“Social gatherings can serve three purposes: networking, gossip, or politics. Many care about the social, some about the gatherings, and a few about neither...”
“Social networking is about building people up in your network NOT tearing them down”
“The most elementary of good manners . . . at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities, sad topics or unfortunate facts, religion, or politics.”
“Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics”
“...you are like me, you have more books than you have friends, no matter what Facebook tells you about your social network.”
“A man has as many social selves as there are distinct groups of persons about whose opinion he cares. He generally shows a different side of himself to each of these different groups.”