Keira Knightley hates the internet, thinks Twitter is ‘dehumanizing’

Keira Knightley doesn’t care to Twitter, thank you very much. You won’t find her on MySpace or Facebook either. Keira not only finds social-networking sites “dehumanizing”, she hates the Internet in total. Does she know there are cute pictures of puppies and kittens on the Internet? Probably not.

Keira also says that she doesn’t want or expect special treatment because she’s a “celebrity”. In fact, she doesn’t even believe that she is a celebrity. Keira says “I don’t go home or out with my friends saying I’m a celebrity, and I don’t ask to be treated like a queen…My mum and dad would not like that.” That’s nice. The Telegraph has more:

Keira Knightley has said she hates “dehumanizing” social networking websites like Twitter and Facebook.

The Pirates of the Caribbean star said: “I hate the Internet. I find it dehumanizing to constantly check emails or social sites which have become so fashionable.” But the 24-year-old actress admits to being “obsessed” with TV soap Emmerdale and US medical show Nip/Tuck.

In an interview to promote her film The Duchess, she also insisted: “I am not a celebrity. I don´t go home or out with my friends saying I´m a celebrity, and I don´t ask to be treated like a queen.”

“My mum and dad would not like that.”

A number of other stars have also expressed their distain for the web. Hip hop star Busta Rhymes recently claimed social networking sites are “dehumanizing people.”

Those who have tried to appear in step with online trends have often found themselves caught out. Australian actor Hugh Jackman had to apologise and admit his Twitter account was updated by a member of his staff in the US after one of his postings confused the name of the Sydney Opera House.

[From The Telegraph]

As to the idea that the social-networking sites are somehow dehumanizing, I don’t know. If Keira doesn’t want to do it, fine, but lots of people seem to enjoy it. I’m not a fan - I prefer my privacy, and I don’t care to update strangers on what I had for lunch. In my opinion, the social-networking stuff isn’t so much “dehumanizing” as epically boring. Just a lot of voyeurs and exhibitionists enjoying one another, and I’m neither.

Keira is one of those women who would seem more at home in another era. Much like Dita Von Teese, I could see Keira in a bygone era before Twitter and before the internet. Keira would be at home in the post-WWII era, I think. An early 1950s waif, an expatriate in Paris or something like that.

Source: Cele|bitchy