Caitlin Moran Quotes

Psychologists call this the online disinhibition effect, in which factors like anonymity, invisibility, a lack of authority, and not communicating in real time strip away the mores society spent millennia building. and its sweeping from our smartphones into every aspect of our lives.

People feel emboldened to say things on the Internet they wouldn't in person.

The power of the Web is obvious and undeniable. We diminish it at our peril. But what if the most potent social effect to spread outward from the Internet turns out to be disinhibition, the breaking down of personal restraints and the endless elevation of oneself? It may be already.

I've been a jerk on the internet since the internet started.

The internet is the realm of the coward. These are all people who are all sound and no fury.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

The nature of the internet is that you don't know who is behind the screen.

On stage and in person, I think I am nice, thoughtful, and empathetic. But for some reason when I'm online, I become super aggressive and unhinged. I should probably get off of Twitter and see a therapist.

I honestly believe that people sit behind their computers and just get really brave.

The Internet is especially adept at compressing humanity and making it easy to forget there are people behind tweets, posts, and memes.

I have no history with 4chan.

In some ways, blogging is like drinking - it gives a person permission to be a total asshole.

The Internet gave a place like, 'Oh, I'll do whatever I want now. Nobody's going to see it anyways.' Oddly enough, people started watching and I got more confident, comfortable with it.

Particularly on social media, there is that level of detachment, some people feel like they can say whatever pops in their head .

I think the Internet shortens the distance between people, and that can often lead to inappropriateness.

I'm a computer freak. I'm on the Internet every night. Sometimes I play dungeons and dragons with 15-year-old boys who think I'm a 15-year-old boy with a weird vocabulary.

There's always going to be a tradeoff between trolling and anonymity, and I guess that's the way life will be. And you can manage it, but you can't cure it.

I love the Internet, and the Internet loves me back. Why else would it offer me so much sex?

Why would anyone say this stuff about themselves on the Internet? It's crazy!

I observe a lot of you drunk people. What I do is I just let myself go there and fully commit to that drunk thing, not that I've ever done that myself. I've had a lot of practice. Let's be honest.

I suspect most self-described 18-year-old Scandinavian women named Inga who collect and wear string bikinis are, in reality, more likely to be middle-aged, pot-bellied guys named Lou who collect and wear string cheese.

The Internet is an audience of one, a million times over.

All the old rules - if you say some crazy stuff you get your show canceled or you get your campaign ended - don't apply in the world of social media. They don't apply in the world of reality TV.

Some people are sass monsters on twitter. Like honey, you need to chill.

Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity.