George Clooney Quotes

Do we value privacy in any real way? Thinking about blogs, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace... all these suggest we value exposure rather more. And instead of challenging this transformation, as they are supposed to - certainly at the more thoughtful edges of the art - novelists are buying into it wholesale.

I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.

Regarding social media, I really don't understand what appears to be the general population's lack of concern over privacy issues in publicizing their entire lives on the Internet for others to see to such an extent... but hey it's them, not me, so whatever.

Even if people would know who we are, or you could click on a Wikipedia page saying my date of birth, it does not necessarily mean that I have to go out on social media and tell you where I'm eating.

I talk to my fan club members, and I blog, and they know what's going on. But as far as Twitter, I'll be in a restaurant, and I'll get home, and somebody tweeted, and they talked about what I ordered and what I was wearing. In some cases, that could be dangerous, because you don't want everybody to know where you are every second of every day.

I am not a fan of Facebook or Twitter. They both allow too much information to be available and they make privacy a thing of the past.

Just mention the idea of warrantless wiretaps and expect to get hit up with a congressional investigation. But give somebody an avatar and a URL, and he can't tweet, post or hyperlink enough personal information about himself to as many people as possible.

I don't really use Facebook, because I find it a bit intrusive on your personal life.

I am comfortable with technology. I am a private person and would rather not be on Twitter or Facebook.

No man should be on Facebook. It's an invasion of everyone's privacy. I really cannot stand it.

There is no privacy in our culture anymore, so I have to try and carve that out for myself, but I'm OK with it.

I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.

On social networking sites, we may expose ourselves, but we choose to do so. We are in control and, often wrongly, we do not feel we are giving away tradable data.

Privacy may actually be an anomaly.

It was a phenomenon I noticed many years ago. Young people were just giving up every bit of information about themselves they could.

I'm not on Facebook. I'm not on Twitter. I know a lot of celebrities who go around complaining how little privacy they have.

I'm not a Facebook girl. Even though there is a fake Facebook with my name, it's not me. I'm not on Twitter; it's not me.

I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.

I think there is a possible future where maybe we do just take a hard turn away from the Internet and we do start valuing our privacy again.

You can use your real identity, or you can use phone numbers for something like WhatsApp, and pseudonyms for something like Instagram. But in any of those you're not just sharing and consuming content, you are also building relationships with people and building an understanding of people.

People's arrest tapes, mug shots, everything is online.

As we all become increasingly reliant on social networking websites and new technologies to stay connected, it's important to remain cognizant of how private personal information and data is handled.

I don't like showing my privacy online.

I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.

Anyone who steps back for a minute and observes our modern digital world might conclude that we have destroyed our privacy in exchange for convenience and false security.