Vanessa Diffenbaugh Quotes

Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I get text messages on my cell phone all day long, and it warbles to alert me that someone has sent me a message on Facebook or a reply or direct message on Twitter, but it rarely ever rings.

I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.

You know, kids text a lot today. It's phenomenal.

I don't understand this whole Twitter, Facebook stuff. I don't get it. Make a phone call. Talk to somebody.

Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate in an instant almost anywhere. Gone is the slow old letter - itself a monologue, a sort of considered performance of best self - and in its place is the e-mail, the text, the SMS, the tweet.

We didn't even have email when I was in college.

I think there's been a gigantic shift in the way we talk to each other, and the way that we communicate with each other. So as a filmmaker, the stuff's always been really interesting to me, and I sort of considered a lot of my films horror films, the ones that were relationship dramas, because I feel like it was very easy to look at modern communication and the Internet and cell phones and all that stuff as horror movies, basically.

All forms of contact are good: letters, parcels, e-mails - I've been trying to get a Webcam for my computer, but I'm such a Luddite.

Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now.

In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.

I don't believe in e-mail. I rarely use a cell phone and I don't have a fax.

Language is always evolving. It's difficult to read Shakespeare now because language has shifted. Similarly, kids these days can get to the point really quick in about 140 characters or less because of these new tools.

Unlike then, the mail stream of today has diminished by such things as e-mails and faxes and cell phones and text messages, largely electronic means of communication that replace mail.

I don't use e-mail or u-mail or whatever it's called.

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.

I do use texting as a great way to communicate quickly, but I don't Twitter or anything.

I don't write letters anymore.

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication. And so many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old.

The way communication works is changing.

This new form of communication could have some utility.

We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.

I love texting and DM'ing on Twitter. I will pretty much avoid talking on the phone at all costs.

I don't really use emojis. Is that weird? In the time it takes for me to even find the flexed-arm emoji, I could just type that I'm at the gym.