Tom Holland: Social Media is "very detrimental to my mental state"

See what you've caused, Datalounge!

I think social media is very determined to *everyone’s* mental health tbh.

Well, he probably should delete Grindr too.

Drop the dyke beard.

Be specific, Tom.

What are people saying, that's causing you so much distress?

“Just wanted to let you all know what WE’RE doing up HERE. Ok. All right.”

- Seinfeld’s Expository Pilots

Another post for the I'm Not Doing Okay thread.

I quit social for the same reason. Walking around angry and outraged takes a lot out of you. It's mental masturbation in it's worse form, because there's no pay-off, just new outrage

[quote] I quit social for the same reason. Walking around angry and outraged takes a lot out of you. It's mental masturbation in it's worse form, because there's no pay-off, just new outrage

That's precisely why there's so much crazy going on around us nowdays.

Tom is right.

r2 it's long been said the same of the news as well. . .

ignorance being bliss and all that.

R2 I came here to say that. And I'm not talking about the maybe 2 percent who manage to not be generic after a while. Formerly intelligent, nuanced people start to sound like bots. Social media, and I don't mean DL but the algorithm powered data mining operation that is Twitter and Facebook, is bad for almost everyone. He will miss nothing.

r9

Yeah, all that laughing at his fauxmance must hurt.

I think I'm one of the few that thinks the whole blaming of social media for everything is actually a tired argument. Yeah, it can be bad, and too much of anything is not good for you. But It's only part of the issue. I think a lot of these kids are going to realize that life isn't really all that easier without it, and the problems are deeper than social media itself. And the cynic in me doesn't even believe them half the time. A lot of these kids are still on it, and they know they are. Like everything in life, it's about what you put your focus on, surround yourself with, etc. Who and what you follow on social media is the exact same extension of that. It's all about balance.

As for someone like Tom, I'm surprised he doesn't have a publicist assigned specifically to handle his social feeds. It's basically industry standard practice by now.

His height, no lips and shitty acting are detrimental to my mental state.

R14 works for Meta.

I think some celebs are now forced to say this because social media has ruined a lot of careers. At around 2015 almost every celeb had joined social media and since then people got more and more annoyed with them. To the point were the magic and mystery around celebs has completly vanished.

[quote]social media has ruined a lot of careers

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R18 it was preventable though because it mostly exposed celebs for having created a fake persona while they are actually baddies. If they had been poltically imcorrect from the start, I guess people like Teigen or Rosie-ann and Norm Mcdonalds would have survived their cancelling. This whole era of casting out celebs has shown the stupidity of the average celebrity. They'd rather be remembered as someone "made-up that appeals to the masses" than their real selfs. That's why these losers apologized so quickly without actually meaning it. No self-respect at all and they got removed anyways.

Tom needs Harrison back in his life.

R20 or him...

Harrison is more age appropriate for Tom, than Jake Gyllenhaal.

Personally, I prefer Tom/Harrison than Tom/Jake.

Their sex must be amazing.

Best friends forever.

Hi!

Hello!

See no evil.

The adorableness is too much to handle!

R26 it looks like his brother.

[quote] R26 it looks like his brother.

Gay couples are often twinsies.

Does he get annoyed by the 1000s of fake nudes of him online?

There is a trend in the UK right now to quit social media or limit it strongly amongst people with high stress jobs. Understanding how social media works, I think it’s courageous for a young person to nope out of it if they want to.

He got scared when he found out how many old guys want to fuck him.

Holland being a gay man and pretending to be in straight fake relationships for the Heterosexuals is far more detrimental to mental health than Twitter. It really is tiring watching these closet cases like Tom, Levi, and ShawnM complain about their mental health.

R32 Hey, now. Tom's got real issues with stress, you know. Sometimes it's all I can do to get him to sleep.

Ed.win is the cause of most of the mental illness online.

People are so sensitive about being called a fag.

You would know.

Is he still a thing ? it feels like he had his 15 minutes a decade ago. Is this his way to announce retirement from Show-bz ? Never understood why he had a career at all. That one will be forgotten in 3...2...1...

Yes, this is how he is announcing his retirement from showbz. He is no longer a thing for you to shit on, Ed.win.

Ed.win will get another herpes sore in 3...2...1...

??? who is Ed.Win ? and why would anyone call me that ?

r14 Of course quitting social media doesn't solve all the world's problems, but life is infinitely better without social media.

The last Spider Man movie, on top of the nice bonuses from his other Marvel work, meant he can never work again and be just fine. Of course, Tom will continue to work. He may even try to marry Zendaya since she's also bringing in major money (compared to most actresses) right now. Zendaya is about the only true A-list with genuine Hollywood and public buzz, so Tom is going to hang on to her for dear life.

[quote] but life is infinitely better without social media.

No. It is not. As someone who has experienced life before and after all this social media, blaming it as the sole source of the problem is a cop-out. Period. In reality, it only exposes what is already true for the individual.

R42 = Out of your mind. You think Lezzby Z and Tom are REAL? ....Grow up. ...The fact that Tom COULD come out and not have it effect him financially just makes him a worse person for staying in the closet..

R44 Tom is hoping she'll introduce him to Timmy.

Is he mad that we called him a bottom?

What a snowflake

A break-up with Zendaya in 3, 2, 1..

I'd really like to quit social media, but with my ADHD I need constant stimulation and I'm not sure where to get it if not the internet (I count sites like DL as social media).

R30 I was talking to a person from the uk in a high stress job this past weekend. I think it’s important, especially with younger people. All people can be affected by it in a deleterious way. It’s actually completely unnatural to the human mind..

I was just thinking the other day, that the internet could easily be the tree of the knowledge of good and evil from the Garden of Eden. The good part is all the cumulative knowledge of mankind, every book, every piece of music and artwork. The bad part is looking into the soul of humankind. The darkness changes you.