Billie Eilish has reiterated her desire not to look at social media anymore.The singer-songwriter has spoken out several times about her online media presence in the past saying she previously avoided social media following comments about her body.Now, in a new clip from an upcoming interview on Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend podcast, which you can listen to below, Eilish aired her views on the subject yet again.She explained: “I don’t look at it anymore.
I deleted it all off my phone, which is such a huge deal for me. ‘Cause dude, you didn’t have the internet to grow up with. For me, it was such a big part of – not my childhood, I wasn’t an iPad baby, thank god – but honestly, I feel like I grew up in the perfect time of the internet that it wasn’t so internet-y, I had such a childhood, and I was doing stuff all the time.“And then when I became a pre-teen, there were iPhones, and as I got a little older, there was all of what has become, but being a pre-teen and a teenager on the internet, those were my people, I was one of them.”But as she became more famous and saw videos of herself online, it put her off.“I’m a person who goes on the internet… And to change nothing about the person I am or the life that I live, and to just keep doing what I do over the years, and slowly the videos that I’m watching and the things that I see on the internet are about me. ‘Eww, stinky.’ I don’t like that,” she said.“That’s the other thing that freaks me out about the internet is how gullible it makes you.
Anything I read on the internet, I believe. Me. I know for a fact that’s stupid, and I shouldn’t do that because I have proof it’s not all true; almost none of it’s true.”The Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend podcast will kick off on Monday.
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