Michelle Dean Quotes

With the social media phenomenon, where people's opinions inform so much of what we do with our lives, where the number of 'likes' decides what we should program, I cringe.

That's the thing with social media: it's a gift and a curse. It's cool on one level, but it's also bad.

Social media companies are a gold rush today, and time will tell if they survive. I have no use for them and can't see why people waste time on them. I much prefer physical meeting with true friends, so have never used the service.

I am of the bridge generation that remembers life before social media permeated everything but cannot imagine life without it now.

Social media has changed our lives forever. Some continue to reject social media, refusing to become one of the sheep, but you just can't avoid it.

I'm not sure whether it's going to be the downfall of Rome - social media. There are too many secrets.

Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it's a new language.

I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.

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.

What we have found is that because of smartphones and access to media, and because everybody knows how everyone else lives, you have no idea where the next huge social movement is going to erupt.

Real social situations are taking a back seat to social media.

I think I'm slightly older than the generation that was really bred on social media - I had Facebook in high school, but I was growing up in a time where these things were relatively new, and every generation below me is growing up having every single thing they do seen. And that is kind of frightening.

I have often said social media is a race to the bottom.

The whole social media can destroy people overnight.

I have a love, hate relationship with social media. I love it, because it's built a platform for many people and many business... However, there is a dark side, which is negative and hateful.

Social media worries me because it's not part of my world.

I was the first real generation to have their teens on the Internet.

Social media and I have had a very tumultuous relationship.

I fought the social media thing kicking and screaming. It can demystify. But it's a different world now, and that is part of what we, as humans, have developed: right, wrong, good, bad, I don't know.

I think technology and smartphones created a huge paradigm shift that we can't fully comprehend, and I think in a lot of ways things are changing faster than we can really process.

Don't take social media seriously. Don't buy into the hype.

We can all agree that social media is an amazing platform where we can interact with and meet people and that we probably would have never had the chance to otherwise, right? However, it also has sadly become a place where some people go to share negative thoughts and comments.

It's difficult to get away from the media, from social media. It's a big thing in society and in football, in particular.

It's terrifying, social media. It terrifies me.

Social media is incredible: it creates a community that I'm really proud to be a part of, but it also creates illusions and a false reality, and it's difficult to grow up with that.