George Saunders Quotes About Social Media

Quotes about: Social Media

• Some of our writers are starting to incorporate elements of social media, etc. in the work itself, which is all for the good, I think - finding new ways of being poetic.

  George Saunders

  Thinking, Media, Elements

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

• I've also found that trying to be active with social media changes my moment-to-moment perceptions. Instead of feeling, "What's the deepest version of what's happening here?" I start to feel, "How can I use [or "claim"] this?".

  George Saunders

  Media, Feelings, Perception

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

• We've got a real problem with social media that we didn't know we were going to have. It's almost like the demons have gotten out of the box.

  George Saunders

  Real, Media, Problem

  Source: m.motherjones.com

• I'm starting to withdraw from [technology] as much as I can. I don't do much of the social media stuff. Like, if I'm on Facebook, it changes my relation to the real world in a way that makes me feel sick - almost like I've had too much sugar or something.

  George Saunders

  Real, Technology, Media

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Social media sometimes feels like a vehicle for one-dimensional sniping, more than true criticism.

  George Saunders

  Media, Criticism, Sniping

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think the wave of social media rejection is coming. I think there will be a big reaction against it. It's just like sugar- - mean, I loved it as a kid.

  George Saunders

  Mean, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• What really interests me, on a deeper level, is how our information is coming to us in some kind of messed up way that is making us idiotic. I don't think we've become more idiotic than we always were, but I think the information transfer is funky. The shorthand of it is that social media is making us mentally insane.

  George Saunders

  Thinking, Media, Insane

  Source: therumpus.net

• I don't really do much social media. I just don't like it that much. I've trained myself to write very slowly for a lot of money so it really galls me to write quickly for free.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Media, Social

  Source: therumpus.net

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