Meghan Daum Quotes

It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.

I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.

The way communication works is changing.

The moment instant communications was within the grasp of all, America was bonded and annealed into an almost indivisible one.

We didn't even have email when I was in college.

The world has gotten smaller and more accessible since I first started writing in the 70's.

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

Some of my friends don't have a cell phone. Patti LaBelle doesn't have a cell phone.

I think that new communications are wonderful and I am delighted to be a part of the Internet generation.

Very few people use landline phones for much of anything. So when you talk about things like online chat and social media messages and emails, what you're really talking about is the full extent of human communication.

You're talking to somebody who two years ago couldn't figure out how to use e-mail and who now has carpal tunnel. It has totally changed in that these films would not be getting out to people the way they're getting out without the Internet.

I don't take part in texting and those other things myself, so I don't really know if people put as much thought into messaging as they used to into writing letters.

I don't believe in e-mail. I rarely use a cell phone and I don't have a fax.

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

Unlike then, the mail stream of today has diminished by such things as e-mails and faxes and cell phones and text messages, largely electronic means of communication that replace mail.

Equipped with two cell phones - one for work and another for home - I like to think of myself as a kind of 21st-century digital pioneer, ready to network, fax, page, e-mail and - oh, yes - talk at will.

Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate in an instant almost anywhere. Gone is the slow old letter - itself a monologue, a sort of considered performance of best self - and in its place is the e-mail, the text, the SMS, the tweet.

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

We have collapsed distances, taken down walls, and spread information.

This new form of communication could have some utility.

I used to have a BlackBerry. E-mail and text messaging and all those things that make life so much easier now.

Communications is the biggest driver of frequency of use of anything. Think about how many times a day you check your email on your phone or text someone or message someone.

I would not have pretty much any of the good things in my life if it weren't for the Internet.

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.