James Lasdun Quotes

The Internet is especially adept at compressing humanity and making it easy to forget there are people behind tweets, posts, and memes.

There will never be a replacement for that ongoing physical contact. But I don't think blogging is meant to replace the face-to-face of friendships and meetings. Blogging is a way to keep in touch with a larger group of people on an ongoing basis, in a more efficient way.

I am a member of the human race. There's a certain irony about the cyberworld. You don't know who is talking to you, if it's a machine, so I tend to try to reach out to those fellow humans.

It's amazing how directly you can connect with people via social media.

E-mail is a whole new way of being friends with people: intimate but not, chatty but not, communicative but not; in short, friends but not. What a breakthrough. How did we ever live without it? I have more to say on this subject, but I have to answer an instant message from someone I almost know.

Technology has given us access to the world and its sea of content, allowing us to never speak to another person if we don't want to.

The sole forms of social interaction I was aware of as a kid involved a jungle gym and a sticker book. It was only in high school that ICQ - a prehistoric form of instant messaging - was first incorporated into my cultural vocabulary.

I think everybody in the future has stopped talking to each other and we all just use emojis.

Doesn't it seem ironic that people fear that we might become alienated by communicating with each other through computers, when we are already staring at these boxes in our living rooms for seven or eight hours a day, slack-jawed and saying nothing to anyone on either side and not talking back to it.

I certainly think we're losing a lot of our connections with other people. I fear in my most pessimistic moments that the computer is simply another step down the road which we have already taken quite a few steps on. We're talking to each other on computers because we don't talk across the fence.

Everyone’s gone mad, typing to themselves all day long like mindless robots.

MySpace is a great way to keep in touch with friends who you don't care enough about to actually have a conversation with, why bother calling to say "how are you," when you can just surf their page and post an mpeg of a guy farting on his cat.

The Internet has introduced me to some of my closest friends.

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.

Online is another way for all of us to reach people.

People are not just going to bars and meeting people; they're connecting through social media.

It's always weird when people come out to see you because everything's mostly online now.

We believe as people share experiences virtually, their avatars should have the ability to express a full range of emotions.

You can't socialise without being faceless idiots. More people have Facebook friends than actual friends these days.

I love the efficiency of the Internet. If I come across something that I want to share right away, I can do it.

There are a hundred thousand people on my Snapchat that I can talk to. And I think that's awesome.

I never really had a lot of friends where I lived. Online, you can have thousands of friends.

In tech-land, no one cares what kind of car you drive, and frankly, they're not going to find out anyway. You're not going to go to lunch together, because you're going to be sitting in your cube with a brown bag eating lunch.

I actually get very little phone calls. I get way more tweets and texts. My phone rarely rings.

My father and a bunch of my cousins and uncles, they didn't have the opportunity to use FaceTime or Skype, all these different technologies and advancements that we have.