Mary H.K. Choi Quotes

The selfie is a powerful tool, but it can also be dangerous, and I am fascinated with the process of it because there is a level of self-monitoring.

I consider myself a selfie specialist.

There are bigger queens of the selfie, but I'm up there.

I tweet myself and do all the Facebook updates. It started off with me wondering whether I was showing off and I was very careful about what I wrote.

I hate profile photos.

A lot of people use social media to share mundane things or for self-glorification. I try to use it to share interesting things with people.

I'm obsessed by Instagram.

I don't use Twitter for bad.

We live in the Facebook era. I think everyone, not just celebrities, have an unprecedented level of self-awareness, of presenting yourself to the world. The truth is, it starts with how you look, and that goes into how you dress.

Instagram is my edit of my life.

I started Instagramming, like, my model life, per se, when I was 14. I got into it as, like, this is an opportunity to be able to show yourself not just as a pretty face but as a personality, which I think models have never been able to have until now.

We've all taken hundreds of selfies until we get the perfect one.

People are obsessed by pictures these days. They just want to say they met someone, have the evidence.

I never had to do anything specific to craft my 'image.' I wanted people to know that I was a goofball, that I didn't take myself too seriously, and that I love what I do. On my Twitter and Instagram, whenever I can, I try and show myself. I'm not trying to be an Instagram model.

If you think I'm just another pretty face, read my Facebook updates, read my articles, read the interviews I've done and judge for yourself.

I'm kind of obsessed with Instagram. I like the fact that you can really express yourself. Obviously, there are limits, but you can always show a lot of your personality and day to day things that no one would ever know.

When I joined Instagram, I began sharing my raw photos along with my raw and honest thoughts and feelings.

I'm very specific about what I put out on social media about myself. But that's also why I like social media: because it feels like the only thing that I have to control my own image.

I'm a young woman who lives in a world of social media; I'll post boring things too!

We are living in the time of self-creation and you can become your own star and this is the essential set that it needs to take that selfie that's going to take you to that next place.

I think at all social networks, be it Facebook or Twitter or whatever it is, there's an ecosystem that exist there. But there's also an ego system that exists there.

The future is in photos for social media. More and more people are not reading, so I try to attach a photo to most Tweets.

Originally, technology was pretty clearly on the side of introversion. It allowed introverts to connect with people, to express their ideas in a less stimulating way: you're sitting alone behind a computer. But I'm starting to think that the pressure to self-present constantly online is becoming so extreme.

I write my own tweets.

The problem most people make with their media presence is they're trying to craft a media presence as opposed to just consistently publishing who they are.