Social Media Privacy Quotes

Even worse than seeing women's privacy violated on social media is reading the accompanying comments that show such a lack of empathy. ~ Emma Watson

I am a nonparticipant of social media. I'm not much attracted to anything that involves the willing forfeiture of privacy and the foregrounding of insignificance. ~ Billy Collins

You have not had any privacy since the first day you owned your first cell phone. They can track everything. They can hear recordings of anything you have ever said on your cell. And read everything you ever read, and everything you ever typed. And see every location you've ever been to. That's just how cells work. Your privacy is a willful illusion. ~ Oliver Markus Malloy

Under the notion that unregulated market-driven values and relations should shape every domain of human life, the business model of governance has eviscerated any viable notion of social responsibility while furthering the criminalization of social problems and cutbacks in basic social services, especially for young people, the elderly, people of color, and the impoverished.36 At this historical juncture there is a merging of violence and governance along with the systemic disinvestment in and breakdown of institutions and public spheres that have provided the minimal conditions for democracy. This becomes obvious in the emergence of a surveillance state in which social media not only become new platforms for the invasion of privacy but further legitimate a culture in which monitoring functions are viewed as both necessary and benign. Meanwhile, the state-sponsored society of hyper-fear increasingly regards each and every person as a potential terrorist suspect. ~ Henry A. Giroux

The value of being connected and transparent is so high that the roadbumps of privacy issues are much lower in actual experience than people's fears. ~ Reid Hoffman

When I think about privacy on social media sites, there's kind of the usual suspect problems, which doesn't make them any less important or severe; it's just we kind of know their shape, and we kind of know how we're going to solve them. ~ Jonathan Zittrain

Neither privacy nor publicity is dead, but technology will continue to make a mess of both. ~ Danah Boyd

In the fancy spectacle of life, aspire to find a joy that does not need an audience. ~ Joyce Rachelle

Privacy is dead, and social media holds the smoking gun. ~ Pete Cashmore

Everyone will be tracked, cradle to grave, with no possibility of escape. ~ Dave Eggers

Having to explain to a child of today, who has learned to swipe before they can speak, that certain aspects of a person's life must remain private for the preservation of one's sanity is almost frivolous. ~ Aysha Taryam

Regarding social media, I really don't understand what appears to be the general population's lack of concern over privacy issues in publicizing their entire lives on the Internet for others to see to such an extent ... but hey it's them, not me, so whatever. ~ Axl Rose