Quotes about social-networking

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.

now it’s computers and more computersand soon everybody will have one,3-year-olds will have computersand everybody will know everythingabout everybody elselong before they meet them.nobody will want to meet anybodyelse ever againand everybody will bea recluselike I am now.

She had set it on the Internet, its own peculiar echo chamber.

Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling.

Little girls think it's necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it's a shame...I'm all about mystery.

Some say Twitter is overrated.Some love it, others hate it.I guess it depends on what you've got,If you have guts to write a funny plot!

Online life is practice to make the rest of life better, but it is also a pleasure in itself.

Facebook is the perfect place to try on different identities until she finds one that sticks.

If he could not go out into the world, the world could come to him.

Not everyone will like what you have to say. Not everyone will like what you do. Social networking is a garbage pile waiting for rats to feed. Pointless nothings of your everyday lives. Still the fumes rise.

Guess it's high time we add the 8th vow in marriage promising that we shall spend time with our husband or wife more than with social networking sites!

Tempted to type meaningless twaddle all the time on Twitter...with alliteration, no less!

You Need To Gauge, To Engage.

Ignore errors in updates because you never know the context in real life, mobile or otherwise. NetworkEtiquette.net

I love social media. I love the connectivity it provides, the creativity it allows, and the breathtaking wealth of information we all have at our fingertips because of it.

The Social Networking Netiquette Loop: Read, share, like, and repeat.

Okay, so I stopped posting status updates on Facebook a long time ago. I noticed that whenever someone posts something completely mundane and stupid, like 'Sushi 2nite!' seventeen people have to comment on that. 'I ♥ sushi!' and 'Spicy Tuna 4 meee!' But if you ever try to actually say something serious about your feelings or, like, your life, every one of your 386 "friends" is suddenly mute. So there you have it: My life is a post with no comments. Less interesting than spicy tuna.

In real life, it's good Netiquette to limit yourself to a two drink maximum when social networking. NetworkEtiquette.net

It's good netiquette to provide links in updates. Everyone does not know what you know. NetworkEtiquette.net

All media work us over completely.

Six degrees of separation doesn't mean that everyone is linked to everyone else in just six steps. It means that a very small number of people are linked to everyone else in a few steps, and the rest of us are linked to the world through those special few.

Relationships are the currency of business.

If you feel it right now, on the Internet, you can tell them right now; you don't have to wait for anything.

Little people doing little things in little places everywhere can change the world.

Have you ever read a wonderful quote that you want to post on your twitter/facebook/blog/whatever but you feel like it may come off as “not Christian enough” or just a little theologically lacking?

A survey of Canadian media consumption by Microsoft concluded that the average attention span had fallen to eight seconds, down from 12 in the year 2000.

Online life is so delicious because it is socializing with almost no friction.

The longer a person's twitter @username is, the harder it is to argue with them … on twitter.

When you decide to meet—in person—someone that you met online, would you then be taking your relationship to the 'previous' level?

It's entirely possible to get to know someone without actually seeing them in person. In fact, it's better like that because none of the superficial stuff gets in the way. You really get to know a person. And it's easier to express yourself when you're writing things down. At least it is for me. I like to order my thoughts, and delete them if they don't make any sense. You can't do that in real life.

Time is our most precious currency. So it’s significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our attention not as expenditure but as consumption. This blurring of labor and entertainment forms the basis, for example, of the financial alchemy that conjures deca-billion-dollar valuations for social-networking companies.

Connectivity becomes a craving.

I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.

A lot of people are on the internet searching for fifteen minutes of fame I've been on it so long and so often I'm looking for fifteen minutes of Freedom

The information superhighway is littered with so much roadkill.

I was already at one remove before the Internet came along. I need another remove? Now I have to spend the time that I'm not doing the thing they're doing reading about them doing it? Streaming the clips of them doing it, commenting on how lucky they are to be doing all those things, liking and digging and bookmarking and posting and tweeting all those things, and feeling more disconnected than ever? Where does this idea of greater connection come from? I've never in my life felt more disconnect

Social networking platforms drove man closer to those in neighboring continents, while driving him further apart from those in his neighborhood.

Thou shalt not tweet to be retweeted.

Thou shalt not unfollow someone, merely because they stopped following you.

Thou shalt not follow someone, merely because they are following you.

Thou shalt not think that thou be a leader, merely because thee be having more than 0 followers.

F. Scott Fitzgerald believed inserting exclamation points was the literary equivalent of an author laughing at his own jokes, but that's not the case in the modern age; now, the exclamation point signifies creative confusion. All it illustrates is that even the writer can't tell if what they're creating is supposed to be meaningful, frivolous, or cruel. It's an attempt to insert humor where none exists, on the off chance that a potential reader will only be pleased if they suspect they're being

Television isn't any longer the only way to fame, all you need is the internet to break into the game