Charlie Brooker Quotes

I think social media is a great place to share ideas and to connect with other people.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

I'm not very active on social media. I'm not on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram, or anything like that. But I think it's wonderful that they're out there. They're fantastic. I have a lot of siblings and friends that use it, and it's great for them. It's such a connected world.

While the digital age has done so much to improve our world, it has dramatically changed our social structure, often further isolating us from each other.

We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that.

My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.

Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so.

I don't have any answers as to whether the Internet is a good or a bad thing, but it's certainly an important thing for the novel because novels are so much about communication, and when communication changes, the novel has to change.

Society is causing us to talk less and interact more digitally. So, I'd be remiss if I didn't believe that businesses will have to follow that same path.

I hate the modern day the kids live in. I don't think it's very cool. Everyone's interconnected.

I think [social media] is fundamentally restructuring the whole nature of information and how it's expressed in America.

Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool for solving social problems, just as it is a tool for making money, finding lost relatives, receiving medical advice, or, come to that, trading instructions for making bombs.

These younger kids - I think growing up with social media, they're just savvy.

I actually quite like [social media]. It's spontaneous, you don't really have to commit to it and I enjoy the interaction. Also, I have never sworn on there, not once.

I think there's been a gigantic shift in the way we talk to each other, and the way that we communicate with each other. So as a filmmaker, the stuff's always been really interesting to me, and I sort of considered a lot of my films horror films, the ones that were relationship dramas, because I feel like it was very easy to look at modern communication and the Internet and cell phones and all that stuff as horror movies, basically.

I feel like social media is a great thing. I try not to go on it too much.

I think social media is a revolutionary phenomenon all in itself.

I used to think Twitter was a waste of time and sort of ran counter to my ability to be productive and to write and now Twitter feels like a really cool part of the creative experience.

I think Twitter is a fabulous tool. Crowd-sourcing by Twitter is useful in getting early warnings.

I think before Twitter people didn't think that way, not in any sort of meaningful or specific way, so what I'm trying to say, if we're trying a bunch of stuff, a lot of cool and great social stuff, a lot of platform stuff, then some of it will stick, and some of it will be junked over. Some of it will be just like the cell phone, you can't imagine not having it.

Social media has changed everything in our world. The collective humanity, as it was, has such a voice these days, and that's never really existed before.

We didn’t have Facebook in my day, we had a phone book but you wouldn’t waste an afternoon on it

Anyone can use these sites - companies and colleges, teachers and students, young and old all make use of networking sites to connect with people electronically to share pictures, information, course work, and common interests.

I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.

I don't see such a huge difference between online and 'in real life'. I think it has now become one and the same.