HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Miley Cyrus definitely isn't having second thoughts about her abrupt decision to quit Twitter last fall.
"I was kind of, like, tired of telling everyone what I'm doing," the 17-year-old star explains in a new interview with Movieline. "I hate when I read things and celebrities are complaining like, 'I have no personal life.' I'm like, well that's because you write everything that you're doing."
Cyrus famously left the micro-blogging site in October, telling her fans that the decision was partly due to boyfriend Liam Hemsworth.
"So I was that person who was like, 'I'm so sad. I have no real, normal life, everyone knows what I'm doing.' And I'm like, well that's my own fault because I'm telling everyone," Cyrus says. "And then I'd tweet, 'I'm here,' and I'd wonder why a thousand fans are outside the restaurant. Well, hello, I just told them. So I'm just, like, kind of thinking doesn't really make a lot of sense. Everything I'm saying is not really going with what I'm putting on the Internet."
Cyrus says the change has been for the good in that she's "a little bit more social" now that she's not surfing the Web all the time on her phone.
"I have a lot more real friends as opposed to friends who are on the Internet who I'm talking to — which is like not cool, not safe, not fun and most likely not real," she says. "I think everything is just better when you're not so wrapped up in [the Internet]."
"I just think it's kind of lame," she adds. "I feel like I hang out with my friends and they're so busy taking pictures of what they're doing and putting them on Facebook that they're not really enjoying what they're doing. You're going to look back and have a million pictures, but you're not going to be in any of them. Because you're not having fun, you're too busy clicking away. So I think just enjoy the moment you're in, and stop telling people about it. Just enjoy it."
So what advice does Cyrus have for her technology-starved fans?
"I'm telling kids, don't go on the Internet," she says. "It's dangerous, it's not fun, it wastes your life, and you should be outside playing sports or something."
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