Joanna Jedrzejczyk Quotes

Norman Parke needs to stay off of Twitter before he gets himself in a fight he can't win.

The Internet is a big place where a lot of people can voice their opinions, and my mother chooses to pick fights with random people from all over the world who don't have the nicest things to say about me.

Most of the serious disagreement I get comes through email or social media, where people are more comfortable.

I've never been in a 'Twitter fight,' though I've witnessed my fair share. I do enjoy vigorous and informed debate, but the benefit is lost when the exchange becomes a series of petty ad hominem attacks. I don't see much value in it.

The older you get, the more you realize you cannot win on the Internet.

A lot of times, it seems like social media has devolved into people just yelling at each other and not really conversing.

If someone annoys you on Twitter, and they only have three friends, retweet it, then block them.

When I was in college, my high school best friend and I had a terrible falling-out. It was entirely because of Facebook.

There's definitely something about the impact of social media in terms of people being able to go from slightly angry with each other to 'fight' very quickly.

If you don't know what Gamergate is, my God, do I envy you.

When I see my friends engaging in a Twitter war for an afternoon, I think that would destroy me for a month.

Mostly, I stay out of social media conversations. But sometimes, they hunt me down and shoot at me anyway!

Thank God the Internet didn't exist when I was 15, 16. I knew people were tearing me apart, but my God, if there had been a net and commenters and I would have been reading them - it was bad enough as it was. To grow up in the media eye, I'm glad it happened, but that was definitely not healthy being around adults all the time.

The internet is ruthless. And people are very, very happy to let you know when they don't like something.

I hate Twitter. I think it's disgusting. It's ridiculous that you as a stranger can type something to me, and I see it. Technology has gone too far.

It was genuinely horrible. I stopped using Twitter for a while because I got so much s**t about being anorexic. And Im not.

Luckily my fans are so lovely and I haven't really had to - what's the phrase? - "Clap back at the trolls?" Every now and then I do get a troll that mentions my skin color and calls me ugly names, though, like "Dark Monkey." Most of the time those people have their pages blocked, or you can't even see their profile picture. I can't focus on that. What I've realized is that I have the power to control how I feel about what they say.

Even worse than seeing women's privacy violated on social media is reading the accompanying comments that show such a lack of empathy.

People are going so far as to kill themselves over the things that happen online.

With social media, so many people have anxiety and depression because of it. Of course technology is somewhat good, but it can present so many issues; more and more we're seeing what that's causing, and it's even leading to deaths. I just got finished doing a documentary called Anx with children talking about anxiety and recognizing their emotions and understanding them better. We need to let kids know it's OK to not be OK. And we need to help them be comfortable talking about it.

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

Sometimes I look [ on trolls on Twitter], but even one ignorant comment can make me go, "Oh god."

I never knew I was so stupid or so ugly until there was social media.

I think as a parent if you don't understand the perils of social media and what it does to kids, you're neglectful because it's probably the biggest polluter in a child's mind.

We all know or have read about someone who has been burned on social media. We have taught our kids not to post pictures publicly that could impact their future, but we have not yet taught ourselves that texts, messages and social media posts could be used just as maliciously or with as much downside as pictures.