“I know this is supposed to be playful and quirky, but after seeing the true chaos the internet can create, I’m simply underwhelmed.”— Justice Namaste, jezebel.com
“65 percent of “anti-vaccine content” on Facebook and Twitter originated from twelve influencers within the anti-vaxxer movement.”— Matt Binder, mashable.com
“The absolute drama of a slow, sad song is a veritable buffet for prospective actors. As TikTok solidifies itself as a kingmaking promotional tool and a rung on the ladder to music superstardom, the songs that best lend themselves to memeing are becoming the songs that rise the highest on the charts.”— Craig Jenkins, vulture.com
“I am not performing my totality on social media. No one is; no one should. What should we expect from people we follow? That they act like people, and we respond in kind.”— Alicia Kennedy, aliciakennedy.news
“At some point, we will all tire of looking at the emperor’s flaccid penis.”— Meghan Murphy, spectator.us
“Where would I be without Instagram? Definitely not in the luxury rental building I was paid to live in and post about for a year back in 2017.”— Tavi Gevinson, thecut.com
“We know that people are complicated and have a mixture of flaws and talents and sins. So why do we pretend that we don’t?”— Jon Ronson, amazon.com
“Culture is a pendulum, and the pendulum is swaying. That’s not to say everyone is going to stop posting perfect photos. But the energy is shifting.”— Matt Klein, theatlantic.com
“How often do you search for something on Google? How many times do you log in to Facebook to check your feed?”— Mark Walker-Ford , socialmediatoday.com
“Wherever I go whatever I do I wonder where I am in my relationship to you Wherever you go whatever you are I watch your life play out and take pictures from a far”— John Mayer, open.spotify.com
“Meszaros acknowledges there’s meaning in providing for his family and being a company man, but he couldn’t stop asking himself, Am I doing anything that has meaning beyond surviving today? Am I doing anything that’s adding any real value to the world?”— Quinn Myers, melmagazine.com
“We say that we “search the Web,” but we don’t, really; our search engines traverse an index of the Web—a map.”— James Somers, newyorker.com
“Personalization is not just a trend. It’s going to be the future of all consumer products.”— Julissa Treviño, medium.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
“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
“One thing I didn’t anticipate is how much fun it would be to text my own kid and hear back from her. It’s like getting to see a different side of her–a more grown-up version and a window into the future of the funny things we will tell each other.”— Kelle Hampton, kellehampton.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
“This raises the question: As we grope toward the brave new automated world, is a university degree in, say, economics, philosophy, English, or anything else that isn’t to do with fixing cobots (collaborative robots) or writing algorithms, worth the PDF file it was exported on? Or is it, practically…”— Matt Blake, vice.com