Social Media Quotes

There is no Social Media without Women... it ceases to exist!

~ Ted Rubin

For people who are not on a particular social networking site, it can seem like you're not even living on the same planet— you're essentially not functioning in the same frame.

~ Sharanya Haridas

Despite its revolutionary promises, Facebook can turn our everyday lives into that wedding we have all heard about: the one where the bride chooses her prettiest friends, not her best friends, to be bridesmaids. It can feel like a popularity contest where being Liked is what matters, being the best is the only respectable option, how our partners look is more important than how they act, the race to get married is on, and we have to be clever all the time. It can be just another place, not to be, but to seem.

~ Meg Jay

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.

~ Aysha Taryam

WHEN IT MATTERS THE MOST....DON'T PLEAD THE 5TH WHEN YOU'VE BEEN TESTIFYING ALL DAY!SPEAK UP!

~ Qwana M. Babygirl Reynolds-Frasier

Tech isn’t morally good or bad until it’s wielded by the corporations that fashion it for mass consumption. Apps and platforms can be designed to promote rich social connections; or, like cigarettes, they can be designed to addict. Today, unfortunately, many tech developments do promote addiction.

~ Adam Alter

THE MOMENT YOU WANT SOMEONE ELSE'S LIFE IS THE MOMENT YOU SPIRITUALLY KILL YOURSELF

~ Qwana M. Babygirl Reynolds-Frasier

Exfiltrated metadata from internet service providers and social media platforms can be plugged into big data analytics and once the right algorithm is applied, can allow an adversary surgically precise psychographic targeting of critical infrastructure executives with elevated privileges. Why is no one talking about this?

~ James Scott

I was basically born knowing how to casually stalk people on social media.

~ Becky Albertalli

People get addicted to feeling offended all the time because it gives them a high, being self-righteous and morally superior feels good.

~ Mark Manson

People have all day to talk about what makes them ordinary. It turns out that they want to share what makes them weird.

~ Derek Thompson

You Need To Gauge, To Engage.

~ Syed Sharukh

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and the myriad of other services resonate with the basic human urge to be social. The tools have changed, but human behaviour remains consistent.

~ Alfred Hermida

Sharing our ideas with others is a way of showing what is important to us. We are sending out signals about ourselves as we highlight what we value and care about.

~ Alfred Hermida

Don't waste your tremendous voice writing messages in the sand.

~ Lorin Morgan-Richards

I was on the sidewalk, buffering, wondering if it was okay to follow people in real life.

~ Olivia Sudjic

This is why i hate social media. It gives a voice to people who dont (sic) deserve one.

~ Gary Streeter

So many of the things I invented I honestly did for fun, out of some perverse game of whether or not they’d work, whether people would use them. I mean, it was like setting up a guillotine in the public square. You don’t expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it

~ Dave Eggers

The problem is not in the hashtag; the problem lies in the idea that one’s contribution in spreading said hashtag ends their responsibility towards that particular issue. It is a way of clearing our conscience towards the true atrocities happening around us, because in that moment that we send out a supportive post into the world of the web we set the notion that we are somehow absolved of our sins, for silence is a sin and the hashtag breaks that silence.

~ Aysha Taryam

Soon after Justine Sacco's shaming, I was talking with a friend, a journalist, who told me he had so many jokes, little observations, potentially risqué thoughts, that he wouldn't dare to post online anymore.'I suddenly feel with social media like I'm tiptoeing around an unpredictable, angry, unbalanced parent who might strike out at any moment,' he said. 'It's horrible.'He didn't want me to name him, he said, in case it sparked something off.We see ourselves as nonconformist, but I think all of this is creating a more conformist, conservative age.'Look!' we're saying. 'WE'RE normal! THIS is the average!'We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside of it.

~ Jon Ronson

We have more ways to get our news than ever, which is supposed to be a good thing, because more competition is supposed to challenge you to do better. However, in this social media age, what is has done is allowed the information business to be a free- rein free-for-all. Old rules of journalistic integrity have been thrown out the window. Everyone has been given the conch, and no one knows what to do with it. Instead of using the new-media landscape to spur us to higher quality, we have instead become sloppier than ever: Tweet first, research later. Post first, rescind later. Guess first, confirm later.

~ Luvvie Ajayi

If lust and hate is the candyif blood and love tastes so sweetthen we give 'em what they wantHey, hey, give 'em what they wantSo their eyes are growing hazy 'cause they want to turn it on so their minds are soft and lazyWell, hey, give 'em what they wantIf lust and hate is the candyif blood and love tastes so sweetthen we give 'em what they wantSo their eyes are growing hazy 'cause they want to turn it onso their minds are soft and lazyWell who do you want to blame?Hey, hey, give 'em what they wantIf lust and hate is the candyif blood and love tastes so sweetthen we give 'em what they wantSo their eyes are growing hazy 'cause they want to turn it on so their minds are soft and lazy.Well who do you want to blame?

~ 10

Social media is the illusion of connectedness without the interconnectedness that makes us thrive.

~ Lisa Cypers Kamen

That’s what’s new. There used to be the option of opting out. But now that’s over. Completion is the end. We’re closing the circle around everyone—it’s a totalitarian nightmare.

~ Dave Eggers

There was a time when we used to have opinions, just humble opinions. Now everything seems to be a question of life and death. We defend, we abuse, we call names, we shout....is it because every idiot in town suddenly found a voice through social media or are intelligent people getting dumber trying to defend arguments which an idiot won't understand. I don't belong to either so I just wonder...

~ Everskeptic

The landscape of human emotion is ominously changing. The visceral sensation of loneliness and solitude is no longer as palpable and intellectually profound as it was a couple of decades ago because technology has already relieved us, as much as possible, from the burden of any emotional and existential isolation. The intense feeling of being nostalgic or being alone, for instance, is receding from the human emotion because we can now communicate with live video and send messages through any social media to a distant friend or loved one. Consequently, the exponential progress of technology is altering the phenomenological experience of human sensation, robbing us of our ability to get in touch with our humanity and reflect upon the triumphs and madness of our techno-society. Ironically, in our obstinate desire to humanize robots and Artificial Intelligence, our individual existence is, in turn, being digitized and robotized by our own technological inventions. Horribilis! (Danny Castillones Sillada, The Alienation of Solitude and Sorrow)

~ Danny Castillones Sillada

It doesn’t have to be perfect to be better than a hotbed of rape threats and Nazi memes.

~ Adam Kotsko

Social media became a show off world , for people who really have nothing to show for it .Directionless individuals, influencing people who cant think for themselves... ''Tare Munzara

~ Tare Munzara

People feel uncomfortable when they have to divulge personal information during a police interrogation. Isn’t it strange that one-sixth of the world population spreads such information on social media?

~ Danny Mekić

And yet, for the fully modern being, not being able to tweet or otherwise share - feelings, opinions, thoughts, jokes, links to cat videos or pictures of dinner - for even an hour is akin to eternal exile in the desert, and hence in part the rising tide of juror-caused mistrials across the planet.

~ Christie Blatchford

We all watch and are constantly being watched in the social media. And while we feel this gaze of others, we form our own identities, our own personas, having as a guiding principle the opinion, the values, the (gossiping) interests of others.

~ Nicos Hadjicostis

When we think a thought enough times it becomes a belief and that belief becomes a pattern which, in turn, becomes how we live our lives.

~ Sherree Mongrain

Content is not king – relevant, timely and authentic content is king

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Tweet and post softly of your brand. But carry a big stick.

~ Timi Nadela

Uncoincidentally, Instagram was also the first social-media platform to which the only sane reaction was hate.

~ Jarett Kobek

This person probably lives in their momma's basement, scratching their ass and lacking vitamin D. #SocialMediaTrolls

~ Luuvie Ajayi

Somehow, Naomi was of another, newer, generation than Nathan, despite the fact that they were the same age. Nathan seemed to have absorbed his sense of journalistic ethics from old movies about newspaper reporters. For Naomi, internet sampling and scratching was a completely valid form of journalism, presenting no ethical clouds on its open-source horizon. To not be photographed daily, even by oneself, to not be recorded and videoed and dispersed into the turbulent winds of the net, was to court nonexistence.

~ David Cronenberg

If your prospect like your product, they'll tell 10 people. If they don't, they'll tell 1,000.

~ Timi Nadela

Emergency? Knighthawk sent. I’m just bored.I blinked, holding my phone and rereading that text.Bored? I sent. You’re literally spying on the entire world, Knighthawk. You can read anyone’s mail, listen to anyone’s phone calls.First, it’s not the whole world, he wrote. Only large chunks of North and Central America. Second, do you have any idea how mind-numbingly DULL most people are?I started a reply, but a flurry of messages came at me, interrupting what I was going to say.Oh! Knighthawk wrote. Look at this pretty flower!Hey. I want to know if you like me, but I can’t say that, so here’s an awkward flirtation instead.Where are you?I’m here.Where?Here.There?No, here.Oh.Look at my kid.Look at my dog.Look at me.Look at me holding my kid and dog.Hey, everyone. I took a huge koala this morning.Barf. The world is ruled by deific beings who can do stuff like melt buildings into puddles of acid, and all people can think of to do with their phones is take pictures of their pets and try to figure out how to get laid.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Being on Facebook too much in a row is like playing chess in a black hole. You never know if the next move will lead you to a checkmate or a mate checked.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes