Lane Kiffin Quotes

Don't say anything online that you wouldn't want your mother to read.

If you don't want the world to see something you're sending, stop and think before you put it out there.

As a general rule, I wouldn't put anything in a text or e-mail or on social media that I wouldn't want the whole world to see.

I've had to learn when not to tweet. Like, you learn how to keep your mouth shut? Learn to keep your tweet shut.

I have this really bad habit of doing things on the Internet and forgetting that the whole world is going to see it.

If people do things without thinking them through, that rubs me up the wrong way.

Usually what goes through my mind before I hit the tweet button is, did I misspell or mis-grammatize anything, but also, is this worth polluting the interwebs with for posterity?

Me tweeting sometimes, it's like, I don't even remember what I say. It's just coming off how it's coming off.

A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it. Don't let that happen to you. You've done so much work; you've put in so much effort. Don't let one moment ruin your entire life because you wanted to be funny or you were mad or because you had a mood.

Twitter can get you into trouble.

Your mistakes get to follow you for the rest of your life. I don't know if that's good for people who are young and are just starting to explore the Internet.

The amount of things I want to tweet that I get talked out of? It's probably four times a week. I'm very hotheaded.

It's so easy to look foolish online.

With the Internet and social media being a huge part of today's culture, I think it's super important to promote staying smart online.

And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.

Teenagers try to hide what's really going on in their communication online.

Just as we teach our children how to ride a bike, we need to teach them how to navigate social media and make the right moves that will help them. The physical world is similar to the virtual world in many cases. It's about being aware. We can prevent many debacles if we're educated.

Radical transparency has an enormous impact on our personal lives. We can no longer share thoughts, quips, photos or personal opinions anywhere on the web without being mindful that they may turn up where we least expect it (notably job interviews, divorce proceedings or public media).

I'm too busy thinking what I'm going to say next to remember what I've said, but my staff tells me I'm sometimes funny. Not always on purpose, though.

I think one of the problems I think with a lot of people in high school is that people don't think of the Internet as a real place or a place that has physical consequences in the physical world. This happens with adults who ought to know better, too.

It only takes 140 characters to toss one's character out the window.

I would rather Google other people than Google myself.

Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.

People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.

You have to be really careful with what you put out on social media and who you're talking to online.