Jenna Wortham Quotes

Digital technology is both arousing and distancing. We don't look at the users on the other side as people. They aren't - they're just usernames, Facebook photos and Twitter handles.

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.

The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities.

Facebook has woven itself into the fabric of our lives and the foundation of the Internet. I think everything will be redefined because people are using their real identities on the Internet.

The complicated, ambiguous milieu of human contact is being replaced with simple, scalable equations. We maintain thousands more friends than any human being in history, but at the cost of complexity and depth. Every minute spent online is a minute of face-to-face time lost.

We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.

I've been studying the psychology of online connectivity for more than 30 years.

As for my friends, I do have friends that aren't in the entertainment world at all but do interact on social media. I think that's an innate human thing now, to connect via those channels.

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.

The Internet has introduced me to some of my closest friends.

Online is another way for all of us to reach people.

There's a huge shift in the way we connect with people as humans in the technology age versus right before that, when we still had a little bit of mystery.

A lot of people are living their lives online in much more public ways with Facebook and Twitter.

I don't read blogs, I don't have MySpace, I don't have Facebook or Twitter - none of that.

If I see what you're up to on Facebook but I don't see your updates on Flickr, I'll still care about Facebook.

A lot of people use social media to share mundane things or for self-glorification. I try to use it to share interesting things with people.

While the digital age has done so much to improve our world, it has dramatically changed our social structure, often further isolating us from each other.

In the Digital Age, recorders also tend to be oversharers, and with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest, they can do so on a grand scale.

I've stayed away from Twitter for a long time because I sort of didn't trust myself with such an intimate but very public way of relating to the world, but I feel like I've studied it enough.

The younger generation has embraced Twitter and Facebook massively, and they spend most of their time on there. So if I want to reach new fans or keep in touch with my current, I try to use Twitter and Facebook as much as possible.

I had no idea that social networking would be as prominent as it is today. And it's important to understand what that phenomenon is. If you text someone, you get an immediate response; if you e-mail them, you probably never hear from them.

My two daughters live on Facebook, and social media is their mode of communication.

I am a member of the human race. There's a certain irony about the cyberworld. You don't know who is talking to you, if it's a machine, so I tend to try to reach out to those fellow humans.

Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.

There is nothing wrong with Facebook in itself, except that it is not a very good tool to express the quality of your relationships.