Jess Phillips Quotes

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

Think about back in the day when we had Archie Bunker, 'The Jeffersons.' We had stuff to sit down and share and laugh at. The Internet has made it so we don't have to sit together anymore. It's so self-absorbed. No one has to talk to each other anymore, and people don't realize that that is killing us.

I see people growing more and more isolated in their lives. It's not like it's a new thing, but it's more preoccupying now as you can do so many things without leaving your home. You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.

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.

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

I feel like kids are getting more and more used to communicating through a glass screen than they are face-to-face, and that worries me a little.

I think everybody in the future has stopped talking to each other and we all just use emojis.

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

Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.

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

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

Things like Facebook have made you feel as though you're connected to everybody. You've got a thousand friends on Facebook, but you don't actually talk to anybody. You're not close to anybody.

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

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.

Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.

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.

We have to wonder whether digital technology, rather than making it easier to communicate, is actually doing the opposite. We now sit alone at a keyboard, firing off zeros and ones into the ether. Offices are silent.

People live too much of their lives on email or the Internet or text messages these days. We're losing all of our communication skills.

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

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.

Everything in our lives is encouraging us to turn inward with all the technology that we have available to us.

Doesn't it seem ironic that people fear that we might become alienated by communicating with each other through computers, when we are already staring at these boxes in our living rooms for seven or eight hours a day, slack-jawed and saying nothing to anyone on either side and not talking back to it.

I certainly think we're losing a lot of our connections with other people. I fear in my most pessimistic moments that the computer is simply another step down the road which we have already taken quite a few steps on. We're talking to each other on computers because we don't talk across the fence.

I hate the modern day the kids live in. I don't think it's very cool. Everyone's interconnected.

How many of you text message? It's a great way of not communicating.