Online Discourse Quotes

Posting a brag, humble or otherwise, and then waiting for people to respond is the equivalent of having a conversation in which all you do is wait for your turn to speak.

Personally, I don't have a Twitter account. I like to be in control of the way the stand up of Stewart Lee is perceived, I don't want to have to engage with individual people. Also, when I do look at it, loads of factually inaccurate things about me are written.

Social media is really not for conversations. There are people that you can meet and talk to on it, but it was not created for that. People wanted things that were soap boxes, where they could say what they wanted, and they don't have to respond to anyone else.

The Internet is a cauldron of anger every day, every year, election year or not, with unemployment at 10 percent or at two percent. It isn't exactly a good index of what's happening.

I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the least of which being the almost Democrat vs. Republican mentality of readers on the Internet.

Blogs are for anoraks who couldn't get published any other way.

Twitter is a cesspool but I find I can ignore most of the cess most of the time.

My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.

Somebody told me, “Twitter hates tabloids, but Twitter is constantly acting like a tabloid, repeating the mistakes of the things we’re hoping to better.” Twitter wanted to become a more egalitarian justice system, but instead it became a draconian one.

I'm a firm believer in... just because these guys are professional athletes or whatever, everybody's going to have an opinion on something, and not everybody's going to get along. I've had my words with fans on Twitter too.

The country would be a lot better off if we stopped having comment sections. And if we got rid of Twitter.

I'll read on Twitter, 'Do you still do music?' Music is all I do, all day.

With social media, there is a fashion that we speak louder than we think. It has just become a platform where people just judge and spread anger and hate.

My feeling is, Twitter's free. If people want to have a political discourse with me on Twitter, and they disagree with me, I've got all the time in the world for that. It's when it gets nasty that I have problems.

Even if I'm not so into the specific celebrities who are sharing images of themselves looking "bad," I think it's an amazing contribution to the conversations about beauty that we have online.

I try not to read blogs. The comments are extremely harsh.

On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.

I used to think Medium was a pretty pure place and then the MAGA hats started showing up here too.

The court of public opinion is open 24 hours a day.

Norman Parke needs to stay off of Twitter before he gets himself in a fight he can't win.

People feel emboldened to say things on the Internet they wouldn't in person.

When I tweet, I'm mostly preaching to the choir.

People bring up tweets that I don't even remember, and my general response is, 'I don't know if I said it. I probably said it.' It's just part of what I do.

The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.

While I worry about an erosion of truth, I don’t think people want to live in a world where you can only say things that tech companies decide are 100 percent true.