Brian Greene Quotes

Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.

On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.

Blogs are for anoraks who couldn't get published any other way.

As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

I have always had stuff on the Internet. Way back in the Myspace days, I had a lot of friends on Myspace. And it is just all about, like, networking - contacting people and showing people, like, your mind.

'Vanity pages,' is somewhat of a derogatory term; personal pages are still the heart of blogging, but now there are more topic-oriented blogs. It's really about personal expression, and that's just gotten bigger and broader.

I'm proud of a lot of things I've said on Twitter.

I'm uncomfortable with selfies and status updates documenting mundane pieces of my life, which I don't think should be of interest to anyone else.

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

It's a personal thing whether one wants to be on social media or not.

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 don't read blogs, I don't have MySpace, I don't have Facebook or Twitter - none of that.

Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.

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!'

Everyone should have a blog. It's the most democratic thing ever.

My page is junk, because I hate putting anything to do with me on the site, it just feels wrong.

A lot of people don't know I can sing because I don't, like, post it everywhere.

Vast volumes of mixed media surround us, from music to games and videos. Yet almost all of our online actions still begin and end with writing: text messages, status updates, typed search queries, comments and responses, screens packed with verbal exchanges and, underpinning it all, countless billions of words.

A lot of people use social media to share mundane things or for self-glorification. I try to use it to share interesting things with people.

It's really cool now that we have Twitter and Facebook, and it's cool that people can post their thoughts and stories and just constantly on their timelines.

I started my blog in 2002. That was pre-MySpace, pre-Facebook. That was back before newspapers realized they were going out of business. That was back when no one gave any credence to Internet writers.

The problem most people make with their media presence is they're trying to craft a media presence as opposed to just consistently publishing who they are.

I was on Facebook. I'm not anymore, but my sister always sends pictures to a page. I'm sure you can find a Bradley Cooper there.

I tweet myself and do all the Facebook updates. It started off with me wondering whether I was showing off and I was very careful about what I wrote.