Following Miley Cyruys’ decision to ditch Twitter, social networking and, seemingly, the internet, we take a look at 10 other celebs who have shunned technology.
Miley Cyrus
The Hannah Montana star quit Twitter earlier this month, upsetting rafts of fans in the process. Cyrus had over a million followers but decided to ditch the microblogging site after fellow actor and friend Liam Hemsworth gave her ‘good reason’ to do so. She clearly knows something we don’t.
Keira Knightley
“I hate the internet,” blasted KK in an interview with the Daily Telegraph. “I find it dehumanizing to constantly check emails or social sites which have become so fashionable.” She won’t be reading this then, so we can safely call her a misguided fool.
Jack White
The lo-fi loving musician is so lo-tech that he doesn’t even own a mobile phone and is suspicious of those who do. “I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to the digital age. But when I talk to people about that, they just go, ‘Yeah I know what you mean’ and stare at their mobiles,” he said with a world-weary look on his face.
Marc Jacobs
The super cool fashion designer candidly labelled himself ‘a kind of Luddite’ when it comes to technology. “I do know how to Google,” he says. “And I've even had a relationship from the internet. But I can't sync up with my iPod; I don't know how to use Photoshop and machines break around me.” Don’t expect a Jacobs designed iPhone sheath anytime soon, then.
George Clooney
Smoothie actor Clooney clearly doesn’t use social networking sites to pick up ladies. “I’d rather have a rectal examination on live TV by a fellow with cold hands than have a Facebook page,” he said in a recent interview, according to E! Online. Good choice of words, George.
Vince Vaughn
It’s not Facebook or Twitter than Vaughn can’t get a handle on, it’s mobile phones. In 2007 he admitted to MTV that he didn’t own a mobile, choosing rather to borrow mates’ on a ‘buddy system’. "I am an annoying friend that way," he confessed, not unreasonably.
Paul McCartney
We’ve worked out why Macca has so much money. It’s not through record sales or live appearances, oh no, it’s because he can’t use a cash machine. According to Forbes.com, he doesn't know how to use ATMs and prefers writing letters to sending e-mail for ‘aesthetic’ reasons.
Elton John
Sir Elt has seen the internet, and he doesn’t like what he sees. Not one bit. "I do think it would be an incredible experiment," he says, "to shut down the internet for five years and see what sort of art is produced in that span." That’s right, Elton, let’s shut down the internet. Brilliant idea, well done. Now, back to the piano…
Zac Efron
Young Zac, 22, should be embracing all things modern with open arms, but he’s wary of social networking sites. “I don’t have a Twitter, a MySpace or a Facebook or anything like that, I kind of value people not knowing where I am or what I’m doing,” he says, and after being stalked ourselves (and we're not even famous) we can see his point.
Ozzy Osbourne
Now you might not expect the gnarled old rocker to be handy with HTML code or know how the difference between a tiff and a giff, but you’d think he’d know how to send an email. Oh no. “I don't even know how to turn a computer on. I dictate my e-mails and my assistant loads songs onto my iPod,” he told the Birmingham Post. “I know how to turn on the iPod, adjust the volume and sort out what I want on it but the rest of it, I'm lost. And they've all got iPhones now. I can't even make a call on one of those. I touch the screen and something else happens!”.
