Jenna Wortham Quotes

Keeping a secret in the social media age often is impossible.

A person has to keep something to herself or you're life is just a layout in a magazine.

Nothing we do is ever going unnoticed. It's on CCTV cameras, it's on iphones, it's everywhere.

After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?

Of course, a secret is no good if it doesn't need to be a secret.

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.

I don't tell many people my last name.

The digitally native generation has no idea what has been lost to the freedom of intimacy that has no fear of being recorded.

We have lost the idea that something can be secret because it is valuable, not because it's shameful. If you share everything with everybody, what have you got for yourself? I tweet and I blog, but I save a lot for myself. Not because I am ashamed.

My age and my phone number are both unlisted.

I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.

I've grown up knowing that you put as much of your private life out there as you feel comfortable with.

More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.

I didn't use to think anything was worth keeping private. Now I do.

I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.

Nothing on paper; paper can be lost or stolen or simply inherited by the wrong people; if you want to keep something secret, don't write it down.

All persons have the right to privacy and to intimacy.

I’ve never taken a selfie. In my whole life, I don’t always love cameras in phones. There are time it feels very intrusive, especially when I’m with my children.

Most people want the convenience of the Internet far more than they want the private spaces that older forms of communication protected.

Our focus remains on delivering the promise of WhatsApp far and wide so that people around the world have the freedom to speak their mind without fear.

I don't know that I want to share all my most intimate secrets.

We do everything we can, obviously, to keep as private a life as possible.

I won't even let anyone in my house. I'm a private person.

I think there are definitely a lot of subjects I don't share with people, but I'm not sure where that border is.