“In other respects, it’s a welcome change. Against all odds, the pandemic actually produced some banner years for celebrity gossip, particularly when it came to public displays of horniness.”— Emma Garland, dazeddigital.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
“You see a higher follower count, or a higher retweet count, and you assume this person is important, or this tweet was well received. As a result, you might be more likely to amplify it, to share it or to follow that person.”— Rand Fishkin, nytimes.com
“Social media is a virtual world that is filled with half bots, half real people. You can’t take any tweet at face value. And not everything is what it seems.”— Rami Essaid, nytimes.com
“As our world becomes increasingly social, it’s easy to mistake celebrities’ candor online as an open invitation to question and judge them, and as many people do, to comment on their lives.”— Chang Casal, cnnphilippines.com
“We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection, because we get rewarded in these short-term signals — hearts, likes, thumbs up — and we conflate that with value and we conflate it with truth. And instead, what it is is fake, brittle popularity that’s short-term and leaves you even mor…”— Chamath Palihapitiya, washingtonpost.com
“The problem with social media is it feeds your ego. Because your post receives a lot of likes, then you assume you're right. Because your post gets a lot shares, then you assume you're good.”— Lisandro Claudio, facebook.com
“In the past, ironic misandry has been a popular way for women to deal with living in a world where they’re exposed to frequent abuse at the hands of powerful men. Yet, if a woman takes to Facebook to vent about how she “wants to imprison men and milk them for their male tears,” she could quickly los…”— Taylor Lorenz, thedailybeast.com
“Selfies are not all good. Aside from people accidentally hurting or killing themselves trying to impress others on the ‘gram, studies have found that interacting with “idealized images” of others puts people at higher risk for depression. A study by the University of Pittsburgh found that over a qua…”— Angela Waters, highsnobiety.com
“The researchers at Georgia Tech found that the most common reason for snapping a selfie is to capture your appearance, followed by showing off your social group, displaying your ethnicity, travel shots, as well as your heath and fitness.”— Angela Waters, highsnobiety.com
“[Leftists] are in danger of becoming the bullies who may have tormented us in our youth. We have to address and correct this "call-out culture" if we are going to build a coalition strong enough to replace Trumpism.[...] We must have a ceasefire in the 'who's the wokest of them all' war.”— Van Jones, amazon.com
“Too many of us seem to approach liberal causes and conversations mainly by looking for ways to show other progressives where they are wrong. Too many of us can deconstruct everything but can't reconstruct anything and make it work.”— Van Jones, amazon.com
“It’s my house and you will get kicked out if you smash my windows, and you also don’t get to track mud all over my floors or change my radio station.”— Ijeoma Oluo, theestablishment.co
“75 billion cells working to keep you alive in a universe where you are made of stardust and capable of incredible feats; a universe where you can create infinite scenarios in your mind and share them or keep them to yourself; a universe where one small action can impact your entire life, and you’re…”— the-real-void, the-real-void.tumblr.com
“Every time someone comes at me without the bravery of using their actual identity, my internet connection speeds up by 10 mbps.”— Kendra Syrdal, kendrasyrdal.tumblr.com
“But with social media, we've created a stage for constant artificial high drama. Every day a new person emerges as a magnificent hero or a sickening villain. It's all very sweeping, and not the way we actually are as people.”— Jon Ronson, amazon.com
“And then one day it hit me. Something of real consequence was happening. We were at the start of a great renaissance of public shaming. After a lull of almost 180 years (public punishments were phased out in 1837 in the United Kingdom and in 1839 in the United States), it was back in a big way. When…”— Jon Ronson, amazon.com