Hasan M. Elahi Quotes

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.

I've used the Internet since I was in high school - it was my tool for self-promotion.

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.

You can use your real identity, or you can use phone numbers for something like WhatsApp, and pseudonyms for something like Instagram. But in any of those you're not just sharing and consuming content, you are also building relationships with people and building an understanding of people.

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

I don't want to be on the Internet.

I have a Twitter account. I own my name, but I've never tweeted.

I have this really bad habit of doing things on the Internet and forgetting that the whole world is going to see it.

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.

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

And if you get caught up in combing the Internet for what people think of you or how people perceive you, I think that's a slippery slope.

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.

I'm not big on looking up myself. I don't get Google alerts, and I don't look on blogs.

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

There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.

I swear on everything holy I do not know what's on the Internet about me.

I had a blog where I tried to be transparent while giving away nothing. I tweeted and Facebooked badly. As a writer, your 'voice' is your calling card, yet my voice was becoming indistinguishable from billions of other voices.

I have a private Instagram and an official one, so I'm not opposed to social media.

By Googling myself, I'm not going to find anything I like.

I've got a Facebook page, but I've never put anything on it. I've got a presence on all the social networks, in fact, but I've never once sent a message. I'm there because, otherwise, someone's going to pretend to be me.

It's an odd thing when there is a fan page for my daughter who is not yet 13.

Eeew, I'd be a little uncomfortable Googling myself. People sit there - and Google themselves? That's kind of weird.

Look, 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. But if I wasn't in this position, I'm sure I would use it every day.

I have always had stuff on the Internet. Way back in the Myspace days, I had a lot of friends on Myspace. And it is just all about, like, networking - contacting people and showing people, like, your mind.

Everyone self-Googles. And, I have, of course, the Google alert.