Susan Orlean Quotes

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.

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.

I've never owned a cell phone and don't plan on ever having one. If anyone needs to talk to me, they know where I live.

E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.

The Internet is like the phone. To be without it is ridiculous.

Very few people use landline phones for much of anything. So when you talk about things like online chat and social media messages and emails, what you're really talking about is the full extent of human communication.

I text my girlfriends. I look at Facebook. I check my e-mail. If I'm away from the news cycle more than a few hours, I feel out of touch.

I don't believe in e-mail. I rarely use a cell phone and I don't have a fax.

I don't do Twitter, Facebook; none of that. My email I do from my Blackberry or my iPhone.

The way communication works is changing.

The Internet has changed everything. We expect to know everything instantly. If you don't understand digital communication, you're at a disadvantage.

I don't use Facebook or Twitter, and I email once in a blue moon, as I'm a rather slow typist and prefer to pick up the phone and hear a voice.

My cell phone is the number one way for me to communicate with my fans. I love the direct connection I can make via social media whether I am on the road or at home.

I'm not the kind to hang out on Facebook or Twitter or even talk on the cellphone, really.

I actually get very little phone calls. I get way more tweets and texts. My phone rarely rings.

Communications is the biggest driver of frequency of use of anything. Think about how many times a day you check your email on your phone or text someone or message someone.

I don't do Facebook, Twitter, I don't do any of the social media.

We don't even know our friends' phone numbers anymore.

When we look at social media, we really look at it on a continuum, and the continuum is from accumulation to instant expression.

If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day.

I don't think people understand the power of social media or our phones.

Internet has created the ability to connect people instantly.

Twitter, Instagram - I don't do it at all.

You can have a real ongoing dialogue through social media that wasn't possible before.

Social networks didn't exist when I started. Twitter and Facebook didn't exist. It was all about MySpace when I first got in the game.