Thomas Middleditch Quotes

I'm too old to understand Snapchat.

My generation was born to work with social media - it's a natural part of our communication with the world.

While the digital age has done so much to improve our world, it has dramatically changed our social structure, often further isolating us from each other.

You're talking about a younger generation, Generation Y, whose interpersonal communication skills are different from Generation X. The younger generation is more comfortable saying something through a digital mechanism than even face to face.

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.

My two daughters live on Facebook, and social media is their mode of communication.

We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.

Social media is about friending someone so they'll invite you to a party or get you a job. If that's the work, Snapchat is the playground.

I can't stand Snapchat, but that will be extinct before it is relevant.

People don't know what to do when writing a story with teens that takes place now - they think you have to make a bunch of references to Facebook.

I first started using social media when I was 12 or something - not publicly; I had private accounts.

I actually like social media, and I recognize what modern technology serves.

Like with MySpace and everything, my dad didn't even know what that was. And then all of a sudden, Twitter came around and he was taking pictures of my new tattoos and posting them and I was like, what's going on? I've never seen this happen before!

People are not just going to bars and meeting people; they're connecting through social media.

It's super cool becoming friends with people from other countries because you can get their Snapchat and talk to them.

A lot has changed due to the rise of smartphones and the proliferation of social media: today, visual content is the language of our time.

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.

It's a new era with regard to social media. It's just something that we have to adapt to and accept.

In our society, social media's so big in our lives. It's all over the place.

I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research.

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.

Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it's a new language.

I don't read blogs, I don't have MySpace, I don't have Facebook or Twitter - none of that.

The use of the Internet, the use of Twitter, the way protest movements developed... This is a different world.