- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social Media Quotes
Connected constantly, still searching for connection.
These social media quotes weigh the isolation many feel despite constant connectivity against sharper defenses of sharing as the medium's essential value. For related takes on modern life, see Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social media has exacerbated a trend whereby people speak with complete authority on every subject, regardless of how informed they are.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read the paper pretty much every day, as well as getting news from the Internet and on TV. But I don't do social media at all; I'm a Luddite from that point of view.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
Through social media, young people are constantly being pinged about a whole slew of potentially better matches or social activities.
- Opinions
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the social media phenomenon, where people's opinions inform so much of what we do with our lives, where the number of 'likes' decides what we should program, I cringe.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
I’m really excited by science and technology and the whole social media thing. I think it’s fascinating. But at the same time I’m wary of bureaucratic systems and managers.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Ricky that the public see, whether it be on screen as a character, in public, or on social media, is very outgoing, and I'm a bit of a class clown. Then those who are closest to me know that I can be very sensitive. I can be quite insecure about myself.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of my fans don't really like it when I respond to people who say things that are trying to be hurtful on social media. But I think it's kind of funny. There's a lot of things that make me laugh, that people would try and say those things. I mean, there's some that I can't even retweet or respond to just because of how bad it is.
- Big Story
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever there's a big story with vast potential to get social media content and find out what's happening, your first object is to prod into that and then test it to see whether it's valid. If you don't do the second part, you're basically a bilge pump.
- Disrupted
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have witnessed a stunning reversal of power between mainstream and social media: The ability to go direct to end users of information through social channels radically disrupted the mainstream news agenda.
- Diplomats
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- Nov 07, 2020
Russia has conducted a coordinated cyberattack on state election systems and hacked critical infrastructure. They have used social media to sow chaos and discord in our society. They have beaten and harassed U.S. diplomats and violated anti-proliferation treaties.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
In an age when many of our citizens casually reveal information about themselves in social media wildly beyond anything imaginable only a decade ago, it would seem to be a useful exercise in civics to re-educate the public about the value and purpose of protecting against unwarranted government intrusion.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I posted the picture of Frank Ocean, I think his little brother called him and said the picture was all over the Internet, so Frank Ocean was like, 'I'm not on social media like that, but it's cool. I'm not mad about it.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost every week, there are stories in the press or on Chinese social media about what even the official Chinese media call 'hot online topics:' stories about how people in a particular village or town used Weibo to expose malfeasance by local or regional authorities.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020