Charlie Brooker Quotes

I watch people, friends of mine, and see how they portray themselves online and I find interesting that it's kind of a hyper-real version of yourself, how you'd like to be seen, in a way.

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

The version of me on the Internet, it's not me. It's one portion.

There's more of me on Twitter than there is in real life.

We live in an age where there is a firehose of information, and there is no hierarchy of what is important and what is not. Where the truth is often fashioned through a variety of digital means. Are you your avatar? Who are you in social media? What face do you turn toward the world? How much does it have in common with who you actually are?

I'm an invention of the Internet. I'm like, the Internet went away for a few years and designed what the perfect online personality would look like and came back with me.

Online you're encouraged to perform one personality for everyone.

My theory is that we used to have several personalities, and now we're encouraged to have one online.

You have a certain identity that you present to the world on Facebook, and you have a certain identity that you present with the telephone, and they are different.

On the Web, we can be whoever we wish to be, editing the face we show to others in ways that aren't possible in physical space. We can also fine-tune the complexity and depth of our interactions and relationships.

Especially with Facebook and Instagram and Twitter, I can't tell necessarily the nitty gritty of what you're really up to. I'm just seeing the performance of all the work you're doing and the look you're giving; it's very hard to get to the center. It's very hard to see what's what.

Through technology and social media, we're able to create an identity online that shows people the face that we want them to see and rather than who they really are.

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

Twitter is about creating whatever persona you want to create and either sticking with it or changing it or evolving it or contradicting it, and I've done all that stuff.

There's no difference between my persona on Twitter and Instagram and in real life.

I'm very open in terms of sharing bits about my life, but I think it's very easy to get a distorted sense of who anyone is through social media.

There's this weird thing that happens when you contribute something to a static profile. You have to worry about how this new content fits in with your online persona that's supposed to be you. It's uncomfortable and unfortunate.

There's definitely more to me offline than what you see online. Because what I show online is what I want to show to my followers... If I showed everything I did offline, it might not align with some of my other followers around the world.

My Google existence is probably larger than a lot of people's.

Tech gives people more opportunities to be themselves in front of other people. Sometimes that's great; sometimes it's bad.

I mean, look when you meet me in real life, I'm not the person you see on the Internet, as disappointing as that is.

For the record, I don't really hate myself, but I do hate the way I portray myself online.

It's been well documented how we start to believe in our virtual or digital selves more than our real selves, but it's strange to think that human behaviour hasn't really changed at all since that legend was created.

It's hard to portray your personality in 140 characters. And so, at times, I tend to be very cynical. And I don't think that comes across very well on social media.

I think social media is a slippery slope because while you're projecting something out to people, they also project back onto you what they want to see.