Ernest Cline Quotes

On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.

I sound like an old man when I talk about the Internet, but I am actually worried about what it's doing to our brains and our sense of connection.

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

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.

To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shortening attention spans, the physical cost of sedentary 'surfing' and the potential for coarsening discourse as millions of web pages compete for attention by appealing to our base instincts.

I try to ignore the Internet. It's an evil, evil place.

We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.

Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community.

Every pastor, youth pastor, and every parent is in competition with the Internet and the information it is spreading. Most young people don't get their news from CNN or CBS; they get it from bloggers.

Isn't there a danger with Tweeting, like drunk dialing? Isn't there a drunk Tweeting danger?

My kids are in front of the computer 24x7 despite having all the parental control. There is no way to stop the flow of information. The flow of information is too fast and too much.

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

You can't regulate what these kids are being exposed to on the Internet. It's so way out of control. All you can do is just try to talk to your own kids.

The older you get, the more you realize you cannot win on the Internet.

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.

Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years.

When I think about it, I do start to worry about this whole social media thing. It does make me uncomfortable; kids should be out, living their lives, getting out and enjoying themselves.

I think that Internet as such, as a phenomenon is worth prohibiting because it gives nobody anything good.

The Internet has played a major role in undermining public morality.

I get concerned when I see kids on their phones. They don't read enough anymore, anything longer than a tweet.

The Internet, in general, I find troubling. The anonymity has made us all meaner and dumber. This thing that was supposed to bring us closer together, I see it doing the opposite.

I've been reading a lot about what the Internet does to our brains.

The Internet is undermining moral values.

Kids are growing up with a bombardment of information through technology.

I am of the bridge generation that remembers life before social media permeated everything but cannot imagine life without it now.