Kelela Quotes

We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.

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 grew up with a computer, and many of my friends were people I met online.

I love sharing photographs and websites, I'm for all of these things. I'm for Facebook. But to say that this is sociability? We begin to define things in terms of what technology enables and technology allows.

I text and email my friends and family a lot, but that's about the extent of my high-tech-etude.

It's my fond hope that social networks such as Facebook will help users broaden their perspectives by listening to a different set of people than they encounter in their daily life. But I fear services such as Facebook may be turning us into imaginary cosmopolitans.

Tech is all about building human connections.

The Internet has introduced me to some of my closest friends.

History has shown that there needs to be some agora, or public spaces, and I think that we already live a lot of our life on a laptop, or even smaller devices that we hold in our hands.

People are not just going to bars and meeting people; they're connecting through social media.

I don't think American life requires you to be on Facebook. It does require you to have access to the Internet.

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research.

Some people really like to get into Twitter, but it's not my thing.

I don't want to get into extended conversations with people on MySpace, because there are friends I have extended conversations with every day.

I don't read blogs, I don't have MySpace, I don't have Facebook or Twitter - none of that.

I don't think much about the digital world... because I am in the analog world!

We can be incredibly disconnected in this day and age with computers and cell phones.

Anyone can use these sites - companies and colleges, teachers and students, young and old all make use of networking sites to connect with people electronically to share pictures, information, course work, and common interests.

Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I get text messages on my cell phone all day long, and it warbles to alert me that someone has sent me a message on Facebook or a reply or direct message on Twitter, but it rarely ever rings.

I'm so thankful for the Internet because actors and singers and performers now have a way to connect with their fans on a very personal level which I think is quite special.

I think the advent of the Internet gave us all a big boost, because by the time the Internet became mainstream and you could get it in your home, a lot of us were used to dealing in fan culture, writing to magazines or anything at the back of comic books.

I am no technophobe. I like being able to calibrate communication, depending on the situation - texting for the simple and immediate; email for business or when I want to put some lag time into the exchange; Twitter to promote something; Facebook to draw a crowd.

I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.

You're talking about a younger generation, Generation Y, whose interpersonal communication skills are different from Generation X. The younger generation is more comfortable saying something through a digital mechanism than even face to face.