Parker Conrad Quotes

I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.

People go on Snapchat - I don't understand it. It's the first app I felt, 'Oh no, I'm out of touch with burgeoning technology. I'm not 16!'

I realize that Facebook today is a global success with more than 600 million users worldwide. But I also understand, maybe a bit sadly, that it is not for me. Perhaps it is because I am a bit too old? Or perhaps it is because I am more interested in exploring the epic text, which I have lived with for all my life.

For an older generation of employees, social media often remains misunderstood and underutilized.

Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.

I mean, my mom knows Google, but she doesn't know MySpace.

There are a lot of people in D.C. who have never been on Twitter or Facebook and don't get what's happening.

My generation was born to work with social media - it's a natural part of our communication with the world.

I'm not on Twitter or any of that rubbish. I'm an old man.

Like with MySpace and everything, my dad didn't even know what that was. And then all of a sudden, Twitter came around and he was taking pictures of my new tattoos and posting them and I was like, what's going on? I've never seen this happen before!

In the black-and-white world of a girl in her late teens, I thought of things like Internet etiquette as obvious, rule-bound institutions. Facebook was Facebook, texts were texts, emails were emails, chats were chats, webcamming was webcamming, phone calls were phone calls.

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.

That MySpace is the story of the year. Everyone but my mother is on it.

There's a kind of immediacy that comes with being constantly connected that I don't really relate to in my generation.

I have two daughters, and they grew up and wanted to get into Instagram, and I didn't know anything about social media. I started it to learn about what they were starting to do and how they communicate with their friends. I opened an account. Very fast, in a few hours, I realized that I actually liked it.

I've never sent an email in my life. My kids laugh. I often hand the phone to them and say, 'Can you text this message to somebody.' I don't even have a computer on my desk.

My old mother, she has no idea what's going on in this world.

I don't have social media, and I'm not, I guess, that adept at being on the Internet.

The vast majority of Americans perform sophisticated digital tasks on a daily basis. Grandmas and grandpas e-mail digital photos of their cruise trip and IM their kids in school. So a politician admitting that he or she can't bother to learn those things indicates a horse-and-buggy mentality.

I'm not on any social media; I don't even know what things are. I'm so behind the times.

I am of the bridge generation that remembers life before social media permeated everything but cannot imagine life without it now.

People don't know what to do when writing a story with teens that takes place now - they think you have to make a bunch of references to Facebook.

I feel like an old person. I feel like, 'What is this technology?' I think there's some seven-year-olds who are more advanced than I am right now.

I'm late, right? I'm always late to every social media thing. I noticed my friends all did Snapchat, and, like, a lot of celebrities, so I was like, 'Oh OK... Maybe I need to get Snapchat.'