You can't blame Keira Knightley for not trying. Considering how she "hates the Internet," her attempts to create an online presence should be heralded as something close to heroic.
In 2009, the "Pirates of the Carribean" star declared to The Telegraph that she thinks it's "dehumanizing to constantly check emails or social sites which have become so fashionable."
Despite her misgivings about social media, she revealed to Harper's Bazaar U.K. that she still gave Twitter a whirl quite recently - with a fake name. However, she closed her account when she saw some of her worst fears play themselves out in real life.
"It made me feel a little bit like being in a school playground and not being popular and standing on the sidelines kind of going, 'Argh,'" the British beauty said in the magazine's February edition.
The Daily Mail said that her notable absence from social media land may make her appear haughty to fans. However, the 28-year-old actress isn't affected by such talks.
"No, I think that's fine...I like being private," she clarified. "I haven't asked a lot of the actresses who I really admire, 'How do you do it?' because I don't want to know. Maybe I'm childish in that way; I just don't want to know about your life."
Her brief foray into Twitter universe was not the only subject Keira touched in the Harper's Bazaar interview. She also talked about being confident enough to not look to others for approval only after 20 years in the entertainment industry.
"(I was) spending so much time being neurotic and beating myself up (that I thought) actually, if I didn't, I might get further by just going, 'Oh, f**k it," she revealed.
She must be doing things right as the "Anna Karenina" star never runs out of movie projects, taking on roles that challenge her acting talents.
The newly-married star will be next seen in "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit" on January 31, 2014.
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