Ashton Kutcher Quotes

In the digital age, there is a new rule book for romance.

Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I get text messages on my cell phone all day long, and it warbles to alert me that someone has sent me a message on Facebook or a reply or direct message on Twitter, but it rarely ever rings.

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.

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.

Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways.

When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting - this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That's important. But it's not transformative.

Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate in an instant almost anywhere. Gone is the slow old letter - itself a monologue, a sort of considered performance of best self - and in its place is the e-mail, the text, the SMS, the tweet.

Technology is changing the way we interact as humans.

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

With this 'social media,' instead of letters you get emails. They're all written in a hurry, with no punctuation, no paragraphs - it's one continual stream, with spelling mistakes. Quite frankly I think it's a world I don't need. But I have to read them all because people say, 'Did you get my letter?' And it's not even a letter!

We can be incredibly disconnected in this day and age with computers and cell phones.

Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.

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

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.

E-mails, phone calls, Web sites, videos. They're still all letters, basically, and they've come to outnumber old-fashioned conversations. They are the conversation now.

In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?

Through historical accident, we've ended up with a global network that pretty much allows anybody to communicate with anyone else at any time.

Social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr provide an unparalleled ability for people to stay connected in new and unique ways.

We do live in this age of new media.

You know, kids text a lot today. It's phenomenal.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone's inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

I text a lot people, because it's how I stay connected with all my family and friends when I'm on set and traveling.

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.

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

I don't understand this whole Twitter, Facebook stuff. I don't get it. Make a phone call. Talk to somebody.