"Reddit names are unconnected to real-world identities and it’s commonplace for users to create ‘throwaway’ accounts to reveal sensitive information."
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"On Twitter, if you want to quote someone else, you say, ‘RT, re-tweet, that person’s name, and then what they said before.’ And it’s a way of essentially saying, ‘I’m not saying this, but my friend said this and I thought this was interesting.’"
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"People who know me well have learned to insist that I commit to obligations by opening my laptop and putting them onto the appropriate calendar or list – a verbal agreement and a promise to remember won’t work."
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"Teenagers try to hide what’s really going on in their communication online."
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"Curators are great, but they’re inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications."
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"The term ‘cyberutopian’ tends to be used only in the context of critique. Calling someone a cyberutopian implies that he or she has an unrealistic and naively overinflated sense of what technology makes possible and an insufficient understanding of the forces that govern societies."
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"Increasingly, I’m inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a profit."
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"It’s becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we’re trying to get new groups of people talking."
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"Cute. I’m on the waitlist to beta a new product, and have been offered the chance to move up in the list if I tweet about it. Not doing so."