Sam Fender Quotes

The U-Tube Moment: The cameras are always on.

Most days I am in public. If I go to the store, with social media, I'm in public. It might as well be a press conference.

Every embarrassing moment is going to be shown on the Internet, whether the candidate likes it or not. The ones that can't deal with that are going to fail.

I have lived in public as a somewhat recognizable person since I was a teenager. Emails I answer end up posted on sites; pictures of me and someone I just met, taken by a cellphone, literally number in the thousands and are easily accessed.

If you don't have a Facebook, like, you're nobody. There's all of these sort of requirements now, and if you don't have all of these things - Facebook, Twitter, etc. - you're made fun of. And Twitter for celebrities... everything is just getting so personal. Pictures of yourself, of what you're eating for breakfast.

People know everything about everybody now.

Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.

The truth is, in this age of Instagram and Facebook and Snapchat, we know way too much about athletes - and it's their fault.

People are scared to have a strong opinion because, with social media, almost everyone lives the life of a celebrity.

People don't have the opportunity to be larger than life anymore - they're afraid of seeing it on the Internet.

In the Digital Age, recorders also tend to be oversharers, and with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest, they can do so on a grand scale.

Even if you're walking through the airport or going to pick up your mail, if you meet a fan and they have a camera, they will take a picture of you and millions could potentially see that picture - if it's picked up by a blog or whatever.

Creating a representation of yourself for the Internet stopped making sense when we were all on phones and connected everywhere.

Nowadays, everyone has a camera phone, and you have to be careful about being caught out there looking crazy and ending up on the Internet.

It's an odd thing when there is a fan page for my daughter who is not yet 13.

The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes.

Never have lives less lived been more chronicled.

Social media really makes it tricky for people sometimes because you go, 'Oh, it's awesome. I'm gonna play this character. I'm going to do this really weird thing on camera,' and then you go back and read all your tweets and go, 'Mmm, well, I guess they didn't like that so much.'

If I was on Twitter, I'd probably get in trouble pretty quickly.

I think I'm slightly older than the generation that was really bred on social media - I had Facebook in high school, but I was growing up in a time where these things were relatively new, and every generation below me is growing up having every single thing they do seen. And that is kind of frightening.

Sadly, it seems as if there is no longer any real history. Just momentary reactions to events that disappear like sky-writing with items like Twitter, texts, Meerkat, Snapchat, and Instagram.

We live in the new world where camera phones are everywhere, and you have to be on your best behavior at all times.

I loved Twitter. But I was going to end up saying something that would get me into trouble. I have kept a clean nose for a couple of years and wouldn't want something like Twitter to ruin it.

I've lived my entire life online.

People didn't go on YouTube to get famous back when I started.