we consume so much, now, that perhaps we don’t know what it means to exist as something unsellable. i had to give up journalling because i couldn’t stop writing for the people who would read it after i was dead.

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

• Sir John Dalberg-Acton.

Demanding privacy from surveillance capitalists … is like asking … a giraffe to shorten its neck, or a cow to give up chewing. These demands are existential threats that violate the basic mechanisms of the entity's survival.

• Shoshana Zuboff.

Facebook is the ‘sociocultural equivalent of a fossil-fuel company’.

Egirl culture is a consumer culture. It is identifiable in an Amazon wish list, attainable with a credit card.

In middle school I wore a uniform every day- the only freedom we had was in what shoes we wore. The Instagram profile is similar- offering a false sense of control, customization, and individuality when in reality we are all conforming to the same strict and limited presentation of the self.