Barack Obama Quotes

My debut book is a collection of personal stories and advice about communication on the Internet. More specifically, the downfall of communication because of the Internet.

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.

A lot of times, it seems like social media has devolved into people just yelling at each other and not really conversing.

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

Nowadays with the internet, it's an equal opportunity brutal playing field. I mean, everyone is brutal to everybody half the time. People can be unbelievably brutal on the internet, about everything. But they can also be really, really nice. The problem is that human beings like to focus on the negative sometimes, unfortunately.

Particularly on social media, there is that level of detachment, some people feel like they can say whatever pops in their head .

There's a negative connotation to internet trolls, but at the same time this is becoming mainstream. This kind of speech pattern, the way people speak, this is common on the internet.

Twitter has allowed the conversation to broaden and become more inclusive. At times, the conversation is really tense but that's because we're talking about really important issues. It's not going to be easy but at least the conversations are happening.

That's what's so great about the Internet. It allows pompous blow-hards to connect with other pompous blow-hards in a vast circle-jerk of pomposity.

The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?

Twitter is the Devil's playground.

I think 4chan is going to stay the same.

Twitter can be great and very bad.

It feels like every day or two, people on Twitter and the Internet are outraged about something.

Now, admittedly, Twitter can be entertaining on occasion, as it turns out that 140 characters offers a great chance to be misunderstood - and an even greater chance one will expose his inner troglodyte.

Tweeting? It's one of the silliest things ever.

The Internet is a bastion of negativity, and we get to sit there and voice our cute, little, important opinions.

It only takes 140 characters to toss one's character out the window.

I just think the Internet has made us ruder.

Psychologists call this the online disinhibition effect, in which factors like anonymity, invisibility, a lack of authority, and not communicating in real time strip away the mores society spent millennia building. and its sweeping from our smartphones into every aspect of our lives.

The Internet links me to friends and family around the world. Skype rocks!

I'm afraid the Internet is filled with people using really very intemperate language.

If I was on Twitter, I'd probably get in trouble pretty quickly.

Tech gives people more opportunities to be themselves in front of other people. Sometimes that's great; sometimes it's bad.

Everyone talks about how the anonymity of the Internet allows people to behave badly, but I think it's the other way around, that the anonymity removes the 'self' from the people we're talking to online. Other people lose their humanity in our eyes. The system is set up to dehumanize.