Scotty Lago Quotes

Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.

I definitely stayed away from Twitter. I didn't want to be geotagged or anything.

I talk to my fan club members, and I blog, and they know what's going on. But as far as Twitter, I'll be in a restaurant, and I'll get home, and somebody tweeted, and they talked about what I ordered and what I was wearing. In some cases, that could be dangerous, because you don't want everybody to know where you are every second of every day.

Most days I am in public. If I go to the store, with social media, I'm in public. It might as well be a press conference.

You never know when someone is videotaping you or trying to capture your image. I see how it makes some people crazy.

I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.

The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes.

I am aware of some of the things about me on the Internet - like people putting up pictures of me online every single day on something called Rachel Watch!

Nothing we do is ever going unnoticed. It's on CCTV cameras, it's on iphones, it's everywhere.

Do we value privacy in any real way? Thinking about blogs, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace... all these suggest we value exposure rather more. And instead of challenging this transformation, as they are supposed to - certainly at the more thoughtful edges of the art - novelists are buying into it wholesale.

There is no privacy in our culture anymore, so I have to try and carve that out for myself, but I'm OK with it.

I do not go on my Wikipedia page. There's just too much weird information on there for me to pick apart.

If you're 15 and you tell someone a secret, they can put it up on Facebook. If you make a mistake, someone films it on their mobile and puts it up on YouTube. When you're 15, you deserve privacy.

How do you manage your online identity? It's something I talk about with my students all the time.

Kids need to remember that when you put something on Twitter, it's not like whispering to your friend, you've put it on a billboard that the whole world, including your own kids someday, can see.

I came out of a culture when there wasn't tweeting and everyone with a camera in their hands. I didn't grow up with it, so I'm not always thinking about it, but there have been times when I looked over, and I saw that someone was recording my conversation.

I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.

Just mention the idea of warrantless wiretaps and expect to get hit up with a congressional investigation. But give somebody an avatar and a URL, and he can't tweet, post or hyperlink enough personal information about himself to as many people as possible.

People's arrest tapes, mug shots, everything is online.

And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.

The digitally native generation has no idea what has been lost to the freedom of intimacy that has no fear of being recorded.

I don't want to be on the Internet.

Nowadays, everyone has a camera phone, and you have to be careful about being caught out there looking crazy and ending up on the Internet.

We live in a time where the media is a very difficult thing to navigate because it's everywhere, and I tend to want to be a lot more private with my life.

Every day I don't Google my name, there's another beautiful day.