“We all know or have read about someone who has been burned on social media. We have taught our kids not to post pictures publicly that could impact their future, but we have not yet taught ourselves that texts, messages and social media posts could be used just as maliciously or with as much downside as pictures.” KnowsHas BeensKidsUsedSocialMediaTaughtMessagesImpactSocial MediaPostsBurnedText Message Author:Mark Cuban
“Anyone can post messages to the net. Practically everyone does. The resulting cacophony drowns out serious discussion.” DoeSeriousMessagesPostsDiscussionCacophony Author:Clifford Stoll
“I was with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, really in the middle of nowhere, about 80 miles south of Baghdad. And it was almost midnight, and I got a computer message from the home office of the Washington Post asking me to call them. I did call them and was told that I'd won the Pulitzer Prize.” HomeMiddleOfficeComputerMessagesAskingSouthIraqMilesPostsPrizeDivisionMidnightBaghdadMiddle Of NowhereAirborneHome Office Author:Rick Atkinson
“We all have a history of digital texts, posts, messages, reposts/tweets that are sitting out there and can be used by anyone for any reason.” ReasonUsedMessagesSittingPostsDigitalTweet Author:Mark Cuban
“One Dad I know uses what I call Post-It® Note therapy on his children. He leaves sticky Post-It Notes everywhere ...in their lunch box, inside their shoes, on top of their sandwich before he wraps it up. He once went into his daughter's room, looking for his hammer, and on the back of her bedroom door were every Post-It Note he'd ever given her - over 250 in all with simple messages like 'Great job'...'I love you'...or 'You're special to me.' Do you think that girl knew, without a doubt, that her Dad valued her and loved her?” ThinkingKnowsChildrenUseJobsGirlGivenSimpleRoomsDoubtDoorsSpecialLove YouDadMessagesDaughterNotesShoesBoxesPostsTherapyLunchBedroomHammersWrapsSandwichesGreat JobThat GirlStickySpecial To MePost It Notes Author:Jack Canfield
“I haven't sworn off Facebook. I'm on Facebook. There's a fan page on Facebook that I will update, but I'm on there myself under a pseudonym, because there were a lot of people able to private-message me on Facebook, and it was getting really weird. And then with MySpace, I just don't read messages. I delete everything, and I just post updates every now and then.” PeopleAbleFansHavensMessagesPagesPostsNow And ThenReally WeirdUpdatesPseudonyms Author:Patton Oswalt
“The great post-Holocaust poet, Paul Celan, said that a poem is a message in a bottle sent out in the not always greatly hopeful belief that somewhere and some time it would wash up on land on heartland perhaps.” SaidBeliefLandPoetMessagesPostsHopefulBottlesHolocaustMessage In A Bottle Author:Edward Hirsch
“I was about to get in the shower; I took a nude selfie, kept it in my phone for over a year. I just liked the picture, so I was like,"Let me put censor bars on it and post it." I don't do things to be like, "This is powerful. I'm going to show you guys that this is my 'message.''' I'm not that type of person".” YearsPersonsShowsGuyPowerfulTypeMessagesLet MePhonesBarsPostsShowers Author:Kim Kardashian
“We can still publicly post a message to Facebook that's globally readable. But we could also adjust things so that they can only be shared with those closest to us, and the confident that this is enforced through both legal and a systemic standards-based protection.” StillsMessagesStandardsProtectionPostsClosest Author:Edward Snowden
“What is the emotion of an empty inbox? An unliked Post? An ignored dating app message? I think there's a great loneliness that much of our society is running from, and we search for relief in our phones and computers, our online communities, our social networks of friends.” ThinkingRunningSocialCommunityEmotionLonelinessComputerMessagesEmptyDatingPhonesPostsReliefOur SocietyOnlineIgnoredSocial NetworkAppsInbox Author:Alexander Weinstein
“I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, 'God is not mad at you.' Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, 'That is exactly what I needed to hear today.' Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.” PeopleNeedsFeelsBelieveSaidTodayI BelieveHoursNeededOne DayMessagesMadResponsePostsPositive Response Author:Joyce Meyer