Jan Chipchase 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.

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

My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.

Digital technology is both arousing and distancing. We don't look at the users on the other side as people. They aren't - they're just usernames, Facebook photos and Twitter handles.

We all think we are connected to the world now, but we are not talking to our neighbours any more.

I don't keep up with Twitter all day long.

If I see what you're up to on Facebook but I don't see your updates on Flickr, I'll still care about Facebook.

I would argue heavily that the time that has been allocated to social used to come from television, and people are benefitting from it. People who are saying, 'Aw, you're spending all your time on Facebook, or all your time on Twitter,' I'd like to understand what the person used to do with that time.

I don't follow anything online. I am rather slow on that side.

The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.

Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways.

I curate my life in a way. It's always playing on my mind, kind of a love-hate relationship. I'm not one of those people who's, like, 'I wish Facebook wasn't around,' because, you know, it is what it is.

I don't do Facebook and I don't do Twitter, and already I notice that, with some of my friends, there's a whole sphere of conversation that I'm completely on the outside of, and that's my choice. But, to a greater extent, that's what the whole of life is like.

With the Internet, we can communicate instantly across the globe, but the net also makes it possible for us to shrink ever further into our own skins - a state of being that neither suits the human temperament nor provides ground for further growth.

Twitter is worth it if you like tweeting. Same is true of Facebook. Or Pinterest. Nothing wrong with having a social presence.

We have to wonder whether digital technology, rather than making it easier to communicate, is actually doing the opposite. We now sit alone at a keyboard, firing off zeros and ones into the ether. Offices are silent.

Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.

Facebook has woven itself into the fabric of our lives and the foundation of the Internet. I think everything will be redefined because people are using their real identities on the Internet.

I wake up and check my Instagram to see what I missed out on last night. Then I check my Twitter. Then I check my Tumblr.

I'm such a grandma. I don't tweet; I don't have a Facebook page.

On a good day, I usually tweet 50 to 100 times.

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 had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.

My colleagues went on the Internet, went on Facebook, and they found it helpful, and they persuaded me that I should try, so I did. It's quite fun provided you keep it in balance and... from time to time slip in a serious message.

Social media affords me an opportunity to interact with fans on a daily basis, not just for a few seconds apiece at a science-fiction convention.