Graham Linehan Quotes

Real social situations are taking a back seat to social media.

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

I'm not somebody who goes online after every episode airs because that would be, for me, getting too much feedback and too much information.

I don't tweet. I prefer face-to-face communication and sometimes Instagram.

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

While the digital age has done so much to improve our world, it has dramatically changed our social structure, often further isolating us from each other.

Facebook is studying emotional reaction to things and bringing you fewer of things you don't engage with and more of what you do.

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

I grew up with a computer, and many of my friends were people I met online.

I don't do Facebook and I don't do Twitter, and already I notice that, with some of my friends, there's a whole sphere of conversation that I'm completely on the outside of, and that's my choice. But, to a greater extent, that's what the whole of life is like.

I usually try to stay off my phone and enjoy the world, but when I am on my phone, it's always for social media - to talk to my bros and my fans and my friends.

I text and email my friends and family a lot, but that's about the extent of my high-tech-etude.

Our generation's grown up with the Internet, so it's an extension of our social lives; it's an extension of us. It makes perfect sense for me to use that medium.

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

It used to be that we imagined that our mobile phones would be for us to talk to each other. Now, our mobile phones are there to talk to us.

People's behavior will change with technology. I know very few young people who can't type out a text message on their phone with one thumb, for instance.

As for my friends, I do have friends that aren't in the entertainment world at all but do interact on social media. I think that's an innate human thing now, to connect via those channels.

I don't think anybody would argue now that the Internet isn't becoming a major factor in our lives. However, it's very new to us. Newsreaders still feel it is worth a special and rather worrying mention if, for instance, a crime was planned by people 'over the Internet.'

In the tech-savvy, real-time world we all live in today, everything is faster.

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.

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

My generation was born to work with social media - it's a natural part of our communication with the world.

Everything in our lives is encouraging us to turn inward with all the technology that we have available to us.

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

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