Digital Discretion Quotes

Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.

Even though I do share a lot of stuff, it's a very small portion of my life. And I think you just have to be careful because, anything that you post, it essentially is there forever. If it's not something you don't want everyone to see, don't post it.

Twitter can get you into trouble.

In the digital age, there are a million and one ways to find out what someone you fancy is doing - but remember, they can see when you're watching their Instagram stories. If you fall deep into a hole of snooping, resist flicking through the digital diaries of their exes, or at least learn to cover your tracks.

I got into Facebook late, and I think if you get into Facebook late, you tend to use it the right way, as opposed to the people who got into it sooner and friended everybody and now have a thousand friends. I keep it at about 80 or so, and they're all people I know. Just because I do a movie doesn't mean I friend everybody in it.

As a general rule, I wouldn't put anything in a text or e-mail or on social media that I wouldn't want the whole world to see.

I've quite often written tweets that I think are across that line, but I just delete them.

Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this means we should be very careful what we use it for.

I tell young people all the time, and now I'm telling anyone, no matter what your age: You can't take back the stuff you put out there on Twitter and Facebook, even e-mails.

It's so easy to look foolish online.

If you don't want the world to see something you're sending, stop and think before you put it out there.

I really don't like to tweet or Instagram anything about the people in my life just because I feel like I signed up for this, and I don't even know what this is yet. I do know that it could go anywhere, and I really don't want to sign other people in my life up for it without their permission or consent.

Never tweet while you're angry; you'll probably regret it later.

Radical transparency has an enormous impact on our personal lives. We can no longer share thoughts, quips, photos or personal opinions anywhere on the web without being mindful that they may turn up where we least expect it (notably job interviews, divorce proceedings or public media).

As funny as some photos can be, think twice about allowing yourself to be tagged in questionable photos.

I don't really think before I tweet.

I'm a pretty early adopter of social media. There's a whole subculture to it. I'm smart enough not to tweet things out of emotion.

Don't say anything online that you wouldn't want your mother to read.

Even on Facebook, like, I wouldn't share everything with my friends, because that's obnoxious.