William Eggleston Quotes

Technologically, I live in the 17th century; I don't have a computer, I don't have any of that stuff. I don't look at the Internet, although I know people tell me I'm all over it. Somebody told me they Googled me, and they said I was mentioned two million times, some stupid thing... but who cares?

I continue to shun, in a very curmudgeonly fashion, things like Twitter and Facebook.

I am a little curmudgeonly about new media.

I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.

I'm not on Twitter or any of that rubbish. I'm an old man.

Technology has allowed me to reach my fans directly. Social media: it has been a complete revolution of how to interact, promote and share things.

I am no technophobe. I like being able to calibrate communication, depending on the situation - texting for the simple and immediate; email for business or when I want to put some lag time into the exchange; Twitter to promote something; Facebook to draw a crowd.

The younger generation has embraced Twitter and Facebook massively, and they spend most of their time on there. So if I want to reach new fans or keep in touch with my current, I try to use Twitter and Facebook as much as possible.

It's a whole new world out here. The online world is like a blackboard on which, when you write, the whole world can see - and I'm thrilled about this development. I want to make full use of it.

My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.

Even the most brilliant accomplishments on the Internet are essentially cold. Google has changed the world, but you don't snuggle up to it. YouTube is a giant carnival, filled with freaks and mountebanks, a place to gawk and laugh and get bored. Certainly not a place to feel anything.

We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.

I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

There's a kind of immediacy that comes with being constantly connected that I don't really relate to in my generation.

I'm such a grandma. I don't tweet; I don't have a Facebook page.

I don't watch TV. I don't use a computer, a fax or a cellphone.

I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoints and things of that sort.

I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He's always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way.

Technology has given us access to the world and its sea of content, allowing us to never speak to another person if we don't want to.

History has shown that there needs to be some agora, or public spaces, and I think that we already live a lot of our life on a laptop, or even smaller devices that we hold in our hands.

Everything is online these days. Even a small bit of information is immediately put up on Twitter or sent via WhatsApp.

I'm too old to understand Snapchat.

I'm not into social media. I'm like from another century.

We can be incredibly disconnected in this day and age with computers and cell phones.

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