Sherry Turkle Quotes

Teenagers would rather text than talk. They feel calls would reveal too much.

I do think technology really has changed the way that we communicate with each other and texting can be the way to communicate and to kind of get up the nerve to say things that maybe you wouldn't say in real life, but that also comes with a price.

Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction.

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

I used to always prefer to text, and in fact got indignant when people called. This was totally irrational.

I had no idea that social networking would be as prominent as it is today. And it's important to understand what that phenomenon is. If you text someone, you get an immediate response; if you e-mail them, you probably never hear from them.

I don't want no mail. Send me a Facebook message.

Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.

I find texting to be kind of a safe space.

I think hearing kids my age miss out on genuine connections already because they text so much, and then they feel awkward when they are face to face with someone.

We're technology obsessed. I think it's easier to text than to actually say hi to someone.

My generation was secretive, brooding, ambitious, show-offy, and this generation is congenial. Totally. I imagine them walking around with GPS chips that notify them when a friend is in the vicinity, and their GPSes guide them to each other in clipped electronic lady voices and they sit down side by side in a coffee shop and text-message each other while checking their e-mail and hopping and skipping around Facebook to see who has posted pictures of their weekend.

I am always texting!

I don't have anyone's number; I just Facebook them.

In the past, before phones and the Internet, all communication was face-to-face. Now, most of it is digital, via emails and messaging services. If people were to start using virtual reality, it would almost come full circle.

We are more and more into technology. Everything is texting, and everything is instant. Flowers are completely impractical as a method of communication when you could just send a text.

Twitter makes me feel like I have friends all over.

I'm not a naturally social-media inclined person. I still prefer phone calls to texts/emails. I... hate texts.

I did have AOL Instant Messenger when I was in middle school.

In the age of social media and dating apps, so many people are able to hide behind their Instagram page or their Raya page or Facebook. And it's like, 'Let's set something up! I want to meet face-to-face.' And 'Take Me' was about, 'Are you going to take me out? Do I have to be the first person to make the move?'

I'm terrible on the phone. I just text my friends and family and say, 'Hey, I'm in town.'

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.

The Internet links me to friends and family around the world. Skype rocks!

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

When we look at social media, we really look at it on a continuum, and the continuum is from accumulation to instant expression.