1,311 Quotes About Social-media

The more passionate and argumentative I get the more followers and friends I make online.

We do need these two words, “public” and “relations”—and, of course, those words are still extremely important.However, those 3 billion people who are social media users are all dealing with “relations,” and everything has become “public”!With social media, everything has been “public” for quite a while now; there is nothing “nonpublic” anymore.

More than 80% of Millennials sleep with their cell phones (as compared to only a third of Boomers); More than half check them in the middle of the night. A third send over 35 text messages after having gone to bed. For digital natives, life is lived mediated.

I suppose this is what I'm concerned about... is the appetite to turn natural behaviors into products and entertainment.

For digital natives, ubiquitous connectivity means untethering from traditional expectations about work and career: Why be in an office when you can work from Starbucks on your laptop? Why even come in at all?

Qui dit quoi ? Que dans un monde où tout le monde croit devoir s'exprimer, il n'y a plus d'illumination possible. Rien ne peut être éclairé dans la luminance totale. Il faut beaucoup de silence pour entendre une note. Il faut beaucoup de nuit pour qu'un éclair puisse jaillir, pour qu'une couleur neuve soit perçue, soit reçue.

I threaten to kill lots of people. But it doesn’t actually mean that in a tweet.’ ‘Mean what?’ ‘Mean that you actually want to kill them. It’s more like “Oh, I disagree with you. Maybe you should think things through more”, that sort of thing.

Social media networks allow conspiracy theories to grow like a cancer that metastasizes on society

Instantaneous, noncalibrated, digital self-revelation is one of my greatest nightmares.