Lupe Fiasco Quotes

I think we are all coming to realize the web in all its manifestations is a sucking time hole.

The Internet is a big distraction.

I'm a social media addict.

I don't have any of the modern electronics at all. I know the Internet would be a distraction. I would see things that interested me and never get back to writing.

Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow.

Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.

I didn't have any vices before the Internet. There are a lot of cracks in the day, moments where you don't know what to do next, so you have a little hole where you look at your phone. You want something that will mean you're not alone in that moment.

I'm an Internet junkie.

Maybe some day they'll find me behind the computer, just bones and cobwebs.

Hi, my name is Alexandra, and I'm a netaholic.

The Internet has become my enabler. It keeps me from stillness and discomfort, and this keeps me from growing.

Social media can be so addictive.

It's the smartphone that has turned adults and children alike into tech-addicted zombies, dumbly swiping and jabbing at their screens, oblivious to the world around them.

I'd like to pretend to be all Olympian and above it, as if this is a phenomenon I'm observing from a great height, nothing to do with my own behavior at all - but the fact is I'm absolutely one of those people in the cafe staring at my phone.

Some people are on their darn computers all day long.

If I got involved with the chat rooms and Facebook and everything - I would probably never leave. That's why I don't do it. I literally don't do it. At all.

I really do force myself to not be fully engaged with all the technology at once, just because I have an addictive personality and I get too into it.

Almost every time I go to the ocean, I think about throwing my phone right into it. Sometimes, you pull that thing out of your pocket, you look at it, and you're like, 'What was I just going to do with this? Was I going to take a note? Was I going to check my email? Was I going to take a picture?'

I'm hopelessly addicted to Instagram.

Our attention spans have been reduced by the immediate gratification provided by smartphones and social media.

The iPad is becoming the babysitter… Silicon Valley programs these things to be addictive.

I'll go out to eat and have a really good lunch and try to shut the phone off, but I can't, really, because the social media stuff will start happening.

Everyone has a really short attention span nowadays with social media, our phones. Even me - I can't go without touching my phone every five minutes.

When people talk about how the Internet has changed the way we travel, they typically lament the way our compulsion to document removes us, somehow, from the actual experience.

You look out on the street, and everyone has their heads in their phones. Nobody's really looking up at the sky or the buildings and taking the day in. I try to be conscious of it, but everybody falls prey to it.