Chris Claremont Quotes

I love Twitter, but some people use profanity so much that at some point it's like saying, 'Pass the salt.'

No one has debates on Twitter.

We currently live in a culture where outrage is a bit of a hobby for some people. If they're not outraged about something, they're totally bored.

If I've learned anything from social media, it's truly that the most irrelevant people always say the most absurd stuff.

There's nothing that winds me up more on Twitter than people who are stupid, and who say the most ridiculous things.

You have to separate the negative into two categories - half of it is sensible, constructive things that has made us better. But half of the negative online is negative for the sake of being negative, and it's important for us to remember it's okay they don't like us, and sometimes there's no point in engaging in that.

I don't appreciate many of the things that are said on social media.

We live in this world of tweeting, and social media, and anti-social media, and all the rest, so no matter what you say, there is going to be what people say is a firestorm. I don't know what a firestorm is.

I'm really glad I'm not on Twitter. Because I'd have to be answering things that I didn't really know anything about, and I'd rather just wait for the dust to settle and then say something.

I'm not a big internet guy - not because I'm not interested in what people have to say, but probably because I'm too interested.

The Internet and Twitter and all these things are very powerful, but it also means sometimes that instead of having a dialogue we just start calling folks - calling each other names. And that's true on the left or the right.

I'm not on Twitter. In theory, I really like Instagram. I think it's a warmer environment. I think, though conversations can erupt that aren't always friendly, you have an opportunity to jump in and redirect and even caution people against language and behavior that I personally object to.

Even if I'm not so into the specific celebrities who are sharing images of themselves looking "bad," I think it's an amazing contribution to the conversations about beauty that we have online.

One of the great things going on right now is social media and you get a real sense, immediately, about what people are feeling and thinking.

When I first prepared this particular talk... I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn't been done. And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web. Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It's kind of a Gresham's Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation. Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can't criticize anything.

Twitter is a global town square.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

[The Internet generation is] not fighting that battle about who gets to speak; they all get to speak.

Today, we need to listen more carefully. I read what people say on Twitter, my friends on Path, in addition to formal media. I look for patterns, and then I post questions back to my network.

We are more connected than ever before, more able to spread our ideas and beliefs, our anger and fears. As we exercise the right to advocate our views, and as we animate our supporters, we must all assume responsibility for our words and actions before they enter a vast echo chamber and reach those both serious and delirious, connected and unhinged.

Particularly on social media, there is that level of detachment, some people feel like they can say whatever pops in their head .

Twitter," said Manny, waving his hand. "You know what that is? Termites with microphones.

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

In the age of the internet, with all of its problems, over time, the very fact that individuals can join the conversation creates the opportunity for the emergence of - for the re-emergence of a genuine conversation of democracy.

The Internet...has become the voice of the people in the first genuine experiment in democracy yet conducted in America. It stands ready to serve every facet, every faction.