Barbara Park Quotes

I don't read things that people say about me online. They write nasty things just to mess with you. I don't need that in my life.

At a certain point, you try to avoid reading feedback or blogs because there's always the risk of reading some sort of negative stuff that can be hard to hear.

Whatever comedian says he doesn't read comments, I never believe him, because we all have the same pathological problem to see what people think of us, and it sucks, because you try not to take it personally, and people are monsters and idiots.

I tend to not only read reviews, but also every little stupid thing online. It's a very bad idea, and there's a lot of angry people in the world. And it's weird to absorb all that weirdness.

I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web and check out what people are saying about them. Yes, you're bound to find things that will delight you - but you also find things that will make you brood and feel bad about yourself. Why would you intentionally invite that into your life?

I stay off the Internet, because I'm very sensitive to commentary. There could be 10 comments of 'Fabulous job!' and one 'She's horrible!' and it completely throws me.

Half the time, people will be abusing me on Twitter, and half the time, somebody will be praising me. So either it will go to my head, or I will take it to my heart. So better I stay away from it.

I don't read the comments people write about me - it's not worth it.

I've tried to stop reading comments online because if you believe everything, it makes you feel like rubbish.

I think it is very important to not be too much on social media. You have a lot of positive comments but also negative ones, and at the end of the day, that shouldn't affect you, but it is much more important not to read it so you just don't know.

I can feel so bad about myself, especially if I start to pay attention to the kinds of stupid comments around the Internet.

And if you get caught up in combing the Internet for what people think of you or how people perceive you, I think that's a slippery slope.

I'm not an idiot; I try not to look, but I see what people say about me on Facebook. I see other things written. But I don't care.

I've had countless reviews sort that have made me cry. It's funny, it doesn't ever get better either; you can't turn your ears off.

Everybody's entitled to their opinions, but I don't understand why we have to saturate social media with all the negative stuff.

I'm young, and I'm a girl, so, when I post something, I want to see what people are saying or what they think of my photos. I've found it better if you don't read anything and you just always stay off that track.

If I read every comment on my YouTube videos, I'd go crazy with people that are saying negative things.

Quite honestly, I'm the kind of person to get my feelings hurt over something somebody said on Twitter.

When people write things on the Internet about me that aren't true, it's tough to deal with. Even if you're the most mellow person in the world, stuff like that bothers you eventually.

I never knew how ugly and how stupid I was until, you know, we had Twitter.

There are things that people say that hurt my feelings or whatever, especially with social media right now. It can be the most amazing thing, and it can also be the most negative and detrimental thing.

The best advice I received came late, and it's this: Don't read the comments section of any story that mentions you!

People can be too harsh, especially with social media. It brings a person down.

People think that celebrities are this untouchable thing, and they forget that we're people with emotions and feelings. They don't realize that it affects us when they comment on pictures on Instagram or Twitter, saying mean things, just as it would affect anybody.

I get too upset by online criticism.