Robert Cailliau Quotes

One day I hope to not have a Twitter, to be sick enough that I don't have to use the Internet.

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

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

Facebook and Twitter are like a horrible digital plague.

I think you've got to be careful with social media. You can get addicted to the buzz of people liking and commenting. It's exhausting.

Every once in a while I need a break from Instagram; like six hours long.

I'm done. Done with social media. Done.

I was always the last one on Facebook, Instagram - everything.

I once looked over the shoulder of a friend on Facebook and it looked like hieroglyphs to me. There's merit online, of course, but social media gets super freaky. Imagine if three generations from now, people online have forgotten what date or day of the week it is.

Whether you're a Twitter follower, a YouTube subscriber or a Facebook friend, natural social instinct is to collect people and to not kind of see them later. But unfortunately, with social media, you collect them and they're in your life, whether you really want them or not.

None of my friends don't have Facebook accounts. Op-eds and studies can highlight our decreased enthusiasm for Facebook 'til the cows come home, but it doesn't change the fact that we are chained to the beast. Voluntarily, of course.

Every day I am being told to sign up for Tumblr, Yammer, Friendfeed, Plaxo, Last.fm, ping.fm or the hot social-media tool du jour that happened to get mentioned on Mashable.com. It is like a social-media arms race. Each one of these new tools is like a cool new night club. Hot today, gone tomorrow, replaced with something else.

I didn't have any vices before the Internet. There are a lot of cracks in the day, moments where you don't know what to do next, so you have a little hole where you look at your phone. You want something that will mean you're not alone in that moment.

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

I'm a social media addict.

Well, c'mon, everyone is a Facebook addict!

[W]e spend so much time staring at our phones and screens, texting and tweeting about how busy we are, we no longer have the time to consume any primary material. We rely instead on the casual observations of our “friends” or the people we “follow” […].

Twitter and Tumblr and Vine and Instagram and Facebook and Myspace, all these things are social media tools that we were all told we had to have, and what we're realizing is that, no you don't! No you don't.

I was so against social media for such a long time, but now I can't live without it.

Twitter was actually the holdout in what has turned out to be my total purge of social media.

Don't take social media seriously. Don't buy into the hype.

Social media is so immediate and in your face that I know many people have been helped and many people who have been traumatised by their entire timeline filled with 'me too.'

Vlogging is something that's pretty entertaining. But like with a lot of social media, I just feel it's so easy to stop living your life, even though you're creating all these moments.

I don't even read social media.

I'm hopelessly addicted to Instagram.