Digital Self Quotes

For me, Instagram had become a place where I could image myself the way I found myself.

I use those Bitmojis, the ones you can make look like yourself.

I’d designed my avatar’s face and body to look, more or less, like my own. My avatar had a slightly smaller nose than me, and he was taller. And thinner. And more muscular. And he didn’t have any teenage acne. But aside from these minor details, we looked more or less identical.

I could have a sex change and become a woman, physically. But in some ways that isn't even necessary. Because we live in a time when real life, and virtual life are at parity. We are so used to being creators, and creating versions of ourselves, mainly online, and through our communication technology, that I could very well picture myself as a woman, and consider myself a woman, even if my body would be classified as a male body by a medical examiner.

There's no difference between my persona on Twitter and Instagram and in real life.

Major theme of the book ["Hotels of North America"], from my point of view: what is persona, what is self, in the digital sphere, and/or what is the effect of it on self in a prolonged interaction.

Having an avatar doesn't give you an identity, and having a persona online doesn't make you a personality either.

My body is an avatar.

I'm an invention of the Internet. I'm like, the Internet went away for a few years and designed what the perfect online personality would look like and came back with me.

Whether you're a woman, a transwoman, a person of color, I feel like Instagram is really important for the creation and framing of the self.

Electronic man has no physical body.

With Facebook and Twitter, we're all our own little publicists in a way.

I take selfies just so I know what I look like before I go on cam.

Online, you play at being yourself.

Through technology and social media, we're able to create an identity online that shows people the face that we want them to see and rather than who they really are.

It's pretty cool to see yourself on a video game.

There's more of me on Twitter than there is in real life.

It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.

Approximating authenticity online is not such a tall order. In fact, it may be the very least we can do.

We live in an age where there is a firehose of information, and there is no hierarchy of what is important and what is not. Where the truth is often fashioned through a variety of digital means. Are you your avatar? Who are you in social media? What face do you turn toward the world? How much does it have in common with who you actually are?

You have a certain identity that you present to the world on Facebook, and you have a certain identity that you present with the telephone, and they are different.

The version of me on the Internet, it's not me. It's one portion.

My Google existence is probably larger than a lot of people's.

I find a certain peace by thinking of me in public as sort of an avatar self. You out there can have the avatar me.