The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.

If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity than in hanging out with secular progressives on the World Politics sub-reddit.

The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be.

I fear that I can no longer travel without technology. Twenty years ago, I loved getting on a bus in West Africa and taking off for a city I'd never been to before, relying on advice from out-of-date travel books and fellow passengers on the bus. Now, I end up using TripAdvisor, Yelp, and Google Maps. I probably eat and sleep better when I'm on the road, but I miss the mystery of travel when it was more random and unpredictable.

The Internet is corporations all the way down.

Twitter is my main tool for ensuring news balance.

You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.