Jimmy Wales Quotes

I don't have a Twitter or a Facebook, but that doesn't mean I'm any more productive than the rest of the world.

I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.

We're all posting and clicking and sharing, but we're not devoting enough attention to get anything meaningful from it all.

I completely understand social media as a method of promotion and digesting information, but it just seems like a colossal waste of time to me, and there's a million other ways I'd rather waste my time.

We're looking at dozens, sometimes hundreds of things every day in articles, videos, and we never look at them again. Even if we do like them, even if we tweet them out to all of our followers on Twitter, we don't return to it.

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

[W]e spend so much time staring at our phones and screens, texting and tweeting about how busy we are, we no longer have the time to consume any primary material. We rely instead on the casual observations of our “friends” or the people we “follow” […].

I hear the same anxieties over and over again. Everything is too fast; everything is too precarious. We have more access than ever to the people we are trying to reach, thanks to social media and mobile technology, and more information than we know what to do with.

I'm on Twitter, Facebook. There's a lot you can do with it, and it's great to keep in touch. I try to throw a few things out on Twitter every day.

What am I going to tweet about? My sneakers? Or, 'I have 140,000 friends on Facebook.' What does that even mean? I find it to be a waste of time.

I spend a lot of time on social media, I'm on Facebook every day; I'm on Twitter every day.

I get mad at myself when I get news from Twitter before I get it from a regular news source. Then I'm off to a bad start: getting the second-hand, filtered experience all day long.

I try to stay off Twitter.

Facebook and Twitter are like a horrible digital plague.

So much of what we decide to carry in our stores is based on what we hear through the Dylan's Candy Bar Facebook Page and Twitter feeds.

I'm hopelessly addicted to Instagram.

I felt lost in endless spools of social media. All the while, emails by the thousands were piling up, phone calls were getting lost in the mix, and messages from the most important people in my life were getting drowned out in the din. I was more responsive to comments on Instagram than to my own closest friends and family.

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.

We are raising a generation of children who may not know how to mobilize without Facebook.

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

I'm becoming more and more of a social media participant, so of course I can always be found everywhere from Twitter to Insta to Facebook.

I don't get Twitter or social media. I really don't understand it or read it. I see it as a distraction.

I'm obsessed with reality TV anyway - I use my knowledge of that stuff to make jokes on Twitter and Facebook to get more people to sign up to be fans.

With social networks these days, everyone needs to know everything all the time. But the problem is, people are so used to short snippets of information that no one has any attention span anymore. I don't, anyway.

I delete the Twitter app during the season.