{"id":749113,"date":"2019-11-21T14:02:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T14:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/11\/21\/hollywood-actor-idris-elba-cutting-down-on-social-media-usage\/"},"modified":"2019-11-21T14:02:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T14:02:09","slug":"hollywood-actor-idris-elba-cutting-down-on-social-media-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/21\/hollywood-actor-idris-elba-cutting-down-on-social-media-usage\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Actor, Idris Elba Cutting Down On Social Media Usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_672331\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-672331\" style=\"width: 471px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-672331\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/9269077_idriselbagotmarriedinasecretceremonyunclesuru2_jpeg58081b9b4e9d27ce810f2127addc63fc.jpeg\" alt=\"Idris Elba\" width=\"471\" height=\"560\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-672331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Idris Elba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hollywood actor Idris Elba has revealed he will cut down time spent on social media as it is now making him feel depressed.<\/p>\n<p>Elba who is very active on Twitter and Instagram told Fast Company magazine:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0[Video]: Davido pulls very electrifying performance at Idris Elba\u2019s wedding<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019ve been trying to wean myself off. \u201cI used to post a lot more, but it\u2019s been putting me off lately. And Twitter\u2019s just not how I want to receive my news. \u201cI read the news aggregated on my iPad, but I can\u2019t check it constantly \u2013 I\u2019m not proud of it, but it\u2019s true \u2013 because it makes me feel depressed.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The 47-year-old actor also disclosed that he has found a way to find peace during his spare time.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201c<em>I\u2019ll just sit in the dark, stare, and try not to do anything-just clear my mind and decompress.\u201d The star\u2019s dual careers mean that moments of free time are few and far between, however, and he only sleeps \u201cfour or five\u201d hours a night, and schedules his time in terms of projects rather than days or hours.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI don\u2019t think in terms of minutes or hours or days or dates, especially because I\u2019m travelling between time zones,\u201d he added. \u201cMy home base is London, but I could be working anywhere around the world. I pretty much know my schedule for the whole year, and I think of it in terms of blocks of time, where each project is a block.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idris Elba Hollywood actor Idris Elba has revealed he will cut down time spent on social media as it is now making him feel depressed. Elba who is very active on Twitter and Instagram told Fast Company magazine: Read Also:\u00a0[Video]: Davido pulls very electrifying performance at Idris Elba\u2019s wedding \u201cI\u2019ve been trying to wean myself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":749114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nollywood"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hollywood Actor, Idris Elba Cutting Down On Social Media Usage - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/21\/hollywood-actor-idris-elba-cutting-down-on-social-media-usage\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Hollywood Actor, Idris Elba Cutting Down On Social Media Usage - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Idris Elba Hollywood actor Idris Elba has revealed he will cut down time spent on social media as it is now making him feel depressed. 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