Am I a ranting maniac on Twitter? Yeah, but I'm also a pretty mellow, married guy who's into hiking and walking his dog.
I just don't do much social media. No, it is more important to strike a balance between ballet and real life.
I have always wanted to tell Miranda's backstory. To me, it's so fascinating that as a YouTuber, everyone knows what we show them. No one knows what goes on when the cameras are off. I always thought, what would Miranda do in her time off?
A student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison spent 90 days technology free. He went without a cell phone, Facebook, Twitter, or any social media of any kind. And you know what really improved? His driving!
There's definitely more to me offline than what you see online. Because what I show online is what I want to show to my followers... If I showed everything I did offline, it might not align with some of my other followers around the world.
I take breaks from social media periodically because I think it is healthy to walk away and focus on the life that's in front of you instead of the life happening on your screen.
Read books, discover the blues and don't Tweet.
I see some kids whose social media is their whole world, and I actually think it's good to disconnect from that.
The world outside Twitter was great. I read books. I reconnected with people I knew from real life and met them for drinks in person. Then I drifted back on to Twitter.
Facebook is not the world.
So much of my life is not about work and that is usually mainly what I do tweet about. We live a very quiet life.
The Internet is for lonely people. People should live.
You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.
Can I bond with people and live for 39 days without my Instagram account? Probably! But the real question for me is this: can I be happy doing that?
If I had my way, the woman I marry, she wouldn't be a part of Twitter and she wouldn't be on Facebook.
What if the Internet breaks tomorrow? Then you'd realize that you're a human being, and you're not validated by what other people think of you - it's how you think of yourself.
Technologically I live in the 17th century. I have a very simple cell phone. I say I live through the kindness of strangers, because if they see something on the Net they type it out and send it to me.
I'm still struggling with whether I might want to get off the Internet. More and more people I know have. Daniel Day Lewis doesn't do the Internet at all, and I noticed he had many more books open around his house.
Most of life is offline, and I think it always will be; eating and aching and sleeping and loving happen in the body. But it's not impossible to imagine losing my appetite for those things; they aren't always easy, and they take so much time. In twenty years I'd be interviewing air and water and heat just to remember they mattered.
I really don't spend any time on the Internet, so I guess I live a little under a rock in that respect.
I don't live my life in a social way. I don't put everything out on social media. I don't live that reality lifestyle. At the same time, I've always been private, ever since I was in high school.
We completely ignore social media. Bradley Simpson also isn't on social media very much. I think we just try to live in reality as much as we can.
You often need to take a step back and think about what reality is, and what the world was like before Instagram - things weren't about perfecting something for an hour just for a photo.
There is no law of physics that says just because we're connected, there has to be this schism between our physical lives and our digital lives.
It's weird: for someone who mostly really exists online, I'm actually not very interested in the Internet at all.
