Kate Winslet is definitely not a fan of social media, and has banned it in all forms from her house.
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Winslet, 40, said that nothing good comes out of it as young people suffer from problems like eating disorders.
The actor, shot to fame after the success of Titanic in the late 90s, revealed that when her daughter Mia had asked for an Instagram account, the photo-sharing site, she told her daughter that sharing photos is like giving away memories.
“We practically kiss them (the phones) goodnight”, she says.
However, Winslet was quick to add that she doesn’t want to come off like a spokesperson for being anti-digital and that she’s not “another celebrity on a soapbox thinking they’ve got the answers”. Take the device out their hand.
Although she stars in the new movie about Apple pioneer Steve Jobs, Winslet confessed in the interview that she’s quite a technophobe.
Winslet feels that this way kids are cocooned into a world of their own and their parents let them do that.
She said previously: “They [the children] don’t have computers because we don’t really do that in my house”. Winslet further said that today, when a family goes out to a café while the adults sit at one corner of the table, the kids are busy with their devices and do not even bother looking up.
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She told The Sunday Times: “I’m going to get slagged off for saying this, but it takes every member of a family to be a family, and thre are too many interruptions these days – and devices are a huge interruption”.
