Online Vs Offline Quotes

Amazon.com isn't the same as going down an aisle. The same as record stores. You'll go for Billie Holiday, and you buy Gustav Mahler as you're going out the door.

The Net is pretty cool, but the physical world is the best medium ever.

We're not as happy as our Instagrams and Twitters make us out to be.

When you meet people you've interacted with on social media, they are not like they are on social media.

I get real brave when I text people. When I text people, I am so brave because it's words, but you can't say stuff.

I don't take Twitter too seriously in the physical world.

Online reaction is very different than real-world reaction.

I don't take the Internet and social media very seriously. I've grown up around social media but to me what happens on the Internet just doesn't feel real.

Online, I'm this loud, outrageous, confident guy who acts like nothing bothers him, and he has the whole world at his fingertips. In reality, I'm a shy, quiet guy who would rather spend his nights lying in bed watching Netflix than being a valuable member of society.

There's definitely a role for online booksellers, but they can't host events, bring people together, and form a personal relationship in the way a bricks-and-mortar store and its staff can.

One day the virtual world might win over the real world.

Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.

Online is ridiculous. Places like Ohio State bring people here together, and students teach each other.

I mean, look when you meet me in real life, I'm not the person you see on the Internet, as disappointing as that is.

I'm much nicer in person than on Twitter.

I go to the real world, not the Internet.

Meatspace still has some advantages for a carbon-based girl.

The only thing... in-store retailing has that online doesn't have is it has the ability to touch, smell, feel, and experience.

When I'm on the net, someone always wants to chat with me. But outside of MySpace, it's a completely different world. I don't get recognized that much on the street.

Offline, anything is expensive. Online is much cheaper, usually, to do almost anything.

When people meet me or hear me in person, they quickly learn that I am much more than a tweet and a profile picture.

There is a big difference between tweeting to your friend about something that is happening and having a real personal relationship with people.

Almost every day, people will say to me some version of, 'You're so much nicer in real life.' I guess I come across as not nice.

I'm not even on Facebook. I've got enough friends I never see. You know how you have a lot of friends you never call? I don't have time for new friends, and I don't want to be friends with someone only online.