Quotes About Online Identity

#1. It's redaction city when it comes to his online identity.

Ryan Quinn

#2. How do you manage your online identity? It's something I talk about with my students all the time.

Hasan M. Elahi

#3. Fox Interactive Media's acquisitions of Newroo and kSolo demonstrate our commitment to empowering users with interesting tools that they can use to further enhance their online experience and online identity.

Ross Levinsohn

#4. The garden was burning, the air sparked with specks of flame as they say it will be in the World-to-Come when we walk beside the angels and have no fear of their illuminations or of their might.

Alice Hoffman

#5. Online life is practice to make the rest of life better, but it is also a pleasure in itself.

Sherry Turkle

#6. Having an avatar doesn't give you an identity, and having a persona online doesn't make you a personality either.

Marilyn Manson

#7. I just believed. I believed that the technology would change people's lives. I believed putting real identity online - putting technology behind real identity - was the missing link.

Sheryl Sandberg

#8. We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

Daniel Keys Moran

#9. What I'm saying, Doctor, is that I don't seem to stick my dick up these girls, as much as I stick it up their backgrounds - as though through fucking I will discover America.

Philip Roth

#10. Just as in the physical world, people within virtual worlds perform and cycle through different roles and identities. Virtual worlds make such shifts explicit, as well as introducing spaces for play and performance.

Tom Boellstorff

#11. I guess it's ridiculously romantic, but I wanted to be a full tilt, sink-or-swim writer.

Daniel Woodrell

#12. The dictum that "online you are the content you create and the content you share" takes on new shape and form and obviously power when it comes to Hangouts on Air

David Amerland

#13. Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of identity or how to adjust to a spouse who stops working and who may loll, enjoying coffee and reading the paper online while you're still commuting.

Gail Sheehy

#14. But I really believe that when you give people authentic identity, which is what Facebook does, and you can be your real self and connect with real people online, things will change.

Sheryl Sandberg

#15. My hunch is that people often affiliate with causes online for selfish and narcissistic purposes. Sometimes, it may be as simple as trying to impress their online friends, and once you have fashioned that identity, there is very little reason to actually do anything else.

Evgeny Morozov

#16. Every problem is a new puzzle.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. People hate. That's our reality.

Jennifer Brown

#18. I think social networking is absolutely here to stay. Now, whether or not the label will Facebook forever, depends in part, I think, on whether Facebook wants to try to be less proprietary, be more central to the operation of defining and stewarding identity online.

Jonathan Zittrain

#19. I don't have a computer. I am the Luddite of rock'n'roll, I don't have a portable phone. I write things down.

Elton John

#20. The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#21. Look at 4chan culture, which is the ultimate version of shedding your IRL [in real life] identity - you don't even keep a consistent screen name from thread to thread. That's very important to them, this belief in the possibility that what I do online is completely separate from who I really am.

Arthur Chu

#22. As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.

J.B. Priestley

#23. As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.

Edward Sapir

#24. I find it difficult to believe that Redditors don't understand that anonymity online is merely a facade; indeed, it's probably one of the reasons that revealing the identity of pseudonymous Redditors is looked on as such a huge betrayal.

John Scalzi

#25. Radicalism was like a cancer, metastasizing around the globe until every country was infected by it.

Kaylea Cross

#26. We've the right to dream, and that, I suppose, is the magic's greatest power: the notion that we can pick possibility from the trees like ripe fruit.

Libba Bray

#27. If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#28. Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

Tom Waits