Patrick Collison Quotes

Kids are plugged into some sort of electronic medium 44 hours per week.

Twitter means all my friends are in my computer. All my ideas are in my computer. I can do whatever I want in there; I'm kind of... bionic.

I support any means to make real connections so long as that it does lead really quickly to real connections. It's the long-term online friendships and relationships that start to get a little hairy.

It's amazing how directly you can connect with people via social media.

I hate the thought of my children being glued to a screen. Children only play on computers all day because their parents let them.

I grew up with a computer, and many of my friends were people I met online.

The future of television is not on television but online. A majority of us are turning to our computers and mobile devices for news and entertainment, Millennials especially.

We live in a world where many of us have a lot of friends on Facebook but yet we have lost human connection.

I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.

I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that.

In this age of omniconnectedness, words like 'network,' 'community' and even 'friends' no longer mean what they used to. Networks don't exist on LinkedIn. A community is not something that happens on a blog or on Twitter. And a friend is more than someone whose online status you check.

Facebook isn't helping you make new connections, Facebook doesn't develop new relationships, Facebook is just trying to be the most accurate model of your social graph. There's a part of me that feels somewhat bored by all of this.

I actually feel like I have developed friendships through Twitter, people that I've worked with I can kind of keep up with them. I've totally turned a corner. I get it. And Instagram.

I do watch a lot of YouTube.

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

I'm not on any social media. I know people who have met on Twitter and through Facebook. I had a friend, someone liked her photos on Instagram, and they started direct messaging each other and went out on a date! That's so foreign to me.

My generation is so tied up in television, computers, and video games. When we were born, MTV was already there. It was normal.

I do like to get away from technology. I still read a lot. Having said that, most of my reading is on computers or a Kindle or an iPad.

I think in this world of social media, we will be lost if we don't have an online account.

I feel like kids are getting more and more used to communicating through a glass screen than they are face-to-face, and that worries me a little.

The Internet has transformed the landscape of children's social lives, moving cliques from lunchrooms and lockers to live chats and online bulletin boards and intensifying their reach and power.

People are not just going to bars and meeting people; they're connecting through social media.

I am not a sportsperson. I used to spend all my time in front of a computer.

You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.

I'm opposed to a lot of the time that we as a civilization have come to spend looking at screens. For my money, life is much delicious damn near everyplace but inside that screen.