Emily Berrington Quotes

I'm hardly a smartphone addict. I rarely look at social media.

I can't do Twitter or Facebook, mostly because I feel like I'm the type of person who has to regiment the amount of time I spend doing certain things or I'll just wade in it, and then I'll never come out.

I try not to live my life on my phone or my social media pages.

People can live without a Facebook account: my 13-year-old daughter has cancelled her account because it's not cool anymore.

It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise.

Entire books are being written about the distractions of social media. I don't believe media compel distraction, but I think it's clear that they afford it.

The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.

I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

Social media can be so addictive.

I find that I have to just kind of avoid the Internet as much as possible. And even more so, when I go and look at it, I remember why I should be avoiding it.

I'll scroll through Instagram, but I have to take Internet breaks.

I really wish that I was, like, strong enough to not go online.

Guys should not be allowed to use the Internet all day long. So sad.

I don't have a Twitter or a Facebook, but that doesn't mean I'm any more productive than the rest of the world.

I try to ignore the Internet. It's an evil, evil place.

Kids have so much screen time, and it's a concern. I know how overloaded I can feel sometimes.

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.

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

I don't let myself 'surf' on the Web, or I would probably drown.

To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shortening attention spans, the physical cost of sedentary 'surfing' and the potential for coarsening discourse as millions of web pages compete for attention by appealing to our base instincts.

I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.'

Technology is cool, but you've got to use it as opposed to letting it use you.

I sound like an old man when I talk about the Internet, but I am actually worried about what it's doing to our brains and our sense of connection.

It is true that a lot of people are easily distracted online. As a result, too many of us have given up on digital audiences for ambitious work, and this is a mistake.

I try to stay off Twitter.