Neal Shusterman Quotes

Approximating authenticity online is not such a tall order. In fact, it may be the very least we can do.

We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that.

It's weird: for someone who mostly really exists online, I'm actually not very interested in the Internet at all.

The web presents an opportunity to showcase any character your sick mind desires. Want to create a cross-dressing, deaf/mute, corrupt politician who has a soft spot for saving children? Go for it!

I curate my life in a way. It's always playing on my mind, kind of a love-hate relationship. I'm not one of those people who's, like, 'I wish Facebook wasn't around,' because, you know, it is what it is.

Look, I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is. But if I wasn't in this position, I'm sure I would use it every day.

There's definitely more to me offline than what you see online. Because what I show online is what I want to show to my followers... If I showed everything I did offline, it might not align with some of my other followers around the world.

We no longer have to capture the 'real world' and recreate it online. We simply live and communicate at the same time.

Online, you play at being yourself.

When I'm on Twitter, we just talk to people. I call all my Twitter followers my 'Twitter babies.'

It's such a deliberate thing to sit down and write a tweet. You're putting yourself out there in a very deliberate way, and over however many tweets, you start to create a character for yourself.

I have a Twitter account. I own my name, but I've never tweeted.

We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.

I Googled myself, and I saw some nice things and some not-so-nice things. I've learned that that stuff isn't real, and it doesn't exist unless you look at it.

Facebook has woven itself into the fabric of our lives and the foundation of the Internet. I think everything will be redefined because people are using their real identities on the Internet.

I really use social media to keep up with what's happening.

A troll's life is a no-physical-contact existence. You will die alone, as you die daily, online.

Things like Facebook and Twitter, all that stuff, are about, 'I'm here! Here I am! I'm somebody special!'

Social media and I have had a very tumultuous relationship.

Instagram is just something I like to do. I feel it's the best way to portray who you are.

It's all so surreal seeing yourself in a video game.

Everyone talks about how the anonymity of the Internet allows people to behave badly, but I think it's the other way around, that the anonymity removes the 'self' from the people we're talking to online. Other people lose their humanity in our eyes. The system is set up to dehumanize.

I'm not on social media.

I've said before I think the best thing about social media is that it brings people together and the worst thing about social media is that it brings people together. You're assuming that the people following you know what type of person you are and what type of humour you have.

Twitter is like - it's like I blinked into existence.