Tyler Oakley Quotes

I'm trying to get to a point where I tell people, if you want to get in touch with me, please don't rely on email. I don't want to be a slave to it.

I turned off my Google alerts in 2009 as I learnt that following yourself on the Internet very quickly becomes unhealthy.

Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night.

For days on end, I avoid the Web, never logging in until about two or three, after I've written all morning. On a good week, I don't go online till after Wednesday, so four or five days might lapse without my checking e-mail.

It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise.

I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it.

When you work online, staying on the Internet more than you need to feels like being at the office after hours.

I get on social media sometimes. I think it's good to find a balance and to be able to put your phone down.

I try to stay away from the Internet.

You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.

Give yourself time to digitally detox from your constantly connected life, and keep your phone away from your bed.

I don't like the idea of being connected to the world all the time. One should have space and time for oneself.

After a Sunday night game, what I do is I usually wait like a day and a half before going on Twitter.

The biggest thing I try to do is to unplug and give myself time away from social media and the Internet.

I really wish that I was, like, strong enough to not go online.

In this media-drenched, multitasking, always-on age, many of us have forgotten how to unplug and immerse ourselves completely in the moment. We have forgotten how to slow down. Not surprisingly, this fast-forward culture is taking a toll on everything from our diet and health to our work and the environment.

I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.

I probably use email the most. I dunno if that counts as an app. I try to stay off my electronics as much as possible. Real life is happening all around you; you're better off just being a part of it.

I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's largely because I spend my working life staring at a screen and hitting a keyboard, I am trying to cut down on that, not increase it.

When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.

I used to go on all these blogs and all these websites which I really don't like to go and read about at all, and I couldn't care less anymore.

To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shortening attention spans, the physical cost of sedentary 'surfing' and the potential for coarsening discourse as millions of web pages compete for attention by appealing to our base instincts.

While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.

I'm still struggling with whether I might want to get off the Internet. More and more people I know have. Daniel Day Lewis doesn't do the Internet at all, and I noticed he had many more books open around his house.