Daniel Radcliffe explains why he’s not on social media
As the guy who played Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliffe is beloved all round the internet, but you won’t him engaging online much.
Unless you’ve been living under the stairs for the past two decades, you know that Daniel Radcliffe as the actor who brought Harry Potter to life onscreen. Besides being known as The Boy Who Lived, Danielle Radcliffe is also The Boy Without Social Media. Not only does he not have any social media accounts (Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, etc), but the actor doesn’t plan on making one anytime soon.
This came out while Radcliffe was appearing on Hot Ones, the show where celebrities answer questions while eating progressively spicier hot wings.
“I would love to say there’s some incredibly thought-out intellectual reason for this because I considered getting a Twitter at one point and I 100 percent know that if I did you would all be waking up to stories of ‘Dan Radcliffe gets into fight with random person on Twitter,'” the actor said.
"When I was younger – not anymore, thank God – I used to look up comments about myself on the internet and would read shit like that. That is an insane and bad thing to do. And to me Twitter and everything just sort of feels like an extension of that… unless I was going to go on and just read nice things about myself which also feels like another kind of unhealthy thing to do. Other than that I just don’t honestly think I’m mentally strong enough but right now I’m kind of alright with that."
Even if you’re someone who loves to spend hours scrolling through their Twitter feed or willing to try anything to get a good picture for Instagram, you have to admit that paying so much attention to social media is not the healthiest habit. It’s easy to forget that Danielle Radcliffe was a child star who was probably subjected to intense public scrutiny, and it makes a lot of sense to me why he would want to avoid more attention.
Constantly comparing yourself to others on the internet can be exhausting! More often than not, it’s nice to exist in the real world, even if we don’t have wands or magic spells.
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h/t Digital Spy