Character Quote by Zadie Smith

“When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships.…

— Zadie Smith

“Technology and its isolating effects Technology in the form of computers, cellphones, and the Internet have increased productivity, access to information, and the ability…

— Charles H. Elliott

“The internet in general and social networking sites in particular are making people more reclusive than social.”

— Sharanya Haridas

We're losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person's mood, to read their body language, how to be patient until…

— Vincent Nichols

“...we are changed as technology offers us substitutes for connecting with each other face-to-face. We are offered robots and a whole world of machine-mediated…

— Sherry Turkle

The effects of Twitter and Facebook and all those things on people's psychologies is a really interesting question to which nobody knows the answer.

— Paul Bloom

Facebook is such a basic utility. It's something that is such a part of peoples' lives, I think it's hard to imagine it going…

— Sean Parker

I take a benign view of digital connectedness. I notice in most young people's lives, Facebook and such doesn't replace normal dating or hanging…

— David Brooks

You happily give Facebook terabytes of structured data about yourself, content with the implicit tradeoff that Facebook is going to give you a social…

— John Battelle

The complicated, ambiguous milieu of human contact is being replaced with simple, scalable equations. We maintain thousands more friends than any human being in…

— Daniel H. Wilson

“Facebook is digital brag-to-my-friends-about-how-good-my-life-is serum. In Facebook world, the average adult seems to be happily married, vacationing in the Caribbean, and perusing the Atlantic.…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“Facebook is not your source of love and care. Facebook (and other Internet giants) digitally manipulates our need for love,”

— Ivo Quartiroli