Robert Del Naja Quotes

Online, you play at being yourself.

I don't see such a huge difference between online and 'in real life'. I think it has now become one and the same.

We live in an age where there is a firehose of information, and there is no hierarchy of what is important and what is not. Where the truth is often fashioned through a variety of digital means. Are you your avatar? Who are you in social media? What face do you turn toward the world? How much does it have in common with who you actually are?

I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before.

Approximating authenticity online is not such a tall order. In fact, it may be the very least we can do.

I mean, look when you meet me in real life, I'm not the person you see on the Internet, as disappointing as that is.

The version of me on the Internet, it's not me. It's one portion.

For the record, I don't really hate myself, but I do hate the way I portray myself online.

I grew up on Facebook; it's a different realm I live in. For some people, this is inauthentic, but for me, it's all I know.

The way people express themselves online, that's also how they express themselves in the real world.

Online you're encouraged to perform one personality for everyone.

My theory is that we used to have several personalities, and now we're encouraged to have one online.

All the blogs, Facebook, Twitter are made by people who want to show their own private affairs at the price of making fakes, to try to appear such as they are not, to construct another personality, which is a veritable loss of identity.

Our lives look a lot more interesting when they’re filtered through the sexy Facebook interface. We star in our own movies, we photograph ourselves incessantly, we click the mouse and a machine confirms our sense of mastery.

My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.

In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.

My last novel, 'The Keep,' was very explicitly technological, about the quality of living in a state constantly surrounded by disembodied presences, and I was thinking very much about the online experience.

We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.

I Googled myself, and I saw some nice things and some not-so-nice things. I've learned that that stuff isn't real, and it doesn't exist unless you look at it.

The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.

Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so.

When I get online, there's this cycle of anxiety and narcissism that takes over, which is the part of me that I like the least.

I laugh at stuff like Snapchat thinking it can change the world.

Do you remember when Fabio got hit in the face with a pigeon on the roller coaster, and it broke his nose? Sometimes I feel like I'm the pigeon, and the Internet is Fabio's face. Actually, I don't know if I'm the pigeon, or I'm Fabio's face. Depends on the day, I guess.

Our mobile devices are so powerful that they don't just change what we do, they're changing who we are.