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Jennifer Aniston became famous in a simpler time, the 1990s, which she still remembers fondly. She’s always been something of a Luddite, and it took her years to finally join Instagram. She was pretty good at IG, although I would guess that she has a team (or perhaps just one person) handling her IG posts and telling her how to do what. She has not embraced TikTok, and I don’t really blame her? I’m not really on TikTok either, although I do lurk and I do see some of the TT stuff on Twitter. Well, Aniston was asked recently if she will ever start a TikTok account and her answer was pretty reasonable.
Jennifer Aniston may have joined Instagram, but TikTok would be one step too far for the actress.
“I don’t have TikTok, nor will I ever. I just won’t,” Aniston told ET’s Deidre Behar, before quipping, “I’m not gonna subscribe to one more thing that is gonna ruin my life or somebody else’s life.”
All jokes aside, and despite Aniston’s popular Instagram presence, she said that she keeps social media “at arm’s length” for good reason.
“It could suck you in and you’ve wasted hours of your life,” she said. “I can’t believe sometimes when I found myself in an absolute wormhole of dog, puppy videos and rescue animals, and babies, and cats. That’s the stuff I enjoy. But then there’s some stuff online I just don’t wanna see.”
Also, Aniston said, “I don’t think we are were designed to take in the amount of information at the speed and the rate that we do these days. I just don’t think it’s good for us. I don’t think it’s healthy.”
For Aniston, the unhealthiest part of social media is “the mental illness that kids are suffering from because of the compare and despair.”
“It’s so hard to be a teenager these days,” she said. “We are so hard on ourselves, and kids are so mean too.” What Aniston does post on social will always be her real self, not a highly filtered version. “I just think it’s best to just be who you are,” she said. “We’ve got good days. We’ve got bad days. We have good hair days. We’ve got s**tty hair days. We’ve got good skin days, bad skin days. It’s a mixed bag. It’s also just so unrealistic to try to sell something that doesn’t feel authentic.”
While I’m a general Aniston Skeptic, I don’t have an issue with anything she says here? She became famous before social media and she’s embraced some of it up to a point, but she’s set some boundaries too. The social media wormholes are a tremendous time-suck. Social media platforms, especially Instagram and TikTok, have really f–ked up a lot of young people, probably in darker ways which we’ll only learn years from now. Now, do I also think that Aniston prefers the “highly filtered” version of life? For sure. Just a few years ago, she complained because Hollywood was becoming less glamorous because of TikTokers.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA – FEBRUARY 24: Jennifer Aniston wearing Celine arrives at the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall on February 24, 2024 in Los Angeles, California, United States.,Image: 850578129, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Jennifer Aniston, Credit line: Xavier Collin / Image Press Agency / Avalon
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA – FEBRUARY 24: Jennifer Aniston wearing Celine arrives at the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall on February 24, 2024 in Los Angeles, California, United States.,Image: 850578313, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Jennifer Aniston, Credit line: Xavier Collin / Image Press Agency / Avalon
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 24: Jennifer Aniston attends the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall on February 24, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.,Image: 852505951, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Jennifer Aniston, Credit line: Jeffrey Mayer / Avalon
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 24: Jennifer Aniston attends the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall on February 24, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.,Image: 852508031, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Jennifer Aniston, Credit line: Jeffrey Mayer / Avalon
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 24: Jennifer Aniston attends the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall on February 24, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.,Image: 852509979, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Jennifer Aniston, Credit line: Jeffrey Mayer / Avalon
