“As easy as it is to say that people should stop once they have enough success, who can say what’s enough in terms of friendships? Career connections? Fame? Every tweet you type could beget something great, or something disastrous.”— Jennifer Wright, nypost.com
“Translating the essence of who you are into a digestible product is a strange way to live, especially when you’re a young adult and your sense of self is in flux.”— Eve Peyser, vice.com
“LinkedIn isn’t seemingly a natural home for the next generation of hip-hop stars. Still, for Skatta at least, the appeal of LinkedIn is on the commercial side of things — it allows him to approach producers, event managers and music executives in a direct way, without the need to be 'discovered,' or…”— Hussein Kesvani, melmagazine.com
“When you use a bird to write with, it’s called tweeting.”— Jared Bush, Maui (voice), Dwayne Johnson, imdb.com
“It’s a reminder that our anxiety about a girl like Cohn being sexualized comes only because we, as adults, are sexualizing a child.”— Scaachi Koul, buzzfeednews.com
“Social media is in a pre-Newtonian moment, where we all understand that it works, but not how it works. There are certain rules that govern it and we have to make it our priority to understand the rules, or we cannot control it.”— Kevin systrom, nytimes.com
“We shouldn't tolerate toxic relationships in real life, and online should be no different.”— Emily Schuman, cupcakesandcashmere.com
“But the problem with these social media sites isn’t that a few bad apples are ruining the fun. It’s that they’re designed to reward bad apples.”— Carlos Maza, vox.com
“There is a universal truth that I feel like we should keep in our frontal lobe at the start of every day, that shouldn’t have to be conveyed in every image: parenting is hard. Hell, life is hard. Putting the onus on women to represent the full extent of that in their social media photos and captions…”— Pandora Sykes, manrepeller.com
“It's way easier to be mean on social media than it is to be mean in person.”— Elon Musk, dailymail.co.uk
“Is the activity of following certain unlikable figures on Twitter or Instagram really as innocent as letting off a little steam or capturing a momentary boost to the ego? Or does it, perhaps, reveal a budding cultural addiction to drama?”— Rachel Siemens, manrepeller.com
“What we found is that when the couch surfer had more information about that other person he or she was going to meet, the resulting friendship after they met was weaker than in a world where the couch surfers did not have that amount of information about the unknown other.”— Clay Skipper, gq.com
“Plenty of individuals say they experience social media-themed dreams, or dreams about apps they use for work, like the messaging service Slack.”— Louise Matsakis, wired.com
“What kind of civilization do we live in when asking to be left alone is enough to destroy it?”— colin horgan, medium.com
“Nobody wants to be themselves anymore. Internet, social media, goddamn talent shows for assholes… Everybody wants to be somebody else. Nobody is happy just to look at themselves in the mirror, see themselves.”— Steve Lightfoot, Curtis Hoyle, Jason R. Moore, imdb.com
“Nowadays being anonymous is worse than being poor. Fame is the most important thing in our culture now. And if there is one thing I’ve learned it is that no one is just going to hand it to you.”— Ian Brennan, Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Rachel Berry, Lea Michele, imdb.com
“The one in eight Instagrammers CampaignDeus said showed signs of buying audiences were given away by a number of factors including: demographic makeup; unexplained leaps in follower count; and unusually low engagement rates given account size.”— Rebecca Stewart, thedrum.com