Tim O'Reilly Quotes

People are mean on social media, whoever you are. It's a shame people have to be that way.

The Internet has become a tool to pick on people and ruin someone's life. I don't think parents realize what's going on.

The Internet has become a hate-filled town square with no limits put on destructive verbal behavior.

I've noticed a lot of people are very bold and blustery on Twitter because it's easy to do that with the poison keyboard and a hundred and forty characters.

Maybe for every 100 fans who thought about saying something nasty to singer Justin Bieber this month, maybe 200 did.

Online abuse has been a problem since the earliest days of the web.

I don't like how social media allows people to be so mean and say really hurtful, negative things. It's just not cool.

Firing insults anonymously behind the keys of a message board, slandering other people's beliefs or opinions, this happens on a daily basis in my comment section or on my feed. Cyber-bullying and, further, online social ignorance, is a very real problem, typically without any real consequence.

It is so easy to sit behind a screen and create an account that spreads hate.

Unfortunately there are some not-so-nice people using social media, and that has proven to be complicated for other actors that I've known.

Social media, to me, has got out of hand. Why can't we all be nice to each other?

That's what Twitter is: a very negative place.

People like to get bold behind a computer or an iPhone, and say whatever they want. I don't stand for that.

Trolls live in their own pathetic bubble, and it's called Twitter.

Online hate needs to be taken as seriously as offline hate - but it isn't.

I had seen a lot of bullying on social media. If this is happening to me, who only a few people are paying attention to, what happens to somebody who is on a bigger scale?

Twitter has made some improvements on the site and it's important that you can report people - but when you are getting the level of abuse I was, it's an onerous task reporting each and every person.

I've been a jerk on the internet since the internet started.

The way things happen on social media is so abusive and everyone needs to take personal responsibility for what they write and not allowing this misinterpretation and shaming culture on social media to persist.

There are a lot of people who are overly judgemental on the Internet.

When it comes to letting kids out into dark alleys, we understand that they have things to steal. We need to understand that in online life, too.

Games don't cause racism. But the real-time chat makes nasty comments hard to moderate and easy to spread.

I know that social media's said to be a really dangerous place, and it is.

In the physical world, we would never blame the victim of the assault for that assault taking place, but yet we do so all the time in the cyber world. I think that's completely misguided.

'Youngblood' #1 was my first brush with Internet bashing. Message boards were just emerging, but the criticism was drowned out by millions of copies flying off shelves.