to begin with.”— Clarkisha Kent, intomore.com
“What... are you doing? With your face? The pursed lips, the terrified eyes, the strange, strained posture.”— Sam Diss, vice.com
“Before he allegedly began mailing pipe bombs to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and others, Cesar Sayoc found encouragement online — maybe not in the form of explosives instructions, but in the sense that he could scream his resentments in a theater that did the opposite of repudiating them. It echoed…”— Frank Bruni, nytimes.com
“The internet will be the death of us. It casts rogue grievances as legitimate obsessions and gives prejudices the shimmer of ideals.”— Frank Bruni, nytimes.com
“Be glad you didn’t grow up with social media.”— Steven Lilien, Miles Finer, Brandon Micheal Hall, imdb.com
“Though our actions are visible to almost everyone online, in our primitive monkey brains, when we log in, we are alone.”— Jesse Weaver, medium.com
“Just knowing that her killer is behind bars should bring me some comfort, some closure. The only problem is this: I think they got the wrong guy. I now have evidence, evidence that has never been made public, evidence that makes me believe that they have incarcerated the wrong man, and whoever did t…”— Ted Humphrey, Jeffrey Tanner, Jeremy Piven, imdb.com
“Rakesh: Maybe the universe just didn't want you and Cara together. Miles: The universe doesn't control our lives, Rakesh. That would be the God account.”— Allison Moore, Miles Finer, Brandon Micheal Hall, imdb.com