Jason Reitman Quotes

The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other.

With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.

I don't do Facebook and I don't do Twitter, and already I notice that, with some of my friends, there's a whole sphere of conversation that I'm completely on the outside of, and that's my choice. But, to a greater extent, that's what the whole of life is like.

The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.

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.

One of the great ironies of the social media era is that some of the least social people in the world created it.

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.

I think, as people, we're isolating ourselves. We're talking to each other through our phones, arguing... those divisions freak me out.

I think technology gives the illusion that you are connecting with people, social media particularly.

I don't have anyone to be reunited with. My whole reception class is on Facebook.

We all think we are connected to the world now, but we are not talking to our neighbours any more.

In an odd sort of way, the computer and the Internet is the hermit's ideal form of communication. You don't have to see anyone. To send an email, you don't have to talk to anyone. You can just send it, and they'll read it on their own. The Internet has been really good for hermits.

You can't socialise without being faceless idiots. More people have Facebook friends than actual friends these days.

We live in such an isolating time with technology and social media and I think that creates this feeling of having to connect, of having so many ways to connect but nothing's connecting.

I never really had a lot of friends where I lived. Online, you can have thousands of friends.

Social networking like Facebook or Twitter is very popular, but one thing I have found is that the more social networking tools you are using, the more alone you feel.

Now I see that all relationships are virtual, even those that take place in person. Whether we use our bodies or a keyboard, it all comes down to two minds crying out from their solitude.

I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

I don't want to get into extended conversations with people on MySpace, because there are friends I have extended conversations with every day.

Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.

We can be incredibly disconnected in this day and age with computers and cell phones.

The world is becoming nicer and easier, but that doesn't mean we are any less lonely or any more connected.

I'm not such a fan of the concept of social media, though I don't have anything against it. I still love to call the people I want to be friends with.

Online communities are an expression of loneliness.

Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways.