1,311 Quotes About Social-media

The fact that social media has leveled the playing field doesn't offer you the right to disrespect the elderly

That their shooting of messages will stop, that they will give their thoughts more thought, that they will start engaging in reflection, develop a true conversation,and in that meaning-negotiation,create some new understanding. The real thing.

The Arab poet Silm Al Khaser wrote “He who watches people dies of worry” and his words have never been more potent than in today’s world where all people do is watch others and cater to them in return.

Everything that happens now in the online world is part of a conversation.

Life should be like a good Tweet - short, pithy, convey a message and inspire others to follow.

Never have I felt this cavernous loneliness, where everything's so close and accessible at fingers' touch through the computer keyboard or mobile screen yet impalpably cold and removed from the organic world. (Danny Castilllones Sillada, Homelessness of the Soul in the Digital World)

I want to go home, but lamentably, I don’t know where home is anymore.

Nothing’s lonelier than living amidst the digital world, where no one knows about your physical existence, whether you’re still living or just existing for algorithmic feed on the social network or Big Data system. (Danny Castilllones Sillada, Homelessness of the Soul in the Digital World)

Profundity and daring attempts at it are what separate our cultural touchstones from the white noise of daily communication.