{"id":164829,"date":"2025-04-27T22:03:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T22:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/27\/pete-davidson-social-media-is-the-devil\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T22:03:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T22:03:03","slug":"pete-davidson-social-media-is-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/27\/pete-davidson-social-media-is-the-devil\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Davidson: Social media is the devil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-04-27\" datetime=\"1745791383\" pubdate=\"\">27 April 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/pete-davidson\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,pete-davidson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pete Davidson<\/a> thinks social media is &#8220;the devil&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Pete Davidson doesn&#8217;t like social media<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old comedian &#8211; who famously doesn&#8217;t have an account on any social media platform &#8211; admitted modern society can be &#8220;tough&#8221; and he can only imagine how much harder the online world can make things because &#8220;a lot of innocence is taken away&#8221; and a &#8220;lot of anxiety is provided&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He told People magazine: &#8220;As far as young dudes, I&#8217;m having a tough time in today&#8217;s society and I can&#8217;t imagine growing up with a device, a phone or a computer that just makes you miserable all day and tricks you into thinking you have to go on it all day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just think social media and the internet in general is the devil \u2014 and I just think there&#8217;s going to be new studies in the next five, 10, 20 years of how it ruined, you know, the future of humans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While the former &#8216;Saturday Night Live&#8217; star knows it can be &#8220;scary&#8221; and &#8220;uncomfortable&#8221; for people to put down their phones, he urged them to take the plunge and try to interact more face-to-face.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: &#8220;I promise you it&#8217;s so worth it to talk to a human and see that there is goodness in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nDespite his seemingly-confident exterior, Pete &#8211; whose firefighter father Scott Matthew Davidson died in the New York terrorist attacks in 2001 &#8211; insisted that couldn&#8217;t be further from the case.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: &#8220;If you guys think I have confidence, I have been fooling everyone.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s so difficult to say anything in print and not be afraid to come across the wrong way. But I had a really s***** childhood and like the worst thing that ever could have happened to me, happened to me when I was seven.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nWhile Pete admitted to having &#8220;fallen into traps&#8221; in the past such as trying to &#8220;people please&#8221; and neglecting to take care of himself, he&#8217;s now got a &#8220;newer&#8221; way of looking at life.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: &#8220;At the end of the day, it&#8217;s like your family matters and your two or three friends that you have matter. Everybody else can go f*** themselves. And you don&#8217;t have to put all this pressure on yourself.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;This is sort of newer for me. But I think it kind of shows if you see me now&#8230; it&#8217;s a little different because I went through something pretty tough.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I just think who cares what people you don&#8217;t even know think? Like who the f*** cares. You don&#8217;t know them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/pete-davidson-social-media-devil-1417545.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>27 April 2025 Pete Davidson thinks social media is &#8220;the devil&#8221;. Pete Davidson doesn&#8217;t like social media The 31-year-old comedian &#8211; who famously doesn&#8217;t have an account on any social media platform &#8211; admitted modern society can be &#8220;tough&#8221; and he can only imagine how much harder the online world can make things because &#8220;a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":164830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[512],"class_list":{"0":"post-164829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-pete-davidson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}