Nate Ruess Quotes

I know what Twitter is; I don't use it. I don't use Facebook, so luckily, it does zero to my ego.

I try to stay off Twitter.

I've never really been into social media - I don't have a Facebook; I don't do Twitter or Instagram or anything.

People can live without a Facebook account: my 13-year-old daughter has cancelled her account because it's not cool anymore.

Entire books are being written about the distractions of social media. I don't believe media compel distraction, but I think it's clear that they afford it.

Facebook and Twitter are like a horrible digital plague.

I tend not to look at Twitter in the morning; I try to force myself not to, for time management. I'll look at it on the way to work.

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

I'm on it pretty much all the time. I edit Wikipedia every day, I'm on Facebook, I'm on Twitter, I'm reading the news. During one of the US elections, I actually went through my computer and I blocked myself from looking at the major newspaper sites and Google News because I wasn't getting any work done.

I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.

I admit that I look at my social media when I'm killing time, like on a plane and such. It's just less embarrassing getting caught on Twitter than getting caught playing Candy Crush.

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.

Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.

I deleted my Facebook account when I was 19 because it didn't bring out good qualities in me. I figured, 'Well my mom's got a Facebook. If people want to find me, they can go through her.'

I'm not on social media.

I don't do any social media. I'm not on Facebook or Twitter. I'm just not interested.

I do have Instagram, but I try to avoid going on it too much. Some people are very good at how they use it, and they enjoy that interaction, but I want to be very careful.

I got rid of Twitter, and I got rid of Facebook.

I delete the Twitter app during the season.

You have to be careful that you're not too involved in so much social media that you miss out on real life.

For me, even with my Twitter and Facebook, I'm not on it all the time. I don't Twitter every day.

I'm not really about spending every second on social media. I think there's a lot more useful things you can do with your time.

But it wasn't until I deleted Twitter that everything changed for me and I slowly started to feel normal again.

I never finished looking at Twitter happier than when I've started looking at Twitter. And it's not because of abuse or anything. Even just refreshing what people are saying about you, I don't think is a healthy way to kind of perceive yourself.