Vignesh Shivan Quotes

It's a whole new world out here. The online world is like a blackboard on which, when you write, the whole world can see - and I'm thrilled about this development. I want to make full use of it.

I love the efficiency of the Internet. If I come across something that I want to share right away, I can do it.

I don't think much about the digital world... because I am in the analog world!

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

Everything is so tech now; everyone is so connected that way.

The younger generation has embraced Twitter and Facebook massively, and they spend most of their time on there. So if I want to reach new fans or keep in touch with my current, I try to use Twitter and Facebook as much as possible.

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don't pretend that if Facebook didn't exist, that this wouldn't even be possible. Of course, it would have.

Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.

I saw a report on the news: 'Peter Dinklage tweeted... ' What? You know, I don't need any of that stuff. I got an email account; that's all I need.

I avoid Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, and if I need to communicate with someone, I email direct.

The distance between me and my readers is the Internet. I can communicate with them and respond to every email I get or every mention on Twitter.

I find it amusing that I'm on the Internet now, because I've criticized it, but mainly I've criticized it on the basis of, 'What are you going to do with it?'

At the risk of sounding like that old guy in 'Gran Torino' telling those 'young punks' to 'get off my lawn,' it's gotten to the point that whenever I hear somebody talking about Twitter or twittering or tweeting, it just makes my little tummy want to hurl.

Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks.

I am a little curmudgeonly about new media.

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

Twitter and those platforms just didn't feel natural to me.

Twitter is an extension of every dumb thought I have, firing it off - Instagram is a little more methodical.

No, I don't actually look at Twitter.

I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing.

Twitter is essential to me because I wake up and check it religiously. It's a way I communicate with my fan base.

I don't have a Twitter account.

Twitter is incredibly useful. It's a great example of how the Internet is changing the way we engage with information and text. Above all else, this change in the nature of engagement is fascinating for me as a writer.

The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.

I went from rotary phone to Twitter. And was appalled at the notion.