Social Media Mania Quotes

It got to the point where I would wake up at 6 A.M. and go on my phone and tweet something and have it be really good and get lots of retweets... and then I would wake up, because it was actually a dream; I would wake up with my hand holding nothing - an air phone.

Stand in my lobby at 5:30 P.M., and there is no one who gets out of the lift who is not on a gadget. No one is talking to each other. I get in the lift and say, 'Hello,' and everyone's head is down tapping on a screen.

I was so against social media for such a long time, but now I can't live without it.

I remember when people called Facebook a fad.

Facebook has created a rash of mental zombies in a meme-feeding frenzy.

Silicon Valley has a lot of noise, a lot of hype. People are very excited about all of the Facebook stuff, Facebook applications. It's just been a huge hype over the last year when actually... there isn't really that much value.

Celebrity is a pathological sickness of the culture. Narcissists on screen being consumed by narcissists off-screen.

I have often felt the worlds of social media and the Internet are like a weird dreamscape. Even physically, when you are looking at your phone, you are out of it.

I was an early adopter of everything from Myspace to Twitter, and I think they're just fads, like CB radio.

I was a huge Internet junkie.

When I was young, I was crazy in the head on social media.

Every day I am being told to sign up for Tumblr, Yammer, Friendfeed, Plaxo, Last.fm, ping.fm or the hot social-media tool du jour that happened to get mentioned on Mashable.com. It is like a social-media arms race. Each one of these new tools is like a cool new night club. Hot today, gone tomorrow, replaced with something else.

I'm just not entirely sure how to gauge the faddiness of the Internet.

Facebook and Twitter are like a horrible digital plague.

Everybody seems to be wasting their time online. There is such a narcissistic attitude. It's such a strange world.

'In Another Time' talks about our addiction to technology.

I'm a social media addict.

I've got more than half of Mumbai addicted to the Internet.