“When I come home from work, I crave easy oblivion: flashing alerts and endless feeds and shallow, undemanding forms of social validation.”— Jamie Lauren Keiles, gq.com
“We shouldn't tolerate toxic relationships in real life, and online should be no different.”— Emily Schuman, cupcakesandcashmere.com
“Being an asshole online, whether it’s tagging the target of your wrath or subtly hinting at the identity of whoever you’re bashing, can make you seem unhinged and sickly.”— Eve Peyser, vice.com
“The subtext of my early Instagram life was transparent: I hoped you’d find me, viewer.”— Bindu Bansinath, medium.com
“I wanted a friend to come over and lounge on my couch and drink wine with and laugh over the latest swipe-right disaster story. What’s a first date-date if you can’t share with friends?”— Liz Presson, marieclaire.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
“In a world where your reputation is constantly on trial, everyone becomes a virtual judge.”— Clay Skipper, gq.com
“The most obvious problem with cancel culture is that it rarely has any tangible or meaningful effect on the lives and comfortability of the canceled.”— Connor Garel, vice.com
“It's not a movie. There's a real woman here who didn't ask to have strangers speculating if she's a cheat or a slut.”— Mary Elizabeth Williams, salon.com
“We actively create our public selves, every day, one social media post at a time.”— Ella Dawson, elladawson.com
“The YouTube community has been trying to process what actually happened at TanaCon, and the reactions have been extremely divided.”— Ben Goggin, inverse.com
“I am living proof that it really isn’t easy to become an overnight social media star.”— Anna Lewis, cosmopolitan.com
“Time with family or friends; time with your significant other or your significant others; time alone or with your dog, free from that which hangs over our heads at all times in the air like magic: the web.”— Kelly Conaboy, thecut.com
“All the cool services are getting data dumps—that little link you click somewhere in a settings menu that triggers the service to send you all the data it collects from you (and everything you’ve used it to do, theoretically).”— David Murphy, lifehacker.com
“Social technology, in all of its varying forms, seems similar to alcohol in a way. Both can be used as an effective lubricant for the socially skittish, but when used in excess, can also damage our ability to hold a coherent conversation without their aid.”— Rachel Siemens, manrepeller.com
“There is a real sense of joy in finding your people online, in discovering a community and realizing you’re not a weirdo”— Philip Ellis, manrepeller.com
“Men are complicated! And the only way to figure a man out is to stay up until 4am psychotically digging through every single thing he’s ever said or clicked on the internet. Whether you’re investigating a new beau, and old fling, or every man you’ve ever met, here’s how to dig so deep down into his…”— Jasmine Pierce, reductress.com