At 21, Billie Eilish comes from a generation that grew up with computers and the internet. For the time being, however, she is keeping her hands off social networks. Fake news and posts about herself drove the singer crazy.
Pop star Billie Eilish has banned all social media apps from her smartphone. That’s what the American singer said on the Conan O’Brien podcast “Needs a Friend”. “I deleted it all from my phone,” says Eilish. The step was a huge thing for the 21-year-old. Although she wasn’t an “iPad baby”, she grew up with computers, the Internet and later with smartphones.
Looking at posts about herself in particular would give her a bad feeling: “It stinks, I don’t like it.” Specifically, she reports on an actually serious and serious video about herself, which, however, portrayed her as a “terrible person”. That drove her crazy.
She also worries that the internet is making her gullible. Everything she reads there, she believes: “I know that’s stupid. I shouldn’t do it because I have evidence that almost none of it is true.” Eilish’s quotes come from a pre-release of the podcast, which Rolling Stone says is set to release on March 27. Eilish attended along with her brother Finneas O’Connell.
