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Quotations about Social Media
& Social Technology
Welcome to my page of quotations about social media and social technology.
The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom. ~Jon Stewart
Laying in bed this morning contemplating how amazing it would be if somehow Oscar Wilde and Mae West could twitter from the grave. ~Dita Von Teese, @DitaVonTeese, tweet, 2009
I believe that social media's greatest gift is in providing every person the forum to be themselves, speak their heart and soul. ~Jeb Dickerson, @JebDickerson, tweet, 2009
Every bit of software wants you to be "social." What ever happened to being grumpy and alone in your writer's fugue? ~Doug Green, @douggreen, tweet, 2009
On Twitter we get excited if someone follows us. In real life we get really scared and run away.
The only social networking I did this weekend was with my family. I actually let the battery on my laptop completely die. ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, @wildthyme, tweet, 2009, betsygarmon.com
A blogger is constantly looking over his shoulder, for fear that he is not being followed. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, are merging. The new program will be called YouTwitFace. ~Author unknown
I've been scanning some negatives from the 80's. It's like a retro #Instagram. ~Andy Lee, @andrewdotlee, tweet, 2012
It's so strange to think that before Facebook all this nonsense just stayed in people's heads.
#undernocircumstances shud sum1 feel its ok 2 tlk lik this. You have 140 characters. Use them and stop typing like you're illiterate. ~@Lord_Voldemort7, tweet, 2010
Don't worry, I know what I'm doing — I saw this on Pinterest.
Anyone remember analogue Twitter? It used to cost me a small fortune in stamps. ~Andy Lee, @andrewdotlee, tweet, 2012
Twitter is just a multiplayer notepad. ~Ben Maddox, @benwmaddox, tweet, 2008
Twitter as a personalized graffiti wall; pithy aphorisms simmer in the subconscious, bubble up in a new blaze of dayglow calligraphy. ~David J. Beard (1947–2016), @Raqhun, tweet, 2007
You look beautiful today. Is that a new Instagram filter you're wearing?
This looked easier on YouTube.
I don't think that memes what you think it memes.
Sometimes I imagine a get-together where I introduce my family to my blogger friends and my blogger friends introduce my family to me. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Let's get one thing clear: I'm not gonna explain my tweets. The whole point of Twitter is that there's too few characters to explain stuff. ~Corey Mohler, @existentialcoms, tweet, 2015
A 140 space buffer
I fear isn't even enough for
a couple of lines
of the jingle-ing kind
and a lim'rick'll never be stuffed there.
~David J. Beard (1947–2016), @Raqhun, tweet, 2008
Instead of organizing and cleaning my house, I pin ideas on how to organize and clean my house. The irony is not lost on me. ~Author unknown
Dear YouTube: I think it's pretty safe to assume that we all want to 'Skip This Ad.'
I think I'll buy a selfie stick so whenever I see someone taking a selfie I can hit them with it.
I'm a woofer, not a tweeter; a writer, not a telegrapher; an essayist, not an aphorist. ~Richard E. Turner (1937–2011), The Grammar Curmudgeon, a.k.a. "The Mudge," @Grammarmudge, tweet, 2009, sites.google.com/site/grammarmudge
A bird's song is beautiful, but if it never stops you feel like shooting it. ~Laura Ainsley, @ThinkEvenBigger, tweet, 2011, on over-zealous tweeting
I love Pinterest. It's electronic hoarding without the clutter.
The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace.
There is no greater adventure than a magical journey through last night's drunk texts.
Facebook is now hiring. No need to apply, we already have all your details.
You're only as old as your most recent selfie looks.
What's this LinkedIn? Is that like Facebook for old people?
Texting with my mom.
I don’t think that emoji means
What she thinks it does.
~Kate Miller-Wilson, "Texting With Mom," 20 Funny Haiku Poems, YourDictionary.com, 2020
Warning: the internet may contain traces of nuts. ~Author unknown
Using Twitter like a dandelion uses the wind... Spreading messages, not exactly knowing where they might go, some taking roots and blossoming, some making a adventurous journey through the air but not falling on fertile ground. So what? A process of beauty and joy. ~Detlef Cordes,
A blog is a message in a bottle, both in purpose and likely readership. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
A blogger is an average person who happens to have a need to count his friends every half hour. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
May your life someday be as awesome as you pretend it is on Instagram. ~Internet blessing
Happy National Selfie Day to someone whose face I've seen more than my own.
Blogs seem to have two magnetic poles, one attracting friends, the other repulsing relatives. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Now, I am an optimist by nature, but I'm beginning to think we are screwed as a species. Social media is gonna be our meteor. ~The Resident, "Viral," 2022, written by Tianna Majumdar-Langham, Chris Bessounian, Mika Frank, and Michael Billington
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