Scarlett Moffatt Quotes

We go into restaurants, and people aren't talking anymore. They're texting. While they are sitting at a restaurant with each other. So we're losing this intimacy that we need to have as human beings.

I feel like kids are getting more and more used to communicating through a glass screen than they are face-to-face, and that worries me a little.

We live in a world where many of us have a lot of friends on Facebook but yet we have lost human connection.

We all think we are connected to the world now, but we are not talking to our neighbours any more.

I certainly think we're losing a lot of our connections with other people. I fear in my most pessimistic moments that the computer is simply another step down the road which we have already taken quite a few steps on. We're talking to each other on computers because we don't talk across the fence.

Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.

While the digital age has done so much to improve our world, it has dramatically changed our social structure, often further isolating us from each other.

People have entire relationships via text message now, but I am not partial to texting. I need context, nuance and the warmth and tone that can only come from a human voice.

People live too much of their lives on email or the Internet or text messages these days. We're losing all of our communication skills.

We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.

I think there's a fear of disconnect sometimes; communication is a huge issue for all of us, from adults to kids, as far as our face-to-face time and our ability to interact with each other without isolating itself to a phone. I think that has to be something that's very challenging.

The complicated, ambiguous milieu of human contact is being replaced with simple, scalable equations. We maintain thousands more friends than any human being in history, but at the cost of complexity and depth. Every minute spent online is a minute of face-to-face time lost.

We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.

The more technologically advanced our society becomes, the more we need to go back to the basic fundamentals of human communication.

I think, as people, we're isolating ourselves. We're talking to each other through our phones, arguing... those divisions freak me out.

Think about back in the day when we had Archie Bunker, 'The Jeffersons.' We had stuff to sit down and share and laugh at. The Internet has made it so we don't have to sit together anymore. It's so self-absorbed. No one has to talk to each other anymore, and people don't realize that that is killing us.

Technology has given us access to the world and its sea of content, allowing us to never speak to another person if we don't want to.

When 60 - 70 percent of all interpersonal conversations and relationships exist through text messaging or social media, it's hard to get advice from a parent who didn't grow up in that world.

I am emoji-heavy as hell. I'd use the same emoji 140 times just to communicate how excited I am.

Apps have made it easier to meet people but harder to connect.

I think hearing kids my age miss out on genuine connections already because they text so much, and then they feel awkward when they are face to face with someone.

I always get super confused by the way we look at technology, because since when were all phone calls created equal? It's not like every text is the same or that all texts are human interactions that are compromised. I don't get how conduits somehow dictate sentiment.

Today we're more distanced from each other, the bonds formed at the local shop replaced by the massive supermarket or the stressed driver thrusting a package through a letterbox. Instead of meeting in pubs, more of us sit at home with supermarket wine and Netflix.

The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

I find it fascinating to think about what the world is going to be like when people won't talk anymore.