You can't disengage yourself from that game if you are completely unaware of what people out there might be doing, you're just going to be tripped up, you're going to find yourself continually at a disadvantage.
You will not even have enough time to go online and download all the patches to your computer before it is infected.
The Internet gave us access to everything, but it also gave everything access to us.
The Internet is not nearly as fail-safe as the phone system.
My only window into the Internet is Twitter because I am afraid of the Internet. I need my mom to hold my hand if I'm going to read anything about me.
Everybody knows if it's on the Internet, some brilliant hacker can get at it.
The Internet opens up so many doors. It's a phenomenal tool for education but also a way for people to be scary and dangerous. We're living in a world where we can be hacked and exposed.
One of the difficult things, especially about blogging, is that you put all of your personal out there, into the political. And what's been difficult, for me at least, is trying to keep some of the personal for myself.
The other day, I saw a blog post where a woman wrote about why she was unfollowing me and that made me feel incredibly self-conscious and embarrassed about my tweets. I also feel more exposed now that I've become a more visible writer but then I try to get over all that and just use Twitter the way I want.
All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that's bad.
The best thing you can do if you had put something on the internet and watched it spiral out of control is be nice to yourself. Especially when you get on the internet, you have opened yourself up to everybody's opinion, and not everybody's going to be nice. And if you can at least be nice to yourself, that'll help you so much - though it's easier said than done.
I'm not big on awareness about what's going on online but usually if you do too much online stuff then you usually bump into something that hurts.
I don't immerse myself in the Internet chatter because it opens you up to a whole source of danger.
You have to assume once you go online, anything you put there can be made public. Yet while you're online, you feel like it's a private, sacred space. But you're really broadcasting to the world.
If I could edit Google Images, then I wouldn't be as scared of the Internet.
The nature of the internet is that you don't know who is behind the screen.
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.
If I didn't like you, I could take any or all of what I found and invent a context that lost you your job, your relationships, your degree. People are so vulnerable online and they don't realize it. That is scary to me.
