Michael Ian Black Quotes

The social web can't exist until you are your real self online. I have to be me. You have to be you. Once we are online as ourselves, connected to each other and our other friends, then you can have the evolution of what becomes the social web.

There's more of me on Twitter than there is in real life.

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

Social media should be a true sense of who you are.

I did have a Twitter account that I tried for a couple days, but found I had nothing to say. There are some interesting facts I could share, but I don't want to share that part of myself.

I'm not a Facebook girl. Even though there is a fake Facebook with my name, it's not me. I'm not on Twitter; it's not me.

I have a Twitter account. I own my name, but I've never tweeted.

Look, I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is. But if I wasn't in this position, I'm sure I would use it every day.

I have always had stuff on the Internet. Way back in the Myspace days, I had a lot of friends on Myspace. And it is just all about, like, networking - contacting people and showing people, like, your mind.

There's definitely more to me offline than what you see online. Because what I show online is what I want to show to my followers... If I showed everything I did offline, it might not align with some of my other followers around the world.

Approximating authenticity online is not such a tall order. In fact, it may be the very least we can do.

It just feels unnatural to me to broadcast anything other than the character I've created.

If my life depended on being a social-media person in terms of talking myself up, I probably would be in trouble because - not that I wouldn't be able to step up to it - but I wouldn't love it. I wouldn't want to be that person; that wouldn't be my natural thing.

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.

My Google existence is probably larger than a lot of people's.

I do not have a Facebook page, and I do not chat on Twitter. I don't have a web site, even if there are people who have opened one in my name, complete with my photo.

Online, you play at being yourself.

I just love social media. I love that you can create your own image of yourself.

For me, on social media, I try as hard as I can to be myself.

I try to keep my social media really close to my personality. Then people can see exactly who I am and what I like to say and the message I want to bring.

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

I grew up on Facebook; it's a different realm I live in. For some people, this is inauthentic, but for me, it's all I know.

When it comes to how I portray myself online, I'm trying to be as real as I can and show people every side of what I do and not just put up selfies online of me in full done-up make up and stuff.

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

I found social media was a way for me to open up and show the world who I was and also keep my name out there.