“We are, like it or not, tethered to our words and actions online as well as off.”

“I don’t have anything to hide but I do think all online communication should be as private as one cares for it be.”

“There’s a point at which Facebook feels like a really intense Thanksgiving dinner.”

“Preventing echo chambers is all about coming together and making an effort to let people who disagree, even on fundamental things, know that they are welcome to talk to each other as long as they treat everyone with dignity and respect.”

“I feel a lot less creative now, now that I’ve spent so long on reddit, metafilter, hackernews, designernews, hubski, listening to podcasts, reading books, and so on, because it’s like a lot of ideas that I’ve wanted to do have already been done, or will pale in comparison to something else.”

“I don’t think I would have been able to pull off the campaign without Twitter…That other people picked up on the hashtag really moved it forward into the spotlight.”

“All media are roads, but the destination is my own.”

“The Internet is like the mall. One super huge mall. It’s not a place I feel comfortable in.”

“I am a journalist first and foremost and really it’s not my place to provide public commentary, but rather to provoke discussion and questioning of the world around me. That is, hopefully, reflected in my presence on social media as through my work.”

“My behavior changes dramatically depending on which platform I’m on. And there are a lot of reasons for that, ranging from the people I’m interacting with to the site’s tools to the platform’s culture.”