Susan Orlean Quotes

I feel like with the whole Internet era, people can be so judgmental and evil online.

It's such a thing now, people making fun of other people on the Internet.

There's a reason why bullying takes such a strong form online. People don't have to push back as much as they would in real life.

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.

A little tantrum in real life seems so much bigger online.

You know, it's really strange now with the Internet, with everyone having an unsolicited, anonymous opinion.

I have a love-hate relationship with Twitter. There are moments I feel like 99 percent of the people who write stuff are the sweetest people, and then one crazy guy or girl spoils the whole thing.

The Internet is for haters. Everyone wants to knock somebody down, but it's cool.

Social media has created a legion of social delinquents, billions of people speaking not their minds but their spleens, venting everything from the gum-cracking snark befitting a hair-twisting mallrat to the froth-flecked rage of a bell tower marksman.

The internet is the realm of the coward. These are all people who are all sound and no fury.

I honestly believe that people sit behind their computers and just get really brave.

At the end of the day, the Internet is full of mean people. Who are these people in their everyday life? I pray for them.

I'm not so radical about Twitter, but I think it's sometimes dangerous if you think that Twitter is real life.

I feel everybody gets trolled. There is no one who hasn't got trolled on social media. I guess trolling has become norm of social media where people enjoy belittling everybody.

The Internet is a seemingly unreal environment where we think we are anonymous. It's a potentially provocative place. As a result, we may not behave the way we would in the real world. Some of us are drawn into what could become a dangerous situation.

We're all trapped in the digital world. It's filled with cat videos, and you have to dodge comments about how much you stink.

People feel emboldened to say things on the Internet they wouldn't in person.

There's always going to be a tradeoff between trolling and anonymity, and I guess that's the way life will be. And you can manage it, but you can't cure it.

When I used to put videos on MySpace, there'd always be someone posting something nasty. To those people, I'd send friend requests, and invariably, they accepted them.

People say a lot of mess about celebrities. In the social media world, celebrities are able to go online and see nice things and horrible things written about them - but these people on the Internet wouldn't have the guts to say it to their face.

When you start personally attacking people on Twitter, it's like, come on, dude.

I don't read things that people say about me online. They write nasty things just to mess with you. I don't need that in my life.

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.

The Internet is a blessing and a curse. I mean, it's a place where lots of people can express themselves, which is amazing, but it's a place where a lot of people can express themselves that probably should keep those expressions to themselves.

I'd read a lot about the psychology around rejection and insecurity, and I had noticed that when people feel insecure or rejected, they behave aggressively, erratically. Especially when you can hide behind a screen name or a profile picture.