Terence McKenna Quotes

Here's the best place that people can find me: go to this website called Google, and then type my name into it. So much stuff.

[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.

We are living in the time of self-creation and you can become your own star and this is the essential set that it needs to take that selfie that's going to take you to that next place.

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

What I wanted to make sure of is that I wasn't just tagged as a Viner.

I think in this world of social media, we will be lost if we don't have an online account.

I am comfortable with technology. I am a private person and would rather not be on Twitter or Facebook.

I didn't want to sit around and wait for someone to discover me, so I created my own self through the Internet.

I think, having grown up with the Internet, things like trolls and the world of having an online life as well as a physical one, it's something I've grown up with.

Even though I have Twitter, I only use it to say, 'Oh, this is coming out.' I would never voice anything about me, really.

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've been an Internet person since early on, been a social media person since early on.

I don't have social media. I don't have Facebook or Instagram or Snapchat.

Facebook is not the world.

You need to be aware of what you're putting on social media and what you're talking about.

People who want to know who I am, or my history, put my name into Google.

All of us in the modern world are constructing our identities, largely through social media, for a larger audience.

I chose to share my life online, so I can't really complain about it. There's not much that's off limits.

I've been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That's why I'm on social media a lot.

In high school, getting recruited, usually guys have Twitters and Instagrams so that they can talk to coaches. I didn't have Twitter. All I had was Instagram. So someone created a fake Twitter account about me, and it was the most ridiculous stuff that you could ever think about.

I've used the Internet since I was in high school - it was my tool for self-promotion.

Just like I tell my daughters, first impressions are important, so once it's out there, whether it's a picture or a TV show, it's there; it's gonna be out there forever.

I share more than most people probably do online.

The way people express themselves online, that's also how they express themselves in the real world.

Being in the public eye, with the Internet - it's scary. You can put out too much, and it becomes a part of the pie chart of who you are. Things stick. And they never go away.