Susan Orlean Quotes

I think, like, Twitter is somewhat difficult sometimes, and it can be kind of negative.

I don't tweet. I prefer face-to-face communication and sometimes Instagram.

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.

There are so many emoticons these days, I'm kind of old fashioned.

Tweeting? It's one of the silliest things ever.

I don't tweet.

I do use texting as a great way to communicate quickly, but I don't Twitter or anything.

The world cannot live on 140 characters alone.

Twitter is an amazing thing; it brings footballers closer to the fans because so many of them are on there. I was cynical about it to begin with, but I have been converted.

Sure, the Internet is the future, but what we do on the Internet is still very primal. It's all about connecting to other people, sharing emotion. It's our new feathers or face paint. It's all very raw.

The Internet has given us 10 or 15 new styles of communication: long messages like blogging, and then short messages like texting and tweeting. I see it all as part of an expanding array of linguistic possibilities.

I don't use Twitter to share my thoughts - I use it to make statements that are quite blunt and hopefully fun.

I don't get Twitter or social media. I really don't understand it or read it. I see it as a distraction.

I don't have a Twitter, so I don't know what's happening in that world.

Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.

That definitely I feel is part of my generation: social networking, communication over the Internet, whether it's Skype or IRC or some form of text-based chat, text messaging.

I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research.

Twitter is the place where I try to be more funny. And then I use Instagram just as my diary. I pull some jokes on there, but I think people have a better sense of humor on Twitter.

I think when you're starting up a situation, it's really fun texting or BBMing or whatever.

I have to say, I worry about Twitter. Not that it will survive - they don't need my blessing for that - but that it will stay the kind of open, community-enhancing-and-enabling site that made it flourish at the outset.

Twitter is essential to me because I wake up and check it religiously. It's a way I communicate with my fan base.

I'm a Twitter addict. Jose Andres is a serial tweeter. It's funny to see which chefs have embraced it, and the different paths they take.

A lot of people are living their lives online in much more public ways with Facebook and Twitter.

I've been on a tweeting mission.

I don't know what's hipper: to Facebook or to Twitter. I just know for me, personally, discretion never went out of style.