Jon Taffer Quotes

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.

Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.

We didn't need the Internet for Nazi Germany to happen. But I feel like there's this lack of humanity because of it.

I get really scared about how the Internet is shifting and changing everyone's minds, and the way we see ourselves and interact online. Everything is so diluted now.

I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social.

It seems there is no area in our culture that is not touched, changed, even swallowed by the Internet. It's both medium and message, mass and personal, social and solitary.

Our generation's grown up with the Internet, so it's an extension of our social lives; it's an extension of us. It makes perfect sense for me to use that medium.

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. And so many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old.

I feel sort of really aware of how the... online cyber world has begun to take over reality.

The Internet is especially adept at compressing humanity and making it easy to forget there are people behind tweets, posts, and memes.

Social media has changed our lives forever. Some continue to reject social media, refusing to become one of the sheep, but you just can't avoid it.

It is the Internet that changes: the Internet is not just a language; it modifies relationships, the way we look at the world.

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

Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.

When you look at things like social media, that's an immensely powerful tool that I'm all in favor of. I think it's amazing. It's a powerful tool, and it's one that we're, as a species, still grappling with learning to use. It's like we've grown an extra tail and we inadvertently lash out and knock over all of the furniture.

I don't think much about the digital world... because I am in the analog world!

I went from rotary phone to Twitter. And was appalled at the notion.

We can be incredibly disconnected in this day and age with computers and cell phones.

I think the advent of the Internet gave us all a big boost, because by the time the Internet became mainstream and you could get it in your home, a lot of us were used to dealing in fan culture, writing to magazines or anything at the back of comic books.

I am no technophobe. I like being able to calibrate communication, depending on the situation - texting for the simple and immediate; email for business or when I want to put some lag time into the exchange; Twitter to promote something; Facebook to draw a crowd.

I think that new communications are wonderful and I am delighted to be a part of the Internet generation.

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.

It's traumatic to meditate on the availability of information through the Internet, or the way we perceive the world as a result. People don't experience things totally or viscerally anymore. It's all through representation, be it a record on YouTube or a post on a blog.

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

Text messaging is just the most recent focus of people's anxiety; what people are really worried about is a new generation gaining control of what they see as their language.