Casey Wilson Quotes

The version of me on the Internet, it's not me. It's one portion.

Online, you play at being yourself.

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

I try to keep my social media really close to my personality. Then people can see exactly who I am and what I like to say and the message I want to bring.

The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors.

I watch people, friends of mine, and see how they portray themselves online and I find interesting that it's kind of a hyper-real version of yourself, how you'd like to be seen, in a way.

We live in an age where there is a firehose of information, and there is no hierarchy of what is important and what is not. Where the truth is often fashioned through a variety of digital means. Are you your avatar? Who are you in social media? What face do you turn toward the world? How much does it have in common with who you actually are?

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

Being is like pretending.

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

I Googled myself, and I saw some nice things and some not-so-nice things. I've learned that that stuff isn't real, and it doesn't exist unless you look at it.

You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.

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

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

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

People only see you in blogs, and they think they know everything about your life.

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.

Through technology and social media, we're able to create an identity online that shows people the face that we want them to see and rather than who they really are.

I do end up revealing a lot online, but in books, what I reveal is more tailored. Authors can couch revelations in fiction. With social media, no one wants to watch or read if it doesn't feel authentic, so you end up giving away a lot of yourself.

I'm an invention of the Internet. I'm like, the Internet went away for a few years and designed what the perfect online personality would look like and came back with me.

Don't judge me by what someone posts on my page on Facebook.

Of course, I always try to integrate my life on social media but I would be the last person to post a random picture just to get likes and just so that I can create some social media feed. For me, a post should have some meaning.