Mark Getty Quotes

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.

The use of the Internet, the use of Twitter, the way protest movements developed... This is a different world.

Social media has changed our lives forever. Some continue to reject social media, refusing to become one of the sheep, but you just can't avoid it.

It's a new era with regard to social media. It's just something that we have to adapt to and accept.

I think the advent of the Internet gave us all a big boost, because by the time the Internet became mainstream and you could get it in your home, a lot of us were used to dealing in fan culture, writing to magazines or anything at the back of comic books.

While the digital age has done so much to improve our world, it has dramatically changed our social structure, often further isolating us from each other.

Social media is so influential now.

Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways.

We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.

It's amazing how directly you can connect with people via social media.

The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data - has rapidly become a widespread reality.

We do live in this age of new media.

Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.

Twitter became a major place to find out what was breaking on the Internet. Facebook became a place to share links. Social media really grew up.

Social media is its own sort of thing: Twitter and Facebook have changed the way everyone perceives everything.

I don't send and receive messages on Snapchat; I never have. Stories is the only feature I use. I think of them becoming a more dynamic social network, and I think it's great.

Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate in an instant almost anywhere. Gone is the slow old letter - itself a monologue, a sort of considered performance of best self - and in its place is the e-mail, the text, the SMS, the tweet.

Technology is changing the way we interact as humans.

Real social situations are taking a back seat to social media.

People go on Snapchat - I don't understand it. It's the first app I felt, 'Oh no, I'm out of touch with burgeoning technology. I'm not 16!'

I enjoy social media so much, and I love, love, love Twitter.

People don't know what to do when writing a story with teens that takes place now - they think you have to make a bunch of references to Facebook.

The Internet has created so many niche audiences that when millions or even thousands of people can be on the same page it's a truly special thing.

My generation was born to work with social media - it's a natural part of our communication with the world.

I think technology and smartphones created a huge paradigm shift that we can't fully comprehend, and I think in a lot of ways things are changing faster than we can really process.