Sam Esmail Quotes

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.

I don't do Facebook and I don't do Twitter, and already I notice that, with some of my friends, there's a whole sphere of conversation that I'm completely on the outside of, and that's my choice. But, to a greater extent, that's what the whole of life is like.

I usually try to stay off my phone and enjoy the world, but when I am on my phone, it's always for social media - to talk to my bros and my fans and my friends.

One of the great ironies of the social media era is that some of the least social people in the world created it.

I particularly like Facebook because it straddles the gap between seeing people and not seeing them.

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.

Technology and communicating with people online or through a phone or through social media - it's a false sense of intimacy and connection.

In an odd sort of way, the computer and the Internet is the hermit's ideal form of communication. You don't have to see anyone. To send an email, you don't have to talk to anyone. You can just send it, and they'll read it on their own. The Internet has been really good for hermits.

Especially today, with the Internet, you have people who have best friends that they never met, with Facebook and Twitter and stuff. If you're really friends, it doesn't matter if I'm on the other side of the world. We'll still be friends and find a way to connect.

Social networking like Facebook or Twitter is very popular, but one thing I have found is that the more social networking tools you are using, the more alone you feel.

As the world grows and technology grows, it's getting harder to communicate and for kids to socialize.

Just because digital technology makes connecting possible doesn't mean you're actually reaching people.

When people are using their devices, it's probable that almost half are networking on social media.

With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.

Things like Facebook have made you feel as though you're connected to everybody. You've got a thousand friends on Facebook, but you don't actually talk to anybody. You're not close to anybody.

This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.

Twitter's been interesting. I'm kind of a tech geek, but I've never been a Facebook or Twitter guy. Surprisingly, I've really enjoyed Twitter because I get to connect with fans.

I'm equally guilty of using technology - I Twitter, I text people, I chat. But I think there's something strangely insidious about it that it makes us think we're closer when in fact we're not seeing each other, we're not connecting.

The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other.

Since the founding of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other mainstays of what technology writers have come to call 'the social Web' or 'Web 2.0,' a sizable portion of humanity has learned to be together while apart, sacrificing intimacy for control and spontaneity for predictability.

Social media gives one a family to share one's life with.

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

Social media companies are a gold rush today, and time will tell if they survive. I have no use for them and can't see why people waste time on them. I much prefer physical meeting with true friends, so have never used the service.

I think there are pros and cons to social networking, but on a social, personal level, it's just not for me.

Twitter is an amazing thing; it brings footballers closer to the fans because so many of them are on there. I was cynical about it to begin with, but I have been converted.