Quotes tagged ‘Social Media Is Bad’

“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

“Platforms and algorithms that promised to improve our lives can actually magnify our worst human tendencies.”

— Tim Cook, cnbc.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

“I have always believed that the world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar, instagram.com

“48 million of Twitter’s reported active users — nearly 15 percent — are automated accounts designed to simulate real people, though the company claims that number is far lower. In November, Facebook disclosed to investors that it had at least twice as many fake users as it previously estimated, indi…”

— NICHOLAS CONFESSORE, GABRIEL J.X. DANCE, RICHARD HARRIS and MARK HANSEN, nytimes.com

“Twitter as a social network was designed with almost no accountability.”

— Leslie Miley, 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

“YouTube’s prank culture emphasizes shock value. Its deep culture of veneration among fans creates an insular, often accountability-proof bubble around its biggest stars. When those stars have earned large fortunes by creating content that violates the personal space and consent of other members of t…”

— Aja Romano, vox.com

“Flee humanity. Get yourself to the nearest woods, desert, pond, river, lake, or field where there are very few people. If you live in a city and transportation out of the city is impossible, find an abandoned stairwell. Just sit there. Take in the glory of silence, of emptiness, the way there is no…”

— Melissa Broder, vice.com

“We have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works. Your behaviors, you don’t realize it, but you are being programmed. It was unintentional, but now you gotta decide how much you’re willing to give up, how much of your intellectual independence.”

— Chamath Palihapitiya, washingtonpost.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

“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

“I think hell is Instagram. I'm 90 percent sure. We get sent to hell, we get like locked in the Instagram server.”

— Justin Bieber, billboard.com