Emily Meade Quotes

I don't tweet or do any other social media, so I don't know what's being said out there.

I am a nonparticipant of social media. I'm not much attracted to anything that involves the willing forfeiture of privacy and the foregrounding of insignificance.

I think social media has taken over for our generation. It's a big part of our lives, and it's kind of sad.

Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.

As a young adult, we all go through things now on social media. It's a part of our everyday lives.

Social media has changed our lives forever. Some continue to reject social media, refusing to become one of the sheep, but you just can't avoid it.

Having Twitter on your phone is like being with a journalist that hates you 24 hours a day. Anything you say on that can be spun. Truly, that's what you have to think of it as.

You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections - the presence you've spent years establishing on the world's dominant social network?

In the world of Facebook and Twitter, you can treasure hunt for tidbits about somebody that you find interesting and pretty much find out everything you need to know - which is why I stay away from social media - I'm terrified of it.

If you don't have a Facebook, like, you're nobody. There's all of these sort of requirements now, and if you don't have all of these things - Facebook, Twitter, etc. - you're made fun of. And Twitter for celebrities... everything is just getting so personal. Pictures of yourself, of what you're eating for breakfast.

Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways.

I would hate to be in high school now. Psychologists talk about the 'imaginary audience' that teens seem to feel they have around them and that makes them think they have to keep up their image all the time. Now with Facebook and MySpace and 24/7 online access, that imaginary audience has become real.

Radical transparency has an enormous impact on our personal lives. We can no longer share thoughts, quips, photos or personal opinions anywhere on the web without being mindful that they may turn up where we least expect it (notably job interviews, divorce proceedings or public media).

Twitter is awesome to share news with fans, but I would never choose to only have social media and put everything in my life on display.

I don't do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology.

Social media worries me because it's not part of my world.

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

You don't have to be famous to have problems on social media. It affects everyone, and it's on there forever, and the things you say when you're 15 are not necessarily what you'd say when you're 25 or 35.

It's terrifying, social media. It terrifies me.

Social media is incredible: it creates a community that I'm really proud to be a part of, but it also creates illusions and a false reality, and it's difficult to grow up with that.

Everything I post on social media, they make a headline out of it!

I don't do any social media. I'm not on Facebook or Twitter. I'm just not interested.

I don't have social media. I don't have Facebook or Instagram or Snapchat.

I refuse to do Snapchat. I'm not getting it, and I kind of like having mystery.

I've seen the negative impact social media can have, particularly on younger players, who grew up with Twitter and Instagram as an integral part of life.