Digital Consequences Quotes

While technology is important, it's what we do with it that truly matters.

I have to wonder if some part of the difficulty in dealing with the repercussions of your actions on the Internet is just that we were not ever really built for being able to conceive of a global community of anything.

There are positive things that come of social media as well as negative.

I am much less concerned with whatever it is technology may be doing to people that what people are choosing to do to one another through technology. Facebook's reduction of people to predictively modeled profiles and investment banking's convolution of the marketplace into an algorithmic battleground were not the choices of machines.

Twitter does have an effect on everything - things you put out there, they are out there for good.

Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

Social media is just a platform. What some people decide to do with it results in something good or bad.

The internet is a great thing with great virtues, but it is helping break up America. This is a problem that can’t be solved, only managed.

That's one of the perks of my job, is getting to see what the Internet does.

Everything a teenager does, says or looks at, however transitory, contributes to an aggregated virtual self that might one day have consequences for its real-life counterpart. How many of us would keep all our relationships and reputations intact if every transgression, mistake or youthful folly was held in public view?

Every time I say something that's extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet.

There's no social media or Googling yourself. You only have to do it once to learn never to do it again.