Megan M. Duffy Quotes

There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter.

I don't want to get into extended conversations with people on MySpace, because there are friends I have extended conversations with every day.

There is nothing wrong with Facebook in itself, except that it is not a very good tool to express the quality of your relationships.

I check Facebook to see how everybody from high school's doing. I go on Reddit to see what my weirdos are talking about. Then I go on Tumblr to see what my feminists are talking about.

I think technology gives the illusion that you are connecting with people, social media particularly.

The Internet has introduced me to some of my closest friends.

People are not just going to bars and meeting people; they're connecting through social media.

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

We live in a world where many of us have a lot of friends on Facebook but yet we have lost human connection.

I have a love-hate relationship with Twitter. There are moments I feel like 99 percent of the people who write stuff are the sweetest people, and then one crazy guy or girl spoils the whole thing.

My public Facebook page is what it is. My Twitter account is sort of what it is, but if I'm totally honest with you, that is not my personal, private self. I have another Facebook page that is devoted to my dear friends and family, and they can keep in touch with me that way.

Social networks are these intricate things of beauty, and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous that one has to ask what purpose they serve.

In this age of omniconnectedness, words like 'network,' 'community' and even 'friends' no longer mean what they used to. Networks don't exist on LinkedIn. A community is not something that happens on a blog or on Twitter. And a friend is more than someone whose online status you check.

Twitter was like a poem. It was rich, real and spontaneous. It really fit my style. In a year and a half, I tweeted 60,000 tweets, over 100,000 words. I spent a minimum eight hours a day on it, sometimes 24 hours.

I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.

Facebook is massive in scale and scope. Twitter is a public communication forum, but if I'm following you, you're not necessarily following me. LinkedIn is, simply, a professional network.

There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it's a fantastic idea. I've never had any bad encounters with any of it.

For most of our users, the vast majority of their MySpace friends are also offline friends. They're just connecting through a different medium when they're on MySpace.

When I was young, you went to school, dealt with your friends and drama, went home, did your homework, went to bed, and started over the next day. But that social interaction that happens at school doesn't end now - it goes until the minute you go to bed and starts again when you wake up.

I'm not on any social media. I know people who have met on Twitter and through Facebook. I had a friend, someone liked her photos on Instagram, and they started direct messaging each other and went out on a date! That's so foreign to me.

With 'Running Scared,' I originally wanted to do a piece that was going to be about a couple, and the whole thing would be based on wall posts on Facebook. So the idea started there.

Almost all the things you can do online can be enhanced by the social structure of MySpace.

Facebook takes it as a core truth that sharing and connecting is a force that will improve the world.

MySpace gives our members the ability to reach such an incredible range of people and have direct contact with them. I'm not sure how that devalues friendship so much as it expands the range of potential friends you can have.

If everybody is a Facebook friend, what is an actual friend?