Jason Calacanis Quotes

I'm a very loyal and very private person when it comes to my personal life. But I obviously do have Twitter and Instagram, and I will share some of the things I'm doing.

Most days I am in public. If I go to the store, with social media, I'm in public. It might as well be a press conference.

I'd like to keep my personal life private. In reality, I know that's not possible. In the present, I'm trying to pretend it's possible.

My life, I swear, is, like, 75% public. I have a very small percentage of my life that is private. But I do keep that private life private.

Everyone posts everything in real time as it happens.

Some people bare their entire life on the Internet. There are politicians and actors, who like that. But there are some who don't want to do that.

I never want people to know who I'm going out with or about my family. But it's difficult, because when people have seen you online since you were 14, they feel like they know you.

Whilst the Internet is amazing, someone with a laptop can make something amazing and send it out, but you grow up creatively in a very public way.

Social media has changed everything. Since we're talking about what we do when we wake up and posting it, we're talking about where we go on Sundays. It's not just about where you work anymore. It's about your life.

[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.

I don't have Twitter or Facebook or MySpace or any of those things. I think there's a kind of risky thing privacy wise and I'm a private, guided person and don't want to get too open.

I have lived in public as a somewhat recognizable person since I was a teenager. Emails I answer end up posted on sites; pictures of me and someone I just met, taken by a cellphone, literally number in the thousands and are easily accessed.

I'm not on social media because I feel like that would be just such another level of responsibility that I don't feel up to. It's not uncommon now to have personal and public intertwined, and I don't know how people are able to manage that. I don't know where you go when you want to be alone if everything is out there.

On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.

I've had some good moments at karaoke. Back in the day, oh my gosh... before, I was more in the public eye. Nowadays, I don't do it as much because if you do, it's going to be on the Internet.

My Instagram is all me. I like to keep it very personal, and I'd like to keep it that way. You don't really follow to see promotional things at all times. It's my connection with my fans.

Before the Internet became so powerful, I toured extensively. With the rise of the Internet, touring apparently has become less important.

I share so much of my life on social media, and I love the honest connection with the people that follow me.

I'm only on Instagram, and it's under a ridiculous name, and I'm friends with, like, five people, all of whom I've had dinner with.

If there was Twitter when I wrote some of my early stuff, there'd be no 'Matilda.'

I don't have a personal Facebook or Twitter account.

For years, my marriage to Prince was mine. The idea of exposing myself to the world... was terrifying.

People only see you in blogs, and they think they know everything about your life.

The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.

To show my everyday life to the world was not my intention.