Henning Mankell Quotes

I'm too old to understand Snapchat.

I mean, my mom knows Google, but she doesn't know MySpace.

I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social.

Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.

I personally never got the gist of Facebook and Twitter.

I'm on the Facebook board now. Little did they know that I thought Facebook was really stupid when I first heard about it back in 2005.

I wouldn't know how to be on Facebook if my life depended on it.

I've never sent an email in my life. My kids laugh. I often hand the phone to them and say, 'Can you text this message to somebody.' I don't even have a computer on my desk.

I'm definitely not on Twitter. I do have a Facebook page and Facebook friends. It's a lot of fun, especially if you don't just start friending people you don't know.

I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.

The vast majority of Americans perform sophisticated digital tasks on a daily basis. Grandmas and grandpas e-mail digital photos of their cruise trip and IM their kids in school. So a politician admitting that he or she can't bother to learn those things indicates a horse-and-buggy mentality.

I am actually on Facebook, but I only have one friend. It's a private account, and I have one friend. Mark Zuckerberg.

I'm not really part of the Internet world, my age a factor in that and a lack of interest in sharing with so many, so little, so much, so often.

I feel like an old person. I feel like, 'What is this technology?' I think there's some seven-year-olds who are more advanced than I am right now.

You can only adjust to so much history in your life. I still have trouble texting.

I really have to thank Facebook ... I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time. I would never say the people on it are losers, but that's only because I'm polite. People say 'But Betty, Facebook is a great way to connect with old friends.' Well at my age, if I wanna connect with old friends, I need a Ouija Board. Needless to say, we didn't have Facebook when I was growing up. We had phonebook, but you wouldn't waste an afternoon with it.

We didn’t have Facebook in my day, we had a phone book but you wouldn’t waste an afternoon on it

I am of the bridge generation that remembers life before social media permeated everything but cannot imagine life without it now.

There are a lot of people in D.C. who have never been on Twitter or Facebook and don't get what's happening.

The rise of digital technologies has eroded boundaries: Anyone can participate, start a business, and reach a global audience.

I don't Tweet or Twat. I'm not on Instagram or Facebook.

Technology is something you have to embrace because technology is part of our generation. Digital natives, for instance, are people who grew up in a world that always had the Internet and who always had smartphones. Millennials aren't too far behind: my generation of people, who were in the mix of the Internet when it first came out.

I'm not on Twitter or any of that rubbish. I'm an old man.

I think the Internet is more layered and complex than just hating it or liking it. I find it to be more purposeful to talk about the way that it's conducive for relationships and making connections.

I'm of the older generation. I accept the new technology, but I try to keep a bit of that away.