Tyne Daly Quotes

I text and email my friends and family a lot, but that's about the extent of my high-tech-etude.

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.

Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.

You know, kids text a lot today. It's phenomenal.

I don't want no mail. Send me a Facebook message.

Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate in an instant almost anywhere. Gone is the slow old letter - itself a monologue, a sort of considered performance of best self - and in its place is the e-mail, the text, the SMS, the tweet.

The way communication works is changing.

My generation was born to work with social media - it's a natural part of our communication with the world.

Social media is fine, depending on how you use it.

Tweeting is something you can do wherever you are, on your phone, on the computer, in an airport lounge. It's easy to do, and I do find it fun to communicate with people. It's quite nice that we can have almost direct contact with anyone in the world at any time. I don't know how important it is in terms of one's career. It seems to be pretty much superfluous in terms of that, but it's nice to communicate.

Some people really like to get into Twitter, but it's not my thing.

There are a lot of pros and cons about social media; it's just how you choose to handle it and how you have to be prepared for the negatives as well.

Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.

Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I get text messages on my cell phone all day long, and it warbles to alert me that someone has sent me a message on Facebook or a reply or direct message on Twitter, but it rarely ever rings.

To be honest, I've been a passionate advocate for the value of tech to help us connect to people in real and emotional ways - and stick up for myself when people say, 'Sklar! Stop tweeting!'

Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction.

I really do love social media. I've always been crazy about - even like, remember AOL chat rooms? I always loved message boards, and I was always interacting on the computer.

You're talking about a younger generation, Generation Y, whose interpersonal communication skills are different from Generation X. The younger generation is more comfortable saying something through a digital mechanism than even face to face.

I had no idea that social networking would be as prominent as it is today. And it's important to understand what that phenomenon is. If you text someone, you get an immediate response; if you e-mail them, you probably never hear from them.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

Young people know how to use these social networking tools, and they know how to use them effectively.

Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.

It's amazing how directly you can connect with people via social media.

I do Facebook, but I only have my friends and family on it, and they always laugh at me for how little I post. I don't know how to upload photos, so I never add pictures.