Iris Apfel Quotes

I do not go on my Wikipedia page. There's just too much weird information on there for me to pick apart.

I'm not big on looking up myself. I don't get Google alerts, and I don't look on blogs.

I had a blog where I tried to be transparent while giving away nothing. I tweeted and Facebooked badly. As a writer, your 'voice' is your calling card, yet my voice was becoming indistinguishable from billions of other voices.

I have a private Instagram and an official one, so I'm not opposed to social media.

By Googling myself, I'm not going to find anything I like.

Everyone self-Googles. And, I have, of course, the Google alert.

I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.

You won't be exiled to permanent unemployment just because there's a picture somewhere of you holding a red Solo cup and looking underage. But, your Google results tell a story: Have you been in the news? Authored articles or blog posts? What types of topics do you frequently tweet about?

Everything I post online is curated.

God only knows what else is on the web about me.

There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.

Most days I am in public. If I go to the store, with social media, I'm in public. It might as well be a press conference.

Social media is changing the way we communicate and the way we are perceived, both positively and negatively. Every time you post a photo, or update your status, you are contributing to your own digital footprint and personal brand.

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.

Creating a representation of yourself for the Internet stopped making sense when we were all on phones and connected everywhere.

Every day I don't Google my name, there's another beautiful day.

These days with the web, you can burn out a character really quick.

It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.

You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.

It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It's just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.

I didn't necessarily intend it for myself, but it just happens with Instagram and Twitter; people come up to me and call me Emrata; they don't call me Emily. That's my brand, my identity.

I do not have a Facebook page, and I do not chat on Twitter. I don't have a web site, even if there are people who have opened one in my name, complete with my photo.

Some people bare their entire life on the Internet. There are politicians and actors, who like that. But there are some who don't want to do that.

I don't really care much about being a meme. That's not what I want to be known for, as being a meme from 2016. That's not what I'm here for.

I've been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That's why I'm on social media a lot.