Offline Connections Quotes

I update my MySpace every day, I update my Facebook fan page, but that's about the extent of it. I don't want to get into extended conversations with people on MySpace, because there are friends I have extended conversations with every day. I'm on the phone every day. There's like five people I just call and yak with every single day. And that to me is my Internet. You can replace the Internet with five really smart friends.

I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend.

The world outside Twitter was great. I read books. I reconnected with people I knew from real life and met them for drinks in person. Then I drifted back on to Twitter.

You might think you're connecting with your friends on Facebook but when was the last time you went out with your friends and asked them how they were doing? When was the last time you called them and prayed with them and really had a conversation? Go ahead and do those things with social media. I get it. I really do. But if you're lacking the other things, that's when it's out of balance and you're not really connected.

Better to have 3 real friends than 100,000 digital ones.

In the world of screens, we're all tired of screens. That's why I think that live events have become so popular.

It's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media.

The blogosphere makes it possible to have a sprawling national conversation about the hard times - often among people who would never find each other offline.

I like to write paper mail - nobody does that anymore - with my pen pals.

In person I don't have that many friends. I'm a pretty tight-knit guy with the people that I know. Offline, I have no more than four or five friends.

We've got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them?

My social media world is detached from my friendship world. I'll have friends in real life that I don't follow on social media, because I don't really look at social media as the way of connecting to friends. For me, social media is like a business tool.