Beeban Kidron Quotes

We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that.

I have done a pretty good job of partitioning my life digitally, posting utterances and stories that I'm happy to share with anyone on Twitter, leaving a few sparse comments and 'Likes' on Facebook (I'm not a huge user of the service, I'll be honest), and sending any number of photos to thousands of 'followers' on Instagram and Tumblr.

Cyberspace as a mode of being will never go away. We live in cyberspace.

I live on the Internet.

'Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you're using computer technology on the Internet, for example, and I'm not entirely sure it's such a useful term, but I think that's what most people mean by it.

I curate my life in a way. It's always playing on my mind, kind of a love-hate relationship. I'm not one of those people who's, like, 'I wish Facebook wasn't around,' because, you know, it is what it is.

I wouldn't say you have an online life and a real life. I think technology is just mapping and organizing what already exists.

We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.

Approximating authenticity online is not such a tall order. In fact, it may be the very least we can do.

In 2017, I enjoyed my time on the Internet more than doing things in real life.

I don't take Twitter too seriously in the physical world.

Online is online. It's a whole other world. It's not actually real life.

I don't think much about the digital world... because I am in the analog world!

I've always been a geek, so I've always used the Internet, perhaps at first for autopromotion, as many authors do.

There is no time and space in the digital world. People chat and collaborate through social networks. Cultural icons garner millions of fans online in locations they have often never been themselves. The boundary between public and private life is now everyone's business.

Our generation's grown up with the Internet, so it's an extension of our social lives; it's an extension of us. It makes perfect sense for me to use that medium.

The Internet is where you can find people who are authentic.

I've been studying the psychology of online connectivity for more than 30 years.

The Internet is especially adept at compressing humanity and making it easy to forget there are people behind tweets, posts, and memes.

Everyone talks about how the anonymity of the Internet allows people to behave badly, but I think it's the other way around, that the anonymity removes the 'self' from the people we're talking to online. Other people lose their humanity in our eyes. The system is set up to dehumanize.

It's been well documented how we start to believe in our virtual or digital selves more than our real selves, but it's strange to think that human behaviour hasn't really changed at all since that legend was created.

Online, you play at being yourself.

The Internet is such... it's so not real. But it's big and it feels big when you're on it.

I grew up on Facebook; it's a different realm I live in. For some people, this is inauthentic, but for me, it's all I know.

The way people express themselves online, that's also how they express themselves in the real world.