Jameela Jamil Quotes

I absolutely should be on social media, and I think every person who's an influencer should be, and should be doing good things.

I'm a Twitter addict. Jose Andres is a serial tweeter. It's funny to see which chefs have embraced it, and the different paths they take.

I don't keep up with Twitter all day long.

On a certain day, I will tweet five times, and then I'll go four days without tweeting at all. It really depends on what time allows. Twitter, priority-wise, has to come after the work is done.

I'm a very private person, so I didn't like this idea of tweeting about me. And then I realized, 'Oh, this is actually a brilliant device in terms of interacting with the fans.'

It's made it easier to communicate important issues, but I wonder if connecting with millions of people online is ever as arresting to someone's attention as one man standing and screaming in front of City Hall.

As a writer and sometime activist who needs to promote my books and articles and occasionally rally people to one cause or another, I found Facebook fast and convenient. Though I never really used it to socialize, I figured it was OK to let other people do that, and I benefited from their behavior.

My kids tell me to Instagram, so I do that. I have a few thousand followers.

I'm kind of new to Twitter. I'm about one year in, so I'm a little late to the party.

I probably tweet every other day, which I know isn't half as much as some people.

Me talking about political issues on a social platform was kind of an accident. It's something that's a part of my everyday - it's super central to who I am as a person.

Everyone thinks that I have an Instagram account for my dog, but I did not make that. It's a fan!

What's the good of Twitter if you can't tweet cute... Twitter's so silly. I tweet about my rabbit a lot.

We're all guilty of slacktivism, or of feeling like a savior for taking two seconds of your day to think about someone else.

It's not about how much screen time I have, what matters is reaching out to a huge number of people.

Live what you support online; do things.

I try to tweet, but I still haven't gotten into the rhythm as much as some people who have, like, 20,000 tweets. There are some great comedians on there, so you get some pretty funny hot takes and bits.

I used to share my everyday life on the first social media platforms, and I had a pretty big following.

I think social media has reinvigorated people's enthusiasm to be active and to engage.

If me believing helping others should come before Instagram posts is 'stupid'... you got me right.

I decided to use my social media to inspire changes in the younger population.

In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether.

The way to get people civically engaged, not just during the election but throughout the year, is to tap into Facebook and let them do it with their friends.

I have a twitter, but I try to not talk about things like, "Oh, I had a grapefruit this morning and it was delicious," because, who cares? But, I think it can serve as a platform for talking about things that matter to me, like the organizations that I work with. As pretentious as that sounds, it is true. You can really make a difference, if you can create a following and actually represent who you are, as opposed to how people want to portray you. But, I don't know what the balance is.

Social media is great because you can get information out there quick or you can use it as a ministry tool, but when you're on it all the time and you're not spending time with people and you're not sitting there looking at someone in the eyes and asking, "How are you doing?" that's when it's out of balance.