Mary Pilon Quotes

Social media enables us to talk about issues, shine a light on problems, and raise awareness of struggles that might have gone unnoticed. On the flipside, it also allows for a lot of noise and distractions. Sometimes it doesn't create the best environment for a healthy discussion and can lead to trolling.

The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.

We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters.

Facebook Algorithms have got us all screwed up, where we only listen and talk to people with the same views as us, and I think it's not helping us as a culture to grow.

We get caught in our little silos and end up working against ourselves. And I think social media culture really encourages that, because you're really just shouting into a void hoping someone picks up on what you're saying.

I had to turn off my Twitter notifications for a while as I got a small minority of people sending me some abusive tweets.

Trolls live in their own pathetic bubble, and it's called Twitter.

Twitter is the Devil's playground.

There are people I've blocked for a long time who will still respond to every single person that replies positively to me on Twitter. I have quite a few cyber-stalkers like that.

Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and meanness and profanity and wrong information screamed at me as gospel, I'll get in a time machine and spend Christmas with my family in 1977.

There were websites erected to figure out how to kill Alanis. I just do not need to see this; it's not good for anybody.

Twitter can be great and very bad.

I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.

The Internet is a bastion of negativity, and we get to sit there and voice our cute, little, important opinions.

When I post anything at all on Instagram or Twitter, I get hundreds and hundreds of 'shut up' after I say anything. But it's all out of love.

The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.

It's very much the currency of discourse on social media where political disagreements very quickly become very personalised.

The country would be a lot better off if we stopped having comment sections. And if we got rid of Twitter.

Research shows that if people are talking and listening to like-minded others, they become more dogmatic, more unified, and more extreme. Personalized Facebook experiences are a breeding ground for misunderstanding and miscommunication across political lines and, ultimately, for extremism.

I've had particularly unpleasant stuff, and it has been reported that I've had death threats. Twitter and Facebook give people who have always been out there a platform from which to hurl abuse, and all I can do is try to block it out and remind myself that tweets are transient and get lost in the ether after a few moments.

Social media is so immediate and in your face that I know many people have been helped and many people who have been traumatised by their entire timeline filled with 'me too.'

Social media has exacerbated a trend whereby people speak with complete authority on every subject, regardless of how informed they are.

With social media, there is a fashion that we speak louder than we think. It has just become a platform where people just judge and spread anger and hate.

I am often invited to speak at colleges, and whenever I do Q and A's, a question that inevitably comes up is, 'How do you put up with the blogosphere?' It's a valid question, and I don't really know what answer to give. The truth is that I don't know what to do.

I still strongly feel that a lot of people who participated in Gamergate, who participated in this sort of thing, are doing so because they go into it with - they'll believe the version of events that fits their world view.