Joel Stein Quotes

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

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

People have presences, both online and in real life. You can choose to show everything, meaning all sides of you, or you can choose to be selective.

I don't see such a huge difference between online and 'in real life'. I think it has now become one and the same.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

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

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.

Online, you play at being yourself.

I use Twitter to be my best self: fun, dateable. I don't get paranoid with Twitter, only in real life. I write so I feel comfortable, not speaking.

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

Just us as people, we're different around different people and in different environments.

I know, for a fact, that I'm a very different person on my own than I am with someone else. We are different with each other. These things are constantly adjusted. And that's true of humans. That's not just true of famous people.

You could probably prove, by judicious use of logarithms and congruent triangles, that real life is a lot more like soap opera than most people will admit.

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.

There is this inherent human instinct that the usual way you control trolling is you force people to use their real identities. So there's less trolling on Facebook, for example.

I always made up my own acts; built them out of my knowledge and observation of real life. I'd had wonderful opportunities to study people; and every time I went out on the stage I tried to show the audience some bit of true human nature.

I think I'm a different person with different people.

How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say 'No' at the same time, it sounds like neighing - yet people are perpetually doing it in novels. If they did it in real life they would be locked up.

All that land is filled with people, every one of them different, and the things they do to each other matter.

I think I have learned to really get out of the mathematical side of myself that looks at story and story structure and go with, "Okay, well, what would people do in real life?"

Online is online. It's a whole other world. It's not actually real life.

If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.

Characters on stage, like people in what we refer to as "real life," do not speak to reveal themselves. They do not speak to conceal themselves. They speak to get whatever it is that they want. It is the only reason they speak.

In the age of social media and dating apps, so many people are able to hide behind their Instagram page or their Raya page or Facebook.