He makes an effort to be more spontaneous on Facebook.

— Sherry Turkle

He prefers a deliberate performance that can be made to seem spontaneous.

— Sherry Turkle

Human relationships are rich, and they're messy, and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. Texting, email, posting, all of these things let us present the self as we want to be. We get to edit, and that means we get to delete, and that means we get to retouch, the face, the voice, the flesh, the body -- not too little, not too much, just right.

— Sherry Turkle

I call it the Goldilocks effect: We can't get enough of each other if we can have each other at a digital distance—not too close, not too far, just right. But human relationships are rich, messy, and demanding. When we clean them up with technology, we move from conversation to the efficiency of mere connection. I fear we forget the difference.

— Sherry Turkle

I call it the Goldilocks effect: We can't get enough of each other we can have each other at a digital distance—not too close, not too far, just right. But human relationships are rich, messy, and demanding. When we clean them up with technology, we move from conversation to the efficiency of mere connection. I fear we forget the difference.

— Sherry Turkle

If you feel it right now, on the Internet, you can tell them right now; you don't have to wait for anything.

— Sherry Turkle

If you're having a conversation with someone in speech, and it's not being tape-recorded, you can change your opinion, but on the Internet, it's not like that. On the Internet it's almost as if everything you say were being tape-recorded. You can't say, "I changed my mind.

— Sherry Turkle

I miss those days even though I wasn't alive.

— Sherry Turkle

Increasingly, people feel as though they must have a reason for taking time alone, a reason not to be available.

— Sherry Turkle

In games, he feels that he is "creating something new." But this is creation where someone has already been. It is not creation but the FEELING of creation. These are feelings of accomplishment on a timescale and with a certainty that the real world cannot provide.

— Sherry Turkle