Alan Patricof Quotes

I was a huge Internet junkie.

I'm an Internet junkie.

Well, c'mon, everyone is a Facebook addict!

I shift between Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat probably 250 times a day, which probably isn't healthy, but I'm unfortunately addicted.

Social media can be so addictive.

Facebook has created a rash of mental zombies in a meme-feeding frenzy.

Twitter is crack for media addicts.

We're so connected, kind of ever-presently, with technology now. People are carrying their phones with them and looking at the screen so much.

Texting is addicting. Once you get emotionally involved with constant outside stimulation assaulting your brain, it is hard to stop looking at your machine every two minutes. Without rapid fire words appearing on a screen, you feel bored, not part of the action.

I didn't have any vices before the Internet. There are a lot of cracks in the day, moments where you don't know what to do next, so you have a little hole where you look at your phone. You want something that will mean you're not alone in that moment.

Our generation, unfortunately, is stuck to our phones - and, like, Twitter - constantly, which I have no problem with. I'd say we're not describing the children of America or anything like that, but there is something to take from it: It is kind of sad how we can't go thirty minutes without checking our phone.

I'm a social media addict.

When you're directed by social media, I think it's very easy to lose a sense of agency. And you can see it when you go to any subway station, you walk down any street in a city, you will see 70-80 percent of people staring into their phones as they walk or stand.

Hi, my name is Alexandra, and I'm a netaholic.

It's easy to blame technology for what we perceive to be a vast disconnect between people. We're so wrapped up in social media, texting, online dating - in many ways, we're addicted to our devices.

I'm hopelessly addicted to Instagram.

Our attention spans have been reduced by the immediate gratification provided by smartphones and social media.

The iPad is becoming the babysitter… Silicon Valley programs these things to be addictive.

I have an iPhone, but that's just because I need to take pictures of my 5- and 8 1/2-year-old kids. It becomes quite easily an addiction for people who aren't even aware that they're addicted.

I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.

It's the smartphone that has turned adults and children alike into tech-addicted zombies, dumbly swiping and jabbing at their screens, oblivious to the world around them.

Everybody seems to be wasting their time online. There is such a narcissistic attitude. It's such a strange world.

Some people are on their darn computers all day long.

Social media is like crack-immediately gratifying and hugely addictive.

I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading.