J. K. Rowling Quotes

Teenagers try to hide what's really going on in their communication online.

When I think about it, I do start to worry about this whole social media thing. It does make me uncomfortable; kids should be out, living their lives, getting out and enjoying themselves.

I'm scared of the Internet. That's not real, but it is. I'm worried about what it's doing to us.

We're all trapped in the digital world. It's filled with cat videos, and you have to dodge comments about how much you stink.

I stay off the Internet.

I try to stay away from all the blogs and messages boards.

Generally, social networking sites can be hugely promising and beneficial in opening new friendships and vistas and knowledge of the world, but they are also fraught with peril, when young people are reckless or headless.

To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shortening attention spans, the physical cost of sedentary 'surfing' and the potential for coarsening discourse as millions of web pages compete for attention by appealing to our base instincts.

I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.'

The Internet has played a major role in undermining public morality.

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

I sound like an old man when I talk about the Internet, but I am actually worried about what it's doing to our brains and our sense of connection.

Some people are totally fine with just checking Instagram once a day and then putting their phone down. But with me... self regulation is very difficult and it's a battle.

The dirty little secret that nobody likes to talk about is that things just might have been better before the Internet. We had more time to ourselves before cell phones and text messaging and Facebook consumed our lives.

Parents don't even know what's going on on Snapchat.

I've seen the negative impact social media can have, particularly on younger players, who grew up with Twitter and Instagram as an integral part of life.

The number of things that can happen to a child online are just as many as can happen to a child in the playground, only it's more immediate and they have the whole world at their finger tips.

We're all posting and clicking and sharing, but we're not devoting enough attention to get anything meaningful from it all.

I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

Now we have a menace that is called Twitter. The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society.

I think that Internet as such, as a phenomenon is worth prohibiting because it gives nobody anything good.

You have to be really careful with what you put out on social media and who you're talking to online.

I get concerned when I see kids on their phones. They don't read enough anymore, anything longer than a tweet.

I got rid of my Instagram and had a flip phone for two years. I only started one after a friend told me someone was impersonating me.

I've been reading a lot about what the Internet does to our brains.