Greg Gutfeld Quotes

I am of the bridge generation that remembers life before social media permeated everything but cannot imagine life without it now.

Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary.

I would hate to be in high school now. Psychologists talk about the 'imaginary audience' that teens seem to feel they have around them and that makes them think they have to keep up their image all the time. Now with Facebook and MySpace and 24/7 online access, that imaginary audience has become real.

Obviously social media has had a massive impact on the fame game, but not in a positive way. But it can be for some.

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.

I think social media has taken over for our generation. It's a big part of our lives, and it's kind of sad.

Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.

As a young adult, we all go through things now on social media. It's a part of our everyday lives.

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.

Social media is incredible: it creates a community that I'm really proud to be a part of, but it also creates illusions and a false reality, and it's difficult to grow up with that.

I enjoy social media, but I don't take it as gospel. Yes, it can make me feel insecure if I see my peers doing more than me. You have to remind yourself it's a marketing tool, a facade, but that's easier when you are older.

When you're young and search your name on Twitter to see what everyone is saying about you, which everyone does when you're young… it was one of those things I had to get on with.

It's a personal thing whether one wants to be on social media or not.

It's even rougher for the kids today because they have social media - it's as if they're being interviewed every moment of the day even when they're just interviewing themselves, putting out a tweet or an Instagram post.

[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.

I don't have a Twitter account.

I think at all social networks, be it Facebook or Twitter or whatever it is, there's an ecosystem that exist there. But there's also an ego system that exists there.

Facebook is my life.

I don't tweet or do any other social media, so I don't know what's being said out there.

Through social media, young people are constantly being pinged about a whole slew of potentially better matches or social activities.

If you don't have a Facebook, like, you're nobody. There's all of these sort of requirements now, and if you don't have all of these things - Facebook, Twitter, etc. - you're made fun of. And Twitter for celebrities... everything is just getting so personal. Pictures of yourself, of what you're eating for breakfast.

If you don't have an E-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your own World Wide Web page, you're a nobody.

I've never really been into social media - I don't have a Facebook; I don't do Twitter or Instagram or anything.

People can live without a Facebook account: my 13-year-old daughter has cancelled her account because it's not cool anymore.

Social media is changing the way we communicate and the way we are perceived, both positively and negatively. Every time you post a photo, or update your status, you are contributing to your own digital footprint and personal brand.