Jaboukie Young-White Quotes

In the black-and-white world of a girl in her late teens, I thought of things like Internet etiquette as obvious, rule-bound institutions. Facebook was Facebook, texts were texts, emails were emails, chats were chats, webcamming was webcamming, phone calls were phone calls.

I don’t tweet for a very simple reason, which is that I drink.

Some people really like to get into Twitter, but it's not my thing.

I'm a Twitter addict. Jose Andres is a serial tweeter. It's funny to see which chefs have embraced it, and the different paths they take.

I don't keep up with Twitter all day long.

First, I thought Twitter was some kind of hybrid car being developed by Government Motors. Then I thought it was a new bite-size snack combining what's best of the Frito and the Cheeto. Then I found out it was me. On a laptop. At the U.S. Open. Having fun.

If I see what you're up to on Facebook but I don't see your updates on Flickr, I'll still care about Facebook.

I don't know what's hipper: to Facebook or to Twitter. I just know for me, personally, discretion never went out of style.

I have a Twitter, but I'm not a tweeter... if that really makes sense.

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.

Sometimes I'll write a tweet that I'll just be like, 'Why do I have to say this to all of these people?' It's like writing a Facebook status: it's the same. I view tweeting as like writing a Facebook status. Remember when we used to write statuses?

I'm rubbish at Twitter.

I'm the worst tweeter ever. I don't know what I'm doing. I really don't.

My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.

I'm not on Twitter.

Tweeting? It's one of the silliest things ever.

When I first came out there was no such thing as Twitter or Facebook. And the blogs! Like, what is that?

I don't even want to be on Twitter. I think it's abhorrent, people sending messages to say they're doing the washing-up or whatever.

I met some fans who said, 'Please start Twittering!' They even walked me through it, but I'm terrible at it. I'm so bad at keeping it up. I forget how to use it. And I'm not very savvy: I try to send a private message, and it goes out to everybody.

It only takes 140 characters to toss one's character out the window.

I would be horrible at Twitter. I wouldn't know the answer to fans' questions half the time - and the patience involved! I couldn't imagine. I did have a Twitter account that I tried for a couple days, but found I had nothing to say.

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.

MySpace is an addiction.

Basically, I don't like to tweet stuff about my life. I only like to tweet jokes.

I rarely tweet unless I'm talking about 'The Bachelor.' I have a love/hate relationship with Instagram, though - it's like a rigid parent. It's much more restrictive with what can be posted, but you can write a full paragraph, post a video - it changes the game a little bit.