Alice Levine Quotes

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

There's this weird thing that happens when you contribute something to a static profile. You have to worry about how this new content fits in with your online persona that's supposed to be you. It's uncomfortable and unfortunate.

Now every person edits the story they tell about themselves, carefully ensuring what the world looks at - whether it's over Instagram, Twitter or Facebook.

When it comes to how I portray myself online, I'm trying to be as real as I can and show people every side of what I do and not just put up selfies online of me in full done-up make up and stuff.

I'm very specific about what I put out on social media about myself. But that's also why I like social media: because it feels like the only thing that I have to control my own image.

My office is on Twitter. I don't tweet myself - at least, not intentionally, but I probably should do.

I think that people post to social media to help shape their public identity.

The upside of social media is you can craft how you want people to see you in some way.

Instagram is my edit of my life.

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

My Twitter account status used to say 'part-time playboy' on it, but I've taken that down now.

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

All of us in the modern world are constructing our identities, largely through social media, for a larger audience.

I think social media is a slippery slope because while you're projecting something out to people, they also project back onto you what they want to see.

Social media is an advertisement for the superficial extroverted self.

Everything I post online is curated.

Instagram is just a way of showing the world a little piece of what you're like. You're not really giving everything away - it's not like you're making videos every second; you're just giving a little picture of what's happening in your life. No one can really completely figure it out.

Your life and everything about your world should be represented on your social media accounts, and everybody feels that way from family to friends to boyfriends and girlfriends.

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.

America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves.

How do you manage your online identity? It's something I talk about with my students all the time.

Social media is changing the way we communicate and the way we are perceived, both positively and negatively. Every time you post a photo, or update your status, you are contributing to your own digital footprint and personal brand.

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now.

I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is.

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