Tina Brown Quotes

The Internet, Facebook, synagogue pamphlets, and the plethora of TV channels and cellular networks in our lives increasingly blur the boundary between the public and private sphere.

Nothing we do is ever going unnoticed. It's on CCTV cameras, it's on iphones, it's everywhere.

There is no privacy in our culture anymore, so I have to try and carve that out for myself, but I'm OK with it.

I came out of a culture when there wasn't tweeting and everyone with a camera in their hands. I didn't grow up with it, so I'm not always thinking about it, but there have been times when I looked over, and I saw that someone was recording my conversation.

I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.

I've learned that social media and our private lives, you know, our private lives are not so private anymore, so it takes a little bit of getting used to.

I don't really use Facebook, because I find it a bit intrusive on your personal life.

If you are everywhere, then you've sacrificed the very thing that you are complaining about, which is your own privacy.

The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes.

Facebook creeps me out.

Keeping a secret in the social media age often is impossible.

I was a very private person. I never had an open social media account. So, for me to walk down the street and have people say, 'Hey, Tan!' I turn around thinking, 'Do I know you?'

I share more than most people probably do online.

There are tribes in Africa who believe that a camera steals a little part of your soul, and in a way, I think that's true about living your private life in public. It takes something away from your relationships; it cheapens them.

Even if people would know who we are, or you could click on a Wikipedia page saying my date of birth, it does not necessarily mean that I have to go out on social media and tell you where I'm eating.

I really value my anonymity and privacy.

I've got nothing to hide and other misunderstandings of privacy

Do we value privacy in any real way? Thinking about blogs, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace... all these suggest we value exposure rather more. And instead of challenging this transformation, as they are supposed to - certainly at the more thoughtful edges of the art - novelists are buying into it wholesale.

Facebook and Google are battling over who will be our gateway to the rest of the Internet through 'like' buttons and universal logins - giving them huge power over our online identities and activities.

In the Internet age, it is inevitable that corporations and government agencies will have access to detailed information about people's lives.

I've got a presence on all the social networks, in fact, but I've never once sent a message. I'm there because otherwise, someone's going to pretend to be me.

I talk to my fan club members, and I blog, and they know what's going on. But as far as Twitter, I'll be in a restaurant, and I'll get home, and somebody tweeted, and they talked about what I ordered and what I was wearing. In some cases, that could be dangerous, because you don't want everybody to know where you are every second of every day.

I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.

You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.

In this world, everyone wants to know everything about you, and I think that's funny.