Social Networks Quotes

“now it’s computers and more computers
and soon everybody will have one,
3-year-olds will have computers
and everybody will know everything
about everybody else
long before they meet them.
nobody will want to meet anybody
else ever again
and everybody will be
a recluse
like I am now.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Continual Condition: Poems

“Facebook gives people an illusory sense of being LIKED.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The updated version of Descartes’s Cogito is ‘I am seen, therefore I am’ – and that the more people who see me, the more I am…”
― Zygmunt Bauman, Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity

“In social networks, the function of "friends" is primarily to heighten narcissism by granting attention, as consumers, to the ego exhibited as a commodity.”
― Byung-Chul Han, Müdigkeitsgesellschaft

“Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Did you know that using social media can actually help you to increase your level of thinking?”
― Germany Kent

“The best Digital Personal Brand is made by the stories you share, not the items that you display.”
― Dario Sipos, Digital Personal Branding: The Essential Guide to Online Personal Branding in the Digital Age

“The best Digital Personal Brand is a reflection of your true self.”
― Dario Sipos, Digital Personal Branding: The Essential Guide to Online Personal Branding in the Digital Age

“It is never too late to establish your digital personal brand.”
― Dario Sipos, Digital Personal Branding: The Essential Guide to Online Personal Branding in the Digital Age

“Create your own digital personal brand, or the search engine algorithm will do it for you.”
― Dario Sipos, Digital Personal Branding: The Essential Guide to Online Personal Branding in the Digital Age

“Facebook is not just injurious to health, it's now a full-on humanitarian crisis.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“Facebook Sonnet

Facebook is not just injurious to health,
It's now a full-on humanitarian crisis.
If you think it's just a harmless bad habit,
You're fanning the flames of social necrosis.
Social media ought to make people social,
Not make pavlov's dogs out of humanity.
Yet all that facebook actually does today,
Is drive society towards clinical insanity.
Social media is not necessarily bad,
So long as it doesn't feed on our stability.
Yet facebook has devised the perfect algorithm,
To learn, pump and monetize human instability.
Facebook is the definition of what AI must be not.
Algorithm without humanity is mental holocaust.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“Authenticity is the heart of the success of each digital personal brand.”
― Dario Sipos, Digital Personal Branding: The Essential Guide to Online Personal Branding in the Digital Age

“Digital Personal Brand is what the search engine says about you when people research you online.”
― Dario Sipos, Digital Personal Branding: The Essential Guide to Online Personal Branding in the Digital Age

“If you are not digitally branding yourself, be sure the search engine algorithm is doing it instead of you.”
― Dario Sipos, Digital Personal Branding: The Essential Guide to Online Personal Branding in the Digital Age

“With a visible digital personal brand, the competition becomes irrelevant”
― Dario Sipos, Digital Personal Branding: The Essential Guide to Online Personal Branding in the Digital Age

“With a visible digital personal brand, the competition becomes irrelevant.”
― Dario Sipos, Digital Personal Branding: The Essential Guide to Online Personal Branding in the Digital Age

“The goal of a Digital Personal Brand is to stand out immediately when a Recruiter researches you online.”
― Dario Sipos, Digital Personal Branding: The Essential Guide to Online Personal Branding in the Digital Age

“In the future workplace and connected world, your digital personal brand is the only thing you will have.”
― Dario Sipos, Digital Personal Branding: The Essential Guide to Online Personal Branding in the Digital Age

“A Personal Brand that is visible online creates opportunity.”
― Dario Sipos, Digital Personal Branding: The Essential Guide to Online Personal Branding in the Digital Age

“Your Digital Personal Brand is a written promise to the world that you can be trusted and you have the needed competency skills.”
― Dario Sipos, Digital Personal Branding: The Essential Guide to Online Personal Branding in the Digital Age

“Your Digital Personal brand is speaking more about you than your CV ever.”
― Dario Sipos, Digital Personal Branding: The Essential Guide to Online Personal Branding in the Digital Age

“A digital personal brand is a set of posts, stories, and online activities connected by search engine algorithms.”
― Dario Sipos, Digital Personal Branding: The Essential Guide to Online Personal Branding in the Digital Age

“Projecting yourself online as an expert within your niche is how you start building your digital personal brand.”
― Dario Sipos, Digital Personal Branding: The Essential Guide to Online Personal Branding in the Digital Age

“Create content for your audience instead of search engines. The audience buys your products, not the search engine.”
― Dario Sipos, Digital Personal Branding: The Essential Guide to Online Personal Branding in the Digital Age

“Facebook is to mental health, what fossil fuel is to climate health.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“Unlike most models of interpersonal networks, the one presented here is not meant primarily for application to small, face-to-face groups or to groups in confined institutional or organizational settings. Rather, it is meant for linkage of such small-scale levels with one another and with larger, more amorphous ones. This is why emphasis here has been placed more on weak ties than on strong. Weak ties are more likely to link members of different small groups than are strong ones, which tend to be concentrated within particular groups.
[...]
The major implication intended by this paper is that the personal experience of individuals is closely bound up with larger-scale aspects of social structure, well beyond the purview or control of particular individuals.
Linkage of micro and macro levels is thus no luxury but of central importance to the development of sociological theory. Such linkage generates paradoxes: weak ties, often denounced as generative of alienation, are here seen as indispensable to individuals' opportunities and to their integration into communities; strong ties, breeding local cohesion, lead to overall fragmentation. Paradoxes are a welcome antidote to theories which explain everything all too neatly.”
― Mark Granovetter, The Strength of Weak Ties

“The same dynamics that keep us safe in a pack, herd or society, and comfortable in our family, friends or neighbours also serves as a way for pathogenic transmissions. The warmth of a human dwelling or the immense complexity of a bee hive is also an opportunity for a pathogen to tap into a susceptible population. Network interdiction is a comprehensive name for algorithms intended to disrupt such connections.”
― Chris von Csefalvay, Computational Modeling of Infectious Disease: With Applications in Python

“This leads me to conclude that if the algorithms of those platforms are churning so much toxic content, this is not a fluke or the accidental by-product of a business model, but it’s rather a deliberate act orchestrated from the highest spheres of power, aiming to continue the same wicked agenda we have already exposed: to cultivate ignorance, propagate misinformation, and perpetuate intellectual stagnation within society.”
― Enric Mestre Arenas, THE MODERN WORLD AGAINST THE HUMAN SOUL: Exploring modernity's impact on the human spirit and well-being

“One of the greatest enemies to our freedom and self-development in this modern era is not bombs, corrupt democracies, or the will of ruthless despot dictators. Instead, the enemy we should fear the most is the array of enticing technologies adeptly exploiting our almost limitless appetite for distractions.”
― Enric Mestre Arenas, THE MODERN WORLD AGAINST THE HUMAN SOUL: Exploring modernity's impact on the human spirit and well-being