Leslie Jones Quotes

Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism.

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.

We didn't need the Internet for Nazi Germany to happen. But I feel like there's this lack of humanity because of it.

Thanks to the greatly improved possibility of communication, we overrate its importance. Even stronger, we underrate the importance of isolation.

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

With everything that you can imagine at our fingertips, many of the social interactions that help tie people together in a community have faded away. Are communities traditionally built on relationships, trust and familiarity a thing of the past?

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

We live in a world where many of us have a lot of friends on Facebook but yet we have lost human connection.

We like technology because we don't have to talk to anybody.

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

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

We go into restaurants, and people aren't talking anymore. They're texting. While they are sitting at a restaurant with each other. So we're losing this intimacy that we need to have as human beings.

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.

I think people are really desperate for conversations. I'm really fascinated by the idea that at the same time, the internet is sort of expunging our attention spans.

Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company.

You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here I could stand it... But now it has changed. You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people to nonpeople." - J.R. Isidore

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

More and more of us live segmented, compartmentalized lives. This isn't natural. For millions of years, our forebears knew everyone around them and everyone knew them.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

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

People simply don't make eye contact anymore.

I want to be around people, not crickets.

Social does not just equal Facebook. Social is how people interact anywhere.