Billie Eilish Explains Why She Deleted Social Media Off Her Phone
etonline.comBillie Eilish has distanced herself from social media. During an appearance on the podcast, the 21-year-old singer revealed why she deleted social media from her phone.«I don't look at it anymore,» she said of social media. «I've deleted it all off my phone.» Eilish noted that the drastic move was «such a huge deal» for her.«I feel like I grew up in the perfect time of the internet when it wasn't so internet-y that I didn't have a childhood.
I really had such a childhood and I was doing stuff all the time,» she said. «It was computers and games on computers, but barely.
We were doing stuff. And then when I became a preteen there were iPhones, and then I got a little older and there was all of what [the internet] has become.»But then, Eilish said, she was part of the inception of social media as we know it today. «Being a preteen and a teenager on the internet, those were my people.
I was one of them. I was one of those people on the internet,» she said. «And then to, within myself, feel like nothing changed, that I'm doing what I've always done and… to just keep doing what I do over the years, and slowly the videos I'm watching and the things I see on the internet are about .
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