Social Media Quotes

“Though civil discourse may be especially challenging to facilitate during fractured times, the process itself has stood the test of time for centuries.”
― Milan Kordestani, I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World

“From where I stand, hidden, watching them through the glass, they are the picture of the perfect family. But I know better. What people show the world is rarely the whole truth, especially these days when everything must be curated and cropped, filtered and brightened. Real life is messy and complicated. Ugly.”
― Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

“They lose themselves in pixels and scrolls.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“When you let cellphones, TV, Internet and social media raise your child. Your child will love and live for drama. Everything good or bad will be entertainment to them. They won’t know where to draw the line. They won't take things seriously. They would be Inspired by lies and end up living a lie themselves.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“You scroll through a window of coffins. Think about it, each person fits in a 1080 x 1080 frame. It feels like a digital coffin to me. And don’t get me started on hashtags. They are like prison bars, locking in ideas behind a tag that loses is relevant until only the next inmate walks in.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“The dopamine, the deceitful dopamine, gives them a false sense of value.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“She is left empty. Hollow. All of those likes, comments and meaningless nights with men who do not even remember her name leave her shattered.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“If you want attention or engagement on social media. Say anything about men or to men. The word men is used as a trigger these days.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“We are part of the problem. If, When we see something wrong. We are not doing anything about it. We just talk and laugh about it.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Do your content but respect people boundaries and privacy.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Everything is content these days, but I think there should be a law that forbids people from using their spouses, partners, family and children as content to further their own careers. Getting engagement, trend or to get attention. Let kids be kids. Kids or children don’t have privacy anymore. Their whole life is out there online without their concern. Old people and family don’t have privacy. There is no privacy anymore. Everywhere you go someone is holding a camera or video capturing you without your concern. They make you participate in what their doing unlawfully. Some even provoke you so they can get your reactions on tape.

You should not put someone online who doesn’t want to be online. This also go to pranks as well. Internet never forgets. Once something is out there. It can make their lives hard in future. Most of the things online are taken out of context and are edited to suite a certain narrative. Do your content but respect people boundaries and privacy.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“7. Thou must share ideas - and spread the word
The bookshop that offers a box at the till with a sign saying "Free books! Help yourself" will always win favour over its competitors.
In my research for The Art of Coorie it became clear that the giving and swapping of goods and labour in creative industries functions as a crucial currency.
There is an understandable desire to want to keep nice things to ourselves.
But isn't there also a responsibility to share what we find?
Social media fosters a need to tell the world what we are doing at all times, especially if it supports the notion that what we are doing is exciting.”
― Gabriella Bennett, The Art of Coorie: How to Live Happy the Scottish Way

“The problem about social media is that.There are campaigns to promote someone and there are campaigns to demote, tarnish or destroy someone. People are paid to say things they don’t believe in, or they mean. It is all about the money. Choose to support someone statement or post at your own peripheral.Choose to take everything with a pinch of salt. Don’t be too quick in judging others, because of what you heard about them on social media. Good or bad it might be a campaign.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“E is for Earning money from letting the worst assholes secretly screw with everyone else.”
― Jaron Lanier

“Be careful if you find yourself in a place where only acceptable truths are allowed. Taboos are a sign of insecurity. Only fragile castles need to be protected by the highest of walls. The best answers are discovered not by eliminating competing answers, but by engaging with them. And engagement happens in groups built, not on taboos and dogma, but on a foundation that celebrates diverse thinking.”
― Ozan Varol, Awaken Your Genius: Escape Conformity, Ignite Creativity, and Become Extraordinary

“Maybe if we all stopped getting so caught up in taking sixty selfies before we post one or reshooting the same video twenty times till it looks flawless, we'd be better off. Life isn't perfect. Why should we pretend that it is online?”
― Jen Calonita, The Real Z

“The problem we are giving sick people wrong attention. We should be giving them help instead of giving them attention. That is why we have a sick society. Everyone is doing weird things or acting weird to get attention.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Choose not to be intimidated by people on social media, because those who can fake it better are considered the real ones. Choose to do your own thing no matter what, because that is not only a real thing, but it is your reality.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Responsible and humane use of language in public is a skill that requires cultivation. It is not something we are born knowing, nor is it something we are all taught, though it is certainly something anyone willing to develop epistemic virtue can learn.”
― Bonnie Kristian, Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community

“What for?' I say.
'To build her profile,' Julie answers, hands on hips in high-performance black fabric. 'A lovely, pretty girl writing her own songs. She'd get thousands of likes.
'But what's the point?' I go on. 'You can't cash in the likes at Coles.”
― Emily Gale, I Am Out with Lanterns

“Twitter gives hundreds of idiots the opportunity to speak when once they only spoke rubbish at a bar after five pints of lager. - Chris Geiger”
― Chris Geiger

“Our biggest oppressor is our mind. There results of it are seen on black on black hate. Look how black people treat other black people when they have power or in higher positions. Look at how poor black look at those successful black people. They wish and pray for their downfall. They want to destroy everything good they have. We are a jealousy nation. The jealousy we have for each other is what started witchcraft in the olden days. Today we still using witchcraft in a modern way by using technology, internet and Social media instead of using traditional herbs. We use technology, internet and Social media to kill each other and to destroy one another. To bully and humiliate one another. Until we change our mentality. We will forever be slaved by poverty. We will forever be slaved by our mind and thinking even thou constitutionally we are free.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“John Della Volpe, the director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, spoke to hundreds of young people for his 2022 book,Fight: How Gen Z Is Channeling Their Fear and Passion to Save America.When asked to describe the U.S., he found, young Millennials in the mid-2010s used words like “diverse,” “free,” and “land of abundance.” A few years later, Gen Z’ers instead said “dystopic,” “broken,” and “a bloody mess.”
― Jean M. Twenge, Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future

“Cameras are supposed to help you relive a moment, but if you never live the moment in the first place, because you are too busy taking pictures, how will you relive it!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Break your addiction of likes and share,
Outgrow the lure of all golden snare.
Focus on your walk, not on outside talk,
Sun's glow always makes the vermin glare.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Now @mark zuckerberg turned into a world's biggest pimp, because fb reels and insta reels have become the world's biggest virtual Prostitution brothel”
― Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"

“Social media has been the largest platform on the internet to disperse optical illusions that we have seen thus far. GOD forbid there become more... with editing capabilities, photoshop, filters, CGI, AI, green screens, backdrops which are all available when curating, crafting to create and alter whatever reality you want. Yet Social media is the place where people choose to come and go, for information about you. Make that make sense.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“Social media can distort our minds, so it's wise to limit its usage and embrace the real beauty of the world instead.”
― Matheesha Prathapa

“Facebook should start giving a brothel license
as fb insta reels become a place of virtual prostitution and showcase of Nudity.”
― Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"

“They never delete a thing. It just keeps growing and growing, consuming our lives and turning them into more of itself, an endless stream of inane updates, political rants, selfies, memes... And all that dreck’s just gonna stick around, what... forever?”
― Cliff Jones Jr., Dreck