Shawn Crahan Quotes

One of the great ironies of the social media era is that some of the least social people in the world created it.

We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.

We can be incredibly disconnected in this day and age with computers and cell phones.

While the digital age has done so much to improve our world, it has dramatically changed our social structure, often further isolating us from each other.

I don't do Facebook and I don't do Twitter, and already I notice that, with some of my friends, there's a whole sphere of conversation that I'm completely on the outside of, and that's my choice. But, to a greater extent, that's what the whole of life is like.

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.

Twitter is an amazing thing; it brings footballers closer to the fans because so many of them are on there. I was cynical about it to begin with, but I have been converted.

I think technology gives the illusion that you are connecting with people, social media particularly.

In an odd sort of way, the computer and the Internet is the hermit's ideal form of communication. You don't have to see anyone. To send an email, you don't have to talk to anyone. You can just send it, and they'll read it on their own. The Internet has been really good for hermits.

I'm very aware that when my friends and I sit around over dinner these days, the conversation invariably turns to how crass the world has become. Tweeting? It's one of the silliest things ever.

I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.

Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.

We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings.

Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.

Like all technology, social media is neutral but is best put to work in the service of building a better world.

There is never going to be a substitute for face-to-face communication, but we have seen since the alphabet, to the telephone and now the Internet, that whenever people find a new way to communicate, they will flock to it.

We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.

We have to wonder whether digital technology, rather than making it easier to communicate, is actually doing the opposite. We now sit alone at a keyboard, firing off zeros and ones into the ether. Offices are silent.

Digital technology is both arousing and distancing. We don't look at the users on the other side as people. They aren't - they're just usernames, Facebook photos and Twitter handles.

Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.

You know, kids text a lot today. It's phenomenal.

I don't tweet.

We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.

There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.