Social Media
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- The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.
- We post photos of the Halloween costumes and the mustaches made of cupcake frosting. We don’t record the tantrums?and that’s as it should be. But we shouldn’t mistake that for reality. It’s stagecraft.
- Paul Revere had a broad network, a fast horse, and a catchy phrase far less than one hundred and forty characters: ‘The British are coming!’
- The more we live in public, the more we need to develop some sort of mercy for those who briefly let the dark parts of themselves slip out, particularly when they’re truly sorry afterward.
- The entire world has become this Dickensian series in which you are not visited by three ghosts but by eight million ghosts. I feel as if I see things about people that I don't necessarily want to see, and then its lodged like a piece of corn in my subconscious.
- Paul Revere had a broad network, a fast horse, and a catchy phrase far less than one hundred and forty characters: 'The British are coming!
- We post photos of the Halloween costumes and the mustaches made of cupcake frosting. We don't record the tantrums?and that's as it should be. But we shouldn't mistake that for reality. It's stagecraft.
- The male majority on Wikipedia is actually a symptom of a larger issue: the creation of gendered spaces on the Internet
- Twitter is a kind of verbalization of people yelling at their television sets or gnashing their teeth at the newspaper.
- Nuance doesn’t get retweeted.
- The Internet is the great equalizer.The technology which emanated from the Silicon Valley of California has more potential to ameliorate social inequality than any development in the history of the world, including the industrial revolution.
- The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It's much more interesting that way.