Avid Reader and Geek Girl

“rarely post on social media, but not because I don’t understand it. I don’t post because I do understand. The urge to prove I have lived never goes away.”
― Samantha Downing, Too Old for This

“More people across the globe get their news and cues from social media, it has a scary ability to generate anxiety and rage, and it is addictive. Expert after expert I talked to over the years has made the same point—in the new paradigm, engagement equals enragement. This is made worse by the people who run these companies, for whom anticipation of consequences is lacking and whose first instinct is to let it all through the gate, regardless of potential damage of danger. What’s the opposite of the Mommy state? Parent-free chaos.”
― Kara Swisher, Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

“Judgment is one of those things you can feel before you know what it is.”
― Samantha Downing, Too Old for This

“That’s the thing about anger. It doesn’t just sit around, doing nothing inside of you. Anger has to go somewhere.”
― Samantha Downing, Too Old for This