13 Celebs Who Turned Their Backs On Technology

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13 Celebs Who Turned Their Backs On Technology

Turns out that even the most glamorous of celebrities, those people who have practically infinite access to modern technology, sometimes prefer to go kind of Luddite. Whether they are giving up on computers, social media, specific apps, smart phones (or just phones in general), they have decided that hell no, those things aren’t for them and they don’t need them. Maybe their reasoning behind such abstentions should be a lesson for the rest of us down here. Maybe all those interviews and flashing cameras have made them unreasonable. Either way, it’s fascinating to see how the people we might expect to be the most plugged in of all of us have taken that step back and imposed restrictions which we couldn’t see ourselves imposing. So, reasonable or not, we still read their reasons and stroke our chins, thinking “huh, maybe they’re on to something there” and briefly consider following suit. But then we don’t. Because we’re not as cool as them.

Robert DeNiro

Robert DeNiro uses a flip phone, not a smartphone, it turns out. They're easy to use!, he explains. Plus, he says, I don't do Facebook, don't do Twitter, don't do... what's the other one? Не meant Instagram, apparently. CRACKED.COM

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Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Phoebe Waller-Bridge, of Fleabag fame, does not use social media. I would feel pressure to be funny the whole time, she explained. CRACKED.COM

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Meghan Markle

Meghan Markle stopped using Twitter after joining the Royal Family. I don't read anything, it's much safer that way, but equally that's just my own personal preference, because I think positive or negative, it can all sort of just feel like noise to a certain extent these days. CRACKED.COM

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Britney Spears

Britney Spears does not use a computer at home pretty much at all. My kids use the computer more than I do!! understand that a lot of people are into it, and I have days where I write and stuff, but it's really not for me. It's not my thing, she explained. CRACKED.COM

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George Clooney

George Clooney does not use Twitter-for one reason. I can have a drink or two at night; I don't need to have an apparatus that, in a drunken joke, even, I could say something, go to sleep, and wake up in the morning and my career be over, he says. CRACKED.COM

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