14 DAY TRIAL // Academy-winner George Clooney is one of the biggest names in Hollywood. He's done a lot of films, dated a hoard of women and poses as one of the more serious actors in Tinseltown today. However, there's one place you'll never catch this man – Twitter.
In an interview with Variety, Clooney has reinforced his stance against celebrities using social media. And since he's a man that likes to practice what he preaches, good old George has managed to stay away from Twitter, Facebook, Instragram and the rest of the lot.
His reasons are simple, “Just because, I like to have a drink at night.” Clooney explained, “I could easily say something stupid, and I also don’t think you need to be that available. I don’t see Matt [Damon] or Brad [Pitt] or myself wanting to get our thoughts out in a 140-character-thing at 3 in the morning.”
He's thought about the repercussion of such a dangerous undertaking, and they didn't sound too good. “God forbid,” he theorized, “you take a sleeping pill and wake up and the sentences don’t even make sense. What a horrible idea.”
Clooney isn't the first actor to speak against celebrities who use social media. Sylvester Stallone quoted George in a recent interview when he said he was quitting Twitter because he was causing too much controversy. At the time, the basic gist of the thing was that “if you're famous and you're on Twitter, you're an idiot.”
There are other famous people out there who should be taking Clooney's advice and switch theory social media accounts off. Whether it is for saying the wrong things all the time, or posting inappropriate pictures, there are at least a dozen notorious people who should stop posting on Twitter or Instagram.
Right now, the social-media-challenged actor is busy promoting his latest, film, “Monuments Men,” a WWII story about an odd group of men who go behind enemy lines to keep the Nazis from stealing and destroying the world's most precious works of art.