Mikko Hypponen Quotes

I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.

I have done a pretty good job of partitioning my life digitally, posting utterances and stories that I'm happy to share with anyone on Twitter, leaving a few sparse comments and 'Likes' on Facebook (I'm not a huge user of the service, I'll be honest), and sending any number of photos to thousands of 'followers' on Instagram and Tumblr.

Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever.

People know everything about everybody now.

If you want to post pictures of yourself online, that's your decision, but you should understand the implications.

People don't have the opportunity to be larger than life anymore - they're afraid of seeing it on the Internet.

Me tweeting sometimes, it's like, I don't even remember what I say. It's just coming off how it's coming off.

I think, having grown up with the Internet, things like trolls and the world of having an online life as well as a physical one, it's something I've grown up with.

If you don't want the world to see something you're sending, stop and think before you put it out there.

I search my name on Tumblr more than I Google myself, and I Google myself every day.

Even though I have Twitter, I only use it to say, 'Oh, this is coming out.' I would never voice anything about me, really.

Sometimes I Google myself just to see what people are saying. But we all do that. If someone tells you that they don't, then they are lying.

Some people bare their entire life on the Internet. There are politicians and actors, who like that. But there are some who don't want to do that.

I just love social media. I love that you can create your own image of yourself.

If YouTube had existed in 1999, I wouldn't have had a show. And if YouTube had existed in 1999, I wouldn't have wanted to do the show, because I couldn't imagine clips from it following me a decade later.

Reputations can be built, attacked, and destroyed on social media. It's a huge game-changer - instantaneously emboldening adversaries and shortening the ride for any corporate or personal brand.

I feel like every time I tweeted something that was a little opinionated, or every time I posted something on Tumblr that seemed a little private, it's all of a sudden making news relationship-wise.

As funny as some photos can be, think twice about allowing yourself to be tagged in questionable photos.

I tell young people all the time, and now I'm telling anyone, no matter what your age: You can't take back the stuff you put out there on Twitter and Facebook, even e-mails.

Having Twitter on your phone is like being with a journalist that hates you 24 hours a day. Anything you say on that can be spun. Truly, that's what you have to think of it as.

You need to be aware of what you're putting on social media and what you're talking about.

I think if you want to engage in social media, you must take the good with the bad.

I don't really pay attention to much online.

All of us in the modern world are constructing our identities, largely through social media, for a larger audience.

I chose to share my life online, so I can't really complain about it. There's not much that's off limits.