Retta Quotes

Instagram is not a place for tone or irony.

Another good rule for social media, I find, is to never type and post. Instead, be sure to type, pause, think, and then post.

As with email, the recipient of a texted question seems to have the option to ignore it, while nevertheless saying, 'Hello, lovely day,' and so on.

On the Internet, everybody has an opinion about everything, but if you're smart, you know when to keep your mouth shut.

I know it's very 'old media' of me to admit this, but I am often unnerved by the lack of civility on the Web.

It only takes 140 characters to toss one's character out the window.

I got into Facebook late, and I think if you get into Facebook late, you tend to use it the right way, as opposed to the people who got into it sooner and friended everybody and now have a thousand friends. I keep it at about 80 or so, and they're all people I know. Just because I do a movie doesn't mean I friend everybody in it.

The country would be a lot better off if we stopped having comment sections. And if we got rid of Twitter.

If I was on Twitter, I'd probably get in trouble pretty quickly.

Social media is not the place to work out your problems with people.

You shouldn't say things on social media that you wouldn't say to someone's face.

In the black-and-white world of a girl in her late teens, I thought of things like Internet etiquette as obvious, rule-bound institutions. Facebook was Facebook, texts were texts, emails were emails, chats were chats, webcamming was webcamming, phone calls were phone calls.

I don't need to be on any micro-blogging site, because people don't think about what they say there. At times, people abuse, and it is too harsh for me to handle.

I'm not a big fan of that kind of stuff - of Twitter and Facebook. I just feel like I'm a very private person and I do enjoy personal interaction. It is nice to be able to talk with the fans, in person. I don't know if it's 'cause I'm just old-fashioned, but I'd rather a face-to-face conversation.

Facebook, I'm learning, is like a man. You have to be smiley and fun and witty but sometimes you have to play it cool and just ignore it for a couple of hours.

You can still say whatever you want to say on social media, but you have to be willing to stand by your words.

It's social media. You can't be thin-skinned.

The blogosphere makes it possible to have a sprawling national conversation about the hard times - often among people who would never find each other offline.

I'm too busy to block everyone on Twitter.

There's a lot of people blocked on my Twitter for various reasons which I don't need to get into.

Nothing screams 'I'm desperate for attention' like tweeting in all caps.

People moan about Twitter, people being rude and trolling. Just turn it off. Life goes on.

My debut book is a collection of personal stories and advice about communication on the Internet. More specifically, the downfall of communication because of the Internet.

Before Twitter, if comedians wrote what they had for lunch on a Post-it and put it through your letterbox you wouldn't find it acceptable - but now apparently it is on Twitter.

I think if you want to engage in social media, you must take the good with the bad.