Digital Burnout Quotes

Fifteen years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now the real world is an escape from the internet.

When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

I deliberately decided not to go on Twitter. I've read about how much stress it can cause. I don't think it's healthy.

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.

I'm not on Twitter, nor Facebook, or LinkedIn, or any of these systems, because they suck in your soul and they will not let you go. Try to get out of any of them, and you will see. They are just like some religions where apostasy is punished by death.

I used to go on all these blogs and all these websites which I really don't like to go and read about at all, and I couldn't care less anymore.

Technology promises to let us do anything from anywhere with anyone. But it also drains us as we try to do everything everywhere. In a surprising twist, relentless connection leads to a new solitude.

I turned off my Google alerts in 2009 as I learnt that following yourself on the Internet very quickly becomes unhealthy.

In barely one generation, we've moved from exulting in the time-saving devices that have so expanded our lives to trying to get away from them - often in order to make more time. The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.

But it wasn't until I deleted Twitter that everything changed for me and I slowly started to feel normal again.

When you work online, staying on the Internet more than you need to feels like being at the office after hours.

One day I hope to not have a Twitter, to be sick enough that I don't have to use the Internet.

Maybe some day they'll find me behind the computer, just bones and cobwebs.

Every once in a while I need a break from Instagram; like six hours long.

It doesn't make me very happy to be on my computer all the time. I've never been drawn to that world.

I'm done. Done with social media. Done.