Carly Chaikin Quotes

We do spend too much time on the telephone, and you know something? We love it.

I think there's a fear of disconnect sometimes; communication is a huge issue for all of us, from adults to kids, as far as our face-to-face time and our ability to interact with each other without isolating itself to a phone. I think that has to be something that's very challenging.

Cell phones have gotten so small, you can't tell who's a cell phone user and who's a schizophrenic.

People simply don't make eye contact anymore.

Thinking of that movie 'The Artist'; if anyone ever needed to reach anyone, I'm just thinking they didn't have cell phones, they didn't have Internet, they didn't have email, so I always wonder how it was back then where you had to be home if you needed to get a phone call; otherwise, people couldn't get a hold of you.

The Internet is like the phone. To be without it is ridiculous.

On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there. When they smile - right, you've seen people stop - all of a sudden, life is being lived there, somewhere up in that weird, dense network.

People live too much of their lives on email or the Internet or text messages these days. We're losing all of our communication skills.

What did people do prior to cell phones? Read a book? If I'm stuck in a car, and I don't have my phone, I'm like, 'What am I doing?' Car rides used to be one of my favorite things.

Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

I think that we're reducing who we are as human beings to these cell phones and these devices; now we don't even want to pick up a telephone to talk - we just text.

As efficiently as our phones connect us to one another, and as much as we take advantage of that, we must remember that they have the power to alienate us, too.

There are so many things calling you toward that computer or TV. You forget, we're a family. We're all supposed to spend time together and talk.

Think what we would have missed if we had never ... used a mobile phone or surfed the Net -- or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.

Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It's a technology that brings people together.

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

When we change the way we communicate, we change society.

I don't use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.

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

We go into restaurants, and people aren't talking anymore. They're texting. While they are sitting at a restaurant with each other. So we're losing this intimacy that we need to have as human beings.

We don't even know our friends' phone numbers anymore.

We have a million ways to get ahold of people, and we're the loneliest we've ever been.

For me, I value connection a lot, talking to people and connecting. Don't get me wrong: I enjoy having my own time, but I think it's really important to have that connection, so living on Mars would be a struggle for me.