Selena Gomez Cautions Against Spending Too Much Time On Social Media

Selena Gomez is one of most-followed celebrities on the world wide web, although she just put social media on blast.


Speaking out throughout the 72nd Cannes Film Festival, Gomez took a moment throughout a press conference to air her grievances with what the descent of social media has done to the youth of today – herself included.


"I think our world is going through a lot,” mentioned Gomez. “I would mention for my generation, specifically, social media has really been terrible. It does scare me while you visualize how exposed these young gentlemen and young females are. They are not aware of the news. I think it’s dangerous for sure. I don’t think folks are getting the correct data sometimes.”


The thoughts Gomez shared on social media are of course referring to the "fake news" phenomenon that's swept up users across Facebook, Twitter, and just about every other online community you could think of. It's something that even the platforms themselves are speedily working to combat – people being misinformed and consuming incorrect informational an alarming rate.


The singer has over 150 million followers on Instagram and about 57 million on Twitter. Still, despite her enormous platforms, she's very quiet as soon as it comes to sharing posts on any of her accounts. As it turns out, that's on purpose. She believes it's "pretty impossible" to prepare social media "safe," and as such she's cautious with the context she uploads.


“I’m grateful I have the platform," she clarified. "I don’t do a lot of pointless photos. For me, I like to be intentional with it. It just scares me. I’ll visualize these young females at meet and greets. They are devastated, dealing with bullying and not being able to have their own voice. It could be excellent in moments. I could be cautious and let yourself some time limits of whenever you need to use it.”


She's absolutely purposeful – in fact, in case you look at her Twitter account, her most recent tweet is actually a link to Taylor Swift's new single "ME!," And also words of encouragement: "So overjoyed @taylorswift13," Gomez wrote.


It's interesting to be able to see indoors Selena's head like this, and it's good she's using her influence to spread words of discretion like this to her young fanbase and also those who might need to hear that social media can be dangerous. We stan a responsible queen, TBH. Right now let's hear more of these advice, Selena!