Cyber Connections Quotes

I am not against people finding people to date on social media. That's the way it goes now.

I've heard stories of people meeting the loves of their lives online, and that's great. But it freaks me out.

Social networking sites like Myspace, Friendster, and Facebook have literally exploded in popularity in just a few short years.

I find most of the things I've done through the Internet. I'm like, 'Oh, that's how that turned out! I look good!'

Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

Bulletin boards are sort of the garage bands of cyberspace.

I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.

The interesting thing about the Internet is that it has created a kind of alternative circle of friends for people.

It's a deeper connection when you meet someone online and talk to them every day.

I dislike the phrase ‘Internet friends,’ because it implies that people you know online aren’t really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.

Electronic communication is an instantaneous and illusory contact that creates a sense of intimacy without the emotional investment that leads to close friendships.

The further I've gotten into the Internet, the more I've become convinced that we've explored only a tiny corner of what it can mean and what we can feel there.

There is a big difference between tweeting to your friend about something that is happening and having a real personal relationship with people.

I feel like social media is a great thing. I try not to go on it too much.

I've met very lonely people who have 10,000 friends on Facebook. And it's just not real. We've set up this artificial society in cyberspace. And that's supposed to be a community, like a real community. It's supposed to be where people go to get solace or friendship or have fun.

I have my loyal cyber-buddies out there, and I really do answer my e-mail. I'm in my pajamas at 3 in the morning with my zit medicine on. I owe everything to them.

I think having not only personal connections with friends and family I'm able to pull from, but having a connection with so many people through social media, it also feels like I have a relationship with those people that follow me. And feel that what I'm going through, they've gone through something similar, and that's why we've connected. And they're the ones that make it into that body of work that represents them or that time in their life, because we've found each other.