Greta Gerwig Quotes

Facebook has created a rash of mental zombies in a meme-feeding frenzy.

I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.'

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

Entire books are being written about the distractions of social media. I don't believe media compel distraction, but I think it's clear that they afford it.

Some people are totally fine with just checking Instagram once a day and then putting their phone down. But with me... self regulation is very difficult and it's a battle.

Social media is making us more anti-social.

We're in a society where no one's putting a gun to your head and making you use your phone, but some people start to crack. "I Want the Heartbeat" is about the downside of it. People can and do break up friendships and relationships because of the internet, and that can't be good. You have to find a balance. You can't let it be the boss of you.

I'm amazed at the amount of time people spend on the Internet.

For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.

I don't have a Twitter or a Facebook, but that doesn't mean I'm any more productive than the rest of the world.

We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.

Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community.

The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind.

Texting is addicting. Once you get emotionally involved with constant outside stimulation assaulting your brain, it is hard to stop looking at your machine every two minutes. Without rapid fire words appearing on a screen, you feel bored, not part of the action.

On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.

I didn't have any vices before the Internet. There are a lot of cracks in the day, moments where you don't know what to do next, so you have a little hole where you look at your phone. You want something that will mean you're not alone in that moment.

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.

The world is beset by many problems, but in my opinion, this hijacking of our brain's reward centers by electronic media is potentially one of the most destructive.

To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shortening attention spans, the physical cost of sedentary 'surfing' and the potential for coarsening discourse as millions of web pages compete for attention by appealing to our base instincts.

Sleeping with your phone in your bedroom is never a good idea, but it's even worse when you're bullied online because it's too tempting to stay up all night trying to 'fix' the situation - which isn't possible anyway.

The Internet has played a major role in undermining public morality.

I get concerned when I see kids on their phones. They don't read enough anymore, anything longer than a tweet.

One day I hope to not have a Twitter, to be sick enough that I don't have to use the Internet.

I miss my pre-Internet brain, but that doesn't help anything. We can only go forward.