Ben Dolnick Quotes

People are always looking at their phones and computer. It's the first place people turn in the morning and where everyone's keeping in touch and getting their news.

It is now such a complex society in terms of media. It just comes at us from every direction. You kind of have to push it all away.

There's a lot of noise in the world, and the Internet magnifies that energy.

Under the deluge of minute-to-minute text conversations, emails, relentless exchange of media channels and passwords and apps and reminders and tweets and tags, we lose sight of what all this fuss is supposed to be about in the first place: ourselves.

I do all my shopping on the Web. I do much of my research online. I have a blog, too. It is definitely a distraction. It is definitely a blessing. What blessing isn't a distraction, though?

People do that on Facebook and it's the dumbest thing in the world. I don't care what your dinner looks like. Stop cluttering up the Internet with pictures of your dinner.

I try to stay away from all the blogs and messages boards.

There's so much competition for leisure time, more than ever.

That's what the internet is: it's like bombarding your eyeballs with these myriad blinking colour lights. It's like trying to watch a movie on your phone in the middle of Times Square.

There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.

Everybody is continuously connected to everybody else on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Reddit, e-mailing, texting, faster and faster, with the flood of information jeopardizing meaning. Everybody's talking at once in a hypnotic, hyper din: the cocktail party from hell.

It's a great thing to live in a digital age. It's convenient; it's fast.

I don't know about you, but all this modern technology that's supposed to save us time and effort has actually ended up making things more complicated in my life, eating up extra time.

The Internet is, among other things, a massive, chaotic marketplace. Too much information, it turns out, is a lot like no information.

I am aware, as everybody has to be, that there's more competition for one's attention nowadays.

Social media overwhelms me.

The great virtue of the web, its ease of communication, has also become its Achilles' heel in that it has polluted the air with meaningless babble and egomaniacal drivel.

I don't get Twitter or social media. I really don't understand it or read it. I see it as a distraction.

There are too many distractions on a computer.

I like to keep certain stuff to myself just because I feel like technology is taking over people's lives.

There's more to distract people, isn't there? When I was a kid there was music and football and clothes. And that was kind of it, really. Those three things defined you as a person.

In this day and age, there's just so much that can hyperstimulate us, and curiously, it is not satisfying us.

Anyone can post messages to the net. Practically everyone does. The resulting cacophony drowns out serious discussion.

I think that we live in a world - and this is something which living in Pakistan, perhaps, has taught me - and, you know, we live in a world where there is a constant feed from social media, the news, etc., of things that can scare us. And we become so anxious because human beings are meant - are designed to be sensitized to dangerous stuff.

As the amount of inputs go up, as the number of people and ideas that clamor for attention continue to increase, we do what people always do: we rely on the familiar, the trusted and the personal. The incredible surplus of digital data means that human actions, generosity and sacrifice are more important than they ever were before.