Jay Asher Quotes

Little girls think it's necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it's a shame...I'm all about mystery.

The nature of the internet is that you don't know who is behind the screen.

It was a phenomenon I noticed many years ago. Young people were just giving up every bit of information about themselves they could.

It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It's just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.

Well, there's that girl on the Internet - although this isn't an example of someone who doesn't know they're on - but there's a girl on the Internet who posts one photograph every two minutes from her bedroom.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

I think, having grown up with the Internet, things like trolls and the world of having an online life as well as a physical one, it's something I've grown up with.

Some people bare their entire life on the Internet. There are politicians and actors, who like that. But there are some who don't want to do that.

You need to be aware of what you're putting on social media and what you're talking about.

The way people express themselves online, that's also how they express themselves in the real world.

Everything I post online is curated.

If you make the Internet, live on the internet.

I don't even want to have things associated with my name on the internet - it's very dangerous.

Here's my take on Instagram: It's so ridiculous that people can go on and play characters, and none of it [should be] taken too seriously.

Do we value privacy in any real way? Thinking about blogs, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace... all these suggest we value exposure rather more. And instead of challenging this transformation, as they are supposed to - certainly at the more thoughtful edges of the art - novelists are buying into it wholesale.

I'm not a Facebook girl. Even though there is a fake Facebook with my name, it's not me. I'm not on Twitter; it's not me.

I tweet myself and do all the Facebook updates. It started off with me wondering whether I was showing off and I was very careful about what I wrote.

You can use your real identity, or you can use phone numbers for something like WhatsApp, and pseudonyms for something like Instagram. But in any of those you're not just sharing and consuming content, you are also building relationships with people and building an understanding of people.

I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is.

Surprisingly, I think if you're known on the Internet, you're probably an introvert.

I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.

I don't really troll the Internet; I'm not young enough.

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 Googled myself, and I saw some nice things and some not-so-nice things. I've learned that that stuff isn't real, and it doesn't exist unless you look at it.

I'm surrendering myself to the realities of the Internet.