Digital Balance Quotes

That's why I'm not on Twitter and don't have an iPhone. It's not because I'm superior to it: it's because I would be a slave to it, and I don't want that to happen.

I shut down social media because I needed to shut out online distractions and engage with the people, issues, and work right in front of me.

I think social media is an interesting beast - you can't get too caught up in it. People can get caught up in it sometimes, but I think it's important to live in the present and not on the computer screen.

Being in Silicon Valley makes me strict when it comes to my children's technology use. I am surrounded by it all day, so I try to avoid it when I get home. I set screen-time limits, because I think it's good to diversify activities.

I can't do Twitter or Facebook, mostly because I feel like I'm the type of person who has to regiment the amount of time I spend doing certain things or I'll just wade in it, and then I'll never come out.

For days on end, I avoid the Web, never logging in until about two or three, after I've written all morning. On a good week, I don't go online till after Wednesday, so four or five days might lapse without my checking e-mail.

I've solved my phone addiction by deleting all the apps I was addicted to - email, browser - and getting my wife to add parental controls, to limit access even further.

I declare an end to my day by removing my phone from my bedroom and putting it in a phone charging bed.

If you're using technology in a way that opens out conversation in your family, with your friends, with people you care about, I'm for that. But if you're using technology to silence the conversations with the people around you, then you have to create sacred spaces in your home, the kitchen, the dining room, the car.

I probably use email the most. I dunno if that counts as an app. I try to stay off my electronics as much as possible. Real life is happening all around you; you're better off just being a part of it.

It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise.

I don't like the idea of being connected to the world all the time. One should have space and time for oneself.

I try to stay off Twitter.

Give yourself time to digitally detox from your constantly connected life, and keep your phone away from your bed.

You should not be a slave to your telephone. The technology is there to serve you, not the other way around.

I get on social media sometimes. I think it's good to find a balance and to be able to put your phone down.

I think that it's really important to step back and to take breaks as a digital creator because every other kind of platform is kind of set up to have seasons or time off or at least a barrier between creator and consumer. You have these set-up boundaries.

If I'm on my phone and I'm feeling quite negative, maybe I need to not be on my phone so much.

We need to make sure that we are using technology, and technology is not using us.

You can fill up your time with anything that you want. And stuff per se is not bad - technology is awesome; if you use it for the right the reason, it's great.

I think that the balance needs to be restored, and I would note that in the camp in which I am in, one finds libraries, universities, the Internet industry, the manufacturers of digital media, and consumers.

I definitely find my time to be away from my phone because I think that's important, but when it comes to work and friends, I feel like everything is on my phone. I'll, like, leave my phone in my room for a few hours when I need my space.

When I get my weekly screen-time reports from Apple, it's disturbing.

I try not to spend too much time online but at the same time if I didn't, I'd be isolated.

I came off Snapchat. I was done with it... I think I spent too much time on it.