“Social systems have values - arguments baked into their design. For ex...” — Robin Sloan Quote

“Social systems have values - arguments baked into their design. For example, Twitter's core argument seems to be, 'Everything should be public, and messages should find the largest audience possible.' Snapchat's might be, 'Communication should be private and ephemeral.'”

“When MUDs appeared, that was an entirely novel experience, and often an addictive one. Long before Twitter or Snapchat, MUDs inspired the moral panic of the moment: a 1993 'Wired' article titled 'The Dragon Ate My Homework' described university students losing themselves in these virtual worlds. Keep in mind: they were just words on a screen.”

“We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.”

“Mental communication without verbalization... all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain.”

“My two daughters live on Facebook, and social media is their mode of communication.”