M. Shadows Quotes

A lot of people use social media to share mundane things or for self-glorification. I try to use it to share interesting things with people.

If I was on Twitter, I'd probably get in trouble pretty quickly.

The Internet is especially adept at compressing humanity and making it easy to forget there are people behind tweets, posts, and memes.

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

My dad finds Twitter just infinitely unrelatable. He's like, 'Why would I want to tell anybody what I had for a snack, it's private?!' And I'm like, 'Why would you even have a snack if you didn't tell anybody? Why bother eating?'

Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - what they're thinking about, what they're doing, what they're looking at - by paying attention to the small stray status messages that people are putting online.

A lot of people are living their lives online in much more public ways with Facebook and Twitter.

There are a lot of pros and cons about social media; it's just how you choose to handle it and how you have to be prepared for the negatives as well.

In the Digital Age, recorders also tend to be oversharers, and with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest, they can do so on a grand scale.

I've stayed away from Twitter for a long time because I sort of didn't trust myself with such an intimate but very public way of relating to the world, but I feel like I've studied it enough.

We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that.

I was on Facebook. I'm not anymore, but my sister always sends pictures to a page. I'm sure you can find a Bradley Cooper there.

Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.

I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.

Twitter is so short, it's safe. I don't want my bosses to be like, 'Hey, your script is due and we saw you wrote four blog pages.'

Twitter is worth it if you like tweeting. Same is true of Facebook. Or Pinterest. Nothing wrong with having a social presence.

If you look at my Twitter feed it is 99% links, but 1% is me responding and 1% of a big number is a big number.

People reveal so much of their mental processes online, simply because the psychological effect of anonymity just means that a whole raft of inhibitions are left alone when people log on.

Tweeting is the go-to medium for the show-off and the shyster.

I'm not on Twitter, but I am on Instagram and follow Lena Dunham and Usher.

Twitter was like a poem. It was rich, real and spontaneous. It really fit my style. In a year and a half, I tweeted 60,000 tweets, over 100,000 words. I spent a minimum eight hours a day on it, sometimes 24 hours.

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

I don't have an Instagram or anything like that. I have Twitter for work and also to read my news.

Internet is exemplary for me. I do not want to have the feeling of writing 'for eternity,' so to speak. The fleetingness of the Internet has therefore become very attractive to me.

I first started using social media when I was 12 or something - not publicly; I had private accounts.