Online Life Quotes

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.

I do all my shopping on the Web. I do much of my research online. I have a blog, too. It is definitely a distraction. It is definitely a blessing. What blessing isn't a distraction, though?

I wouldn't say you have an online life and a real life. I think technology is just mapping and organizing what already exists.

In 2017, I enjoyed my time on the Internet more than doing things in real life.

I live, I shop almost exclusively on the Internet. I've bought cars on the Internet. I watch television, I do everything on it. I even watch my son online.

I'm not so radical about Twitter, but I think it's sometimes dangerous if you think that Twitter is real life.

Oh, I'm online all the time now. I'm not an outdoorsy type.

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

If it wasn't for the Internet, I don't know where I'd be.

I think Twitter is kind of boring, to be honest. To me, it's not even real life.

Online is online. It's a whole other world. It's not actually real life.

Where it gets clear for me about the privacy issue is with my kids because they didn't choose this kind of life. I'm an incredibly open person, though - I'll tell anyone anything.

In our age of digital connection and constantly online life, you might say that two political regimes are evolving, one Chinese and one Western, which offer two kinds of relationships between the privacy of ordinary citizens and the newfound power of central authorities to track, to supervise, to expose and to surveil.

Social media - It's not real life. I only caught the tail end of it in high school. It can be good, and it can be fun, but you can't let it get toxic.

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

Don't live online, live in real time. I'm just astonished how many people live online.

I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always try to make the argument from the perspective of personal pleasure.

We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that.

We already know that spam is a huge downside of online life. If we're going to be spammed on our telephones wherever we go, I think we're going to reject these devices.

I think the Internet is the single greatest revolution to come around in a long time. It's so convenient, it's frightening. I can definitely see why some people don't leave their house anymore.

If you're happy with where the Internet, Facebook, and Twitter have taken you, I'm not the Grinch. Someone called me Sherry Turkle's "evil Luddite twin." I'm not that. I enjoy the bounties of this technology. But if you fear that your connected life is running away with you, read the book, reflect, talk to your family and friends. I think we deserve better than some of the places that we've gotten with this technology.

I think, having grown up with the Internet, things like trolls and the world of having an online life as well as a physical one, it's something I've grown up with.

I chose to share my life online, so I can't really complain about it. There's not much that's off limits.

When it comes to letting kids out into dark alleys, we understand that they have things to steal. We need to understand that in online life, too.