“The growth in the number of our friends has actually been accompanied with an increase in social isolation, as Sherry Turkle describes. We are more connected, yet more alone.”— Tony Crabbe, qz.com
“Follow me on Twitter and I’ll do the same. My handle’s @cherylbombshell.”— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Cheryl Blossom, Madelaine Petsch, imdb.com
“I have people i follow on here who i hate so much that i can't bring myself to even mute them bc i would miss the thrill of hating them, which is how i know the lord is still working on me”— Amanda Mull, twitter.com
“When our elementary teachers taught us that reading is never a waste of time i bet they never imagined something like twitter would exist.”— Jonny Sun, twitter.com
“Actions are easy to confirm. Facebook says 10 people commented on a post? I can count that. There were 20 purchases? I’ll check my records (though there are some holes here). Clicks and landing page views, while your records won’t match up 100%, can at least be checked against some verifiable form o…”— Jon Loomer, jonloomer.com
“I remember what it was like before social media and it was kind of boring.”— Choire Sicha, fashionista.com
“There’s lots of online information about sexual violence, but there’s not a lot of information about how you as an individual can start dealing with the trauma.”— Tarana Burke, glamour.com
“I thought, "Oh my god. This is mass disclosure across the internet and there’s no after care. Who’s going to have the discussion of what #metoo is really about?”— Tarana Burke, glamour.com
“What does justice look like for a survivor? It’ll mean different things to different communities.”— Tarana Burke, thenation.com
“What about the person whose family didn’t know until they saw it on social media? What if for a survivor social media is your self-care and you’re bombarded with all these posts? It’s really complicated.”— Tarana Burke, thenation.com
“There are a series of emotions that most survivors go through after disclosing. It starts with feeling great, like the weight on your shoulders has been lifted, and then you’re alone with your thoughts, like, “Why did I do that?” And then what about the person who gets backlash?”— Tarana Burke, thenation.com
“This iteration in social media has placed a larger focus on perpetrators being called out and held accountable for their actions. But the actual Me Too movement is about supporting sexual assault survivors.”— Tarana Burke, yesmagazine.org
“You wouldn't tell Shakespeare how to write a sonnet, and you don't tell a social media guru how to get a hashtag trending, okay? So step back.”— Jake Weisman, Matt Ingebretson, Baron, Baron Vaughn, imdb.com
“What’s better than a million followers? The empty field that frees you of the urge to care.”— Ian Bogost, theatlantic.com
“The problem with Twitter—and with social media in general—isn’t that influence can be faked. It’s that it is seen to have so much significance in the first place.”— Ian Bogost, theatlantic.com
“Technology has made it far too easy for people to be lazy communicators, to be easily distant, to not be present and show up in the ways that require work, and being able to be held accountable when you fail to be and do better as a human.”— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com
“In order to understand how and exactly why narcissists use these platforms for such petty power plays, it’s essential that we remember that they tend to be insatiable in their attention-seeking and their desire to create harems of people who adore them.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“Social media is a veritable playground for malignant narcissists. It gives them easy access to multiple victims and the ability to manufacture love triangles in covert, insidious ways.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“Research reveals that online trolls possess the Dark Tetrad traits of narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism. In other words, online narcissists take sadistic pleasure in provoking others. So it’s no wonder that many narcissists in cyberspace are the types who hand out death and rape threats a…”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com