Ari Lennox Quotes

In the age of social media and dating apps, so many people are able to hide behind their Instagram page or their Raya page or Facebook. And it's like, 'Let's set something up! I want to meet face-to-face.' And 'Take Me' was about, 'Are you going to take me out? Do I have to be the first person to make the move?'

When you meet people you've interacted with on social media, they are not like they are on social media.

I like to meet girls in real life because social media is such a front, and you can come across and look however you want.

There are two types of people on social media: people who want more followers, and liars.

I have friends that I have made through Twitter or things like that, but they're all verified as real people - I've either seen them perform, or we're mutual fans of each other, something like that. I don't have any authentic, 'Catfish'-worthy stories.

My life is nothing like my videos. I'm definitely not walking around with lots of hot women, as I am in my videos.

People think they have a perfect idea of who you are from a four-second Snapchat video... and fake blogs, stories, magazine covers. In reality, that's not the case. Nobody knows who I am except family and my close friends.

I did Internet dating for a while, and that is rife with horrible dating stories.

The Internet is where you can find people who are authentic.

Approximating authenticity online is not such a tall order. In fact, it may be the very least we can do.

I think Instagram at its best is where you feel like you're getting the most authentic version of the person on the other side of the camera. Someone who does this wonderfully well is Lena Dunham.

I mean, look when you meet me in real life, I'm not the person you see on the Internet, as disappointing as that is.

I am not against people finding people to date on social media. That's the way it goes now.

For the record, I don't really hate myself, but I do hate the way I portray myself online.

It's dangerous that we can all paint a completely false picture of ourselves.

Sometimes on-camera friends don't translate into your real life, but not for me.

There's more of me on Twitter than there is in real life.

If you look like you're hiding something, we're more likely to swipe left.

You don't even know if the person you're communicating with online is actually that person. And your persona on your social media - your Facebook or Twitter - may not be the person you are in real life. So then, who is the real person? Is it somewhere in between?

There's no difference between my persona on Twitter and Instagram and in real life.

I've hung out and dated people I've never even met before.

All the blogs, Facebook, Twitter are made by people who want to show their own private affairs at the price of making fakes, to try to appear such as they are not, to construct another personality, which is a veritable loss of identity.

I suspect most self-described 18-year-old Scandinavian women named Inga who collect and wear string bikinis are, in reality, more likely to be middle-aged, pot-bellied guys named Lou who collect and wear string cheese.

Some people believe that they should have two different lives, and one is what they show on TV and one is their personal life. I am not that person.

I do not remember in my whole life I ever willfully misrepresented anything to anybody at any time. I have never knowingly had connection with a fraudulent scheme.