Cecily von Ziegesar Quotes

The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?

Through social media, young people are constantly being pinged about a whole slew of potentially better matches or social activities.

When I first heard about Twittering, I thought it was the most disgusting thing I'd ever heard of in my life. It's like the devil: the idea that your personal life is there for everybody.

I am so appalled by the whole social media thing. I don't get it; it doesn't appeal to me. Neither does a computer or working on a laptop.

Social media - It's not real life. I only caught the tail end of it in high school. It can be good, and it can be fun, but you can't let it get toxic.

When I was in college, my high school best friend and I had a terrible falling-out. It was entirely because of Facebook.

If you're having problems with someone on the Internet, simply block the person and move on. And if you do want to meet people from online, make sure you do your research to make sure you're talking to the person you want to be talking to.

I think if you want to engage in social media, you must take the good with the bad.

I was kind of a MySpace kid in high school, and people thought since I had so many MySpace friends that they didn't need to be nice to me in real life. They were like, 'You get enough attention online,' or they were jealous or something. I don't really know.

Social media isn't as quaint as it was when I started my Livejournal back in high school.

As I've said before, I'm a big fan of social media because it allows players and fans to interactive but it can have its pitfalls.

With social media, there is a fashion that we speak louder than we think. It has just become a platform where people just judge and spread anger and hate.

There are positive things that come of social media as well as negative.

The sole forms of social interaction I was aware of as a kid involved a jungle gym and a sticker book. It was only in high school that ICQ - a prehistoric form of instant messaging - was first incorporated into my cultural vocabulary.

I think in this world of social media, we will be lost if we don't have an online account.

Social media is just a platform. What some people decide to do with it results in something good or bad.

You can't troll somebody who doesn't see it.

We are raising a generation of children who may not know how to mobilize without Facebook.

The Internet has transformed the landscape of children's social lives, moving cliques from lunchrooms and lockers to live chats and online bulletin boards and intensifying their reach and power.

In the age of social media, everyone's a newspaper columnist, exaggerating what they think and feel.

Even though I have Twitter, I only use it to say, 'Oh, this is coming out.' I would never voice anything about me, really.

I don't get Twitter or social media. I really don't understand it or read it. I see it as a distraction.

My mum and dad have made Twitter accounts, and they will send me links if there is a bad review and tell me they'll find out where the reviewer lives.

Hollywood, Twitter, our friends - they all contribute to a community of snark. The more we engage in the way that everyone else engages, the more followers, likes, and RTs we get. But we can't rail against the cyberbullies without acknowledging what we also contribute to a culture of cruelty.

You can't socialise without being faceless idiots. More people have Facebook friends than actual friends these days.