Jenny Mollen Quotes

All of us in the modern world are constructing our identities, largely through social media, for a larger audience.

I never got really into Twitter until more recently when I started doing the Dirt Nasty thing, and created that other character. I think it's almost essential now. I don't think Leonardo DiCaprio necessarily needs to do it, but someone like me, who's somewhere in the middle of nowhere and a shitstack, I need to do that.

America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves.

How do you manage your online identity? It's something I talk about with my students all the time.

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 think that people post to social media to help shape their public identity.

I'm way flashier on Instagram and Snapchat because I feel like that's what people want to see, and that's I've always done, so I'm not going to stop. People want to see my cars and my purses. People love fashion. But that's so not me.

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

I'm much nicer in person than on Twitter.

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.

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.

I don't need to Google myself.

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.

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

Personally, I don't have a Twitter account. I like to be in control of the way the stand up of Stewart Lee is perceived, I don't want to have to engage with individual people. Also, when I do look at it, loads of factually inaccurate things about me are written.

When people meet me or hear me in person, they quickly learn that I am much more than a tweet and a profile picture.

I recognize that, to someone who doesn't know my history, maybe I seem like this guy who gets dressed up for the Internet.

I get referred to as the social media kid on set, but I don't let it bother me. I try not to.

For me, Instagram had become a place where I could image myself the way I found myself.

The individual has now risen to the level of a mini-government or mini-corporation. Via YouTube and Twitter, each of us is our own mini-network.

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.

There's more of me on Twitter than there is in real life.

I've used the Internet since I was in high school - it was my tool for self-promotion.

I express myself a lot on Tumblr, especially through my diary entries, but my Instagram is my modeling portfolio. I have my game face on at all times.

I think social media is a slippery slope because while you're projecting something out to people, they also project back onto you what they want to see.