Connor Franta Quotes

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

I like people-people rather than movie people.

I like being around people.

It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.

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

Apps have made it easier to meet people but harder to connect.

I would much rather interact with people in person and be in the moment than taking pictures of the moment.

I remind myself that I'm always more satisfied by human interaction than by a digital connection.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

I love people and I love to be around people.

I'm very tech-forward. However, I also think hitting the pause button is not a bad thing, and really connecting with people one-to-one viscerally, having a connection with someone, is really important.

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.

Indeed, though people increasingly learn and interact online, we retain a fundamental need to engage in person.

I want to play real people. Real women. I want to be where the fun is - closer to humanity.

I'm struck these days by how often people come up to me and ask to take a photograph instead of shaking hands, meeting one's eyes, and having an actual conversation.

It turns out that the most powerful use of technology is to connect people together socially.

People en masse have lost the ability to go out there and meet people in real life.

I'm not particularly interested in my phone. I'm interested in human contact. I think phones have created a certain social incapacity; it's made people socially deficient.

I'm good with digital technology, but I start to miss the physical world. I miss riding my bike, talking to friends.

Human interaction is something that I believe, as humans, we crave for. And that is where bars and social environments come into play.

I love coffee, but I don't photograph it. That's not who I am. I'm a social creature, so my subject should not be the coffee. It's about being together with friends.

Thanks to the greatly improved possibility of communication, we overrate its importance. Even stronger, we underrate the importance of isolation.

Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will germinate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.