George Saunders Quotes

Mostly, I stay out of social media conversations. But sometimes, they hunt me down and shoot at me anyway!

I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.

I do know one thing: it's best not to read the Internet.

Children used to get bullied at school. Now they go home, and that's where the problem starts - because they sit on their phones all night, thinking about who's 'liked' a photo of them, who hates them, who loves them. They don't know what's real and what's not, editing their lives constantly to fit other people's views.

I love the Internet, but I think you have to only use it in the ways that are good for you. I think there's so much speculation that happens.

I am, as a father, very worried about the growing evidence of the impact of social media on children's mental health.

I think all this Facebook stuff should just stop!

The great virtue of the web, its ease of communication, has also become its Achilles' heel in that it has polluted the air with meaningless babble and egomaniacal drivel.

Social media has come a long way. With the good has come some bad, and you always have a lot of people hiding behind their computers and being very critical of what you do on and off the field, of what you tweet, of what you say, of everything you do.

If the Internet, ubiquitous as it now is, proves too dangerous in the hands of the psychologically fragile, perhaps access to it ought to be restricted. We ban drunks from driving because they're a danger to others. Isn't it time we did the same to trolls?

I feel social media can be very distracting, unhealthy, and harmful to one's self-confidence. I don't even log on to it on my phone except when I post something on Instagram.

We won't allow the people to be devoured by YouTube, Facebook or others.

People are going so far as to kill themselves over the things that happen online.

People seem to be losing their sense of boundaries more and more, what people are willing to put up on the internet, especially blogs. People seem to assume that only their friends are going to read it but anyone in the world could read it at any time.

I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd rather just pick up the phone. Or Skype.

The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.

You know, it's really strange now with the Internet, with everyone having an unsolicited, anonymous opinion.

On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.

I don't really troll the Internet; I'm not young enough.

The Internet is a bastion of negativity, and we get to sit there and voice our cute, little, important opinions.

There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don't have to think, you just have to get more information - gets very dangerous.

When I think about it, I do start to worry about this whole social media thing. It does make me uncomfortable; kids should be out, living their lives, getting out and enjoying themselves.

To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shortening attention spans, the physical cost of sedentary 'surfing' and the potential for coarsening discourse as millions of web pages compete for attention by appealing to our base instincts.

I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.'

Twitter should ban my mother.