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Jennifer Lawrence is not on Instagram, Twitter or Snapchat. "I will never get Twitter. I'm not very good on [a] phone or technology. I cannot really keep up with emails, so the idea of Twitter is so unthinkable to me," she told BBC Radio 1.

Emma Stone. The actress quit Twitter in 2008 and has chosen to stay off social media. “It's that need to be liked, that need to be seen, that need to be validated, in a way, through no one that you know," she told the Los Angeles Times.

Keira Knightley. The British actress told Harper’s Bazaar that she joined Twitter for 12 hours, then quit. "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'."

Kristen Stewart. While not on Twitter, she does admit to having a private Instagram account. "I have a private Instagram so I can keep in touch with my friends because I'm always away. That's not social media. We have a shared photo stream."

Robert Pattinson. Perhaps Twilight mania is to blame, but even Kristen’s ex has sworn off social media. “I do not have any Twitter or Facebook accounts. There are too many people pretending to be me. If you want to know me, you have to go to the cinema."

The Olsen twins. Notoriously publicity shy, fashion queens Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen aren’t on any form of social media… although they did share their very first selfie on the Sephora Insta account last year.

Alicia Vikander. The Oscar-winning actress tried to use Facebook and Twitter. "I tried it once for two weeks but I felt this constant pressure to post. I was so stressed," she told a Canadian newspaper.

Scarlett Johansson. "I don’t have a Facebook or a Twitter account," she told Interview. "I can’t think of anything I’d rather do less than have to continuously share details of my everyday life."

Daniel Radcliffe. The self-confessed technophobe isn’t on Twitter, Snapchat or Instagram. “I think Twitter is great for certain things and certain people, there are people I really enjoy reading on Twitter. But I don’t know why anyone in my position would ever be on it,” he told The New York Times.

Jake Gyllenhaal is concerned about social media's effect. “No one is looking up. I take that seriously. I think it's saying something really important and a little scary," he told USA Today.

Mila Kunis. “I just don't think people need to know when I'm going to the restroom. What am I gonna tweet? Like, 'Hey now I'm moving from room to room.' I don't really know what I would tweet."

Natalie Portman. “It feels like the last thing you want to do,” she said to Business Insider. “It’s so much unwanted interest in your privacy that you don’t want to invite anymore.”

Carey Mulligan used to have Facebook but deactivated it when she became famous. “I feel so freaked out by all the negative stuff out there,” she told Elle UK.

Singer Jillian Banks (aka Banks) may hate social media, but she still wants to connect with fans. So much that she gave her mobile number out to them! "I've never really been into social media - I don't have a Facebook, I don't do Twitter or Instagram or anything," she told Billboard. "But I still really want to be able to connect with people and have people make connections through my music, so I figured, 'What a better way than to give out my number?'"

Ryan Gosling doesn’t even use the internet apparently. “I don’t read what people [say abput] me on the Internet. The Internet is like a minefield to me. I just simply don’t enter there.”

Rachel McAdams isn’t much of a fan of it either: “I listen to the news on the radio. I don't have a television and I am really bad at e-mail" she told People.

Kate Moss. Aside from an Instagram account for her new talent agency, Mossy’s thoughts on social media follow the ‘Never complain; never explain’ mantra. “I don't know how to take a good selfie," she says. But she admits to having an account purely to spy on friends. "I have to, otherwise I wouldn't know what anyone was talking about. I don't care about people who post what they're eating or the weather."

Phoebe Philo. The Céline creative director has always been an enigma –she lets her work speak for itself and avoids all forms of social media. "The chicest thing is when you don't exist on Google" she says.

Amy Adams. "I come from a different generation," she told ‘Allure’. "Social media wasn't prevalent when I started. You didn't want people in your house. I've thought about starting an Instagram account, but then I'd be like, #fiber. Really?"

Emily Blunt. “I’m like a dinosaur with that stuff,” she told the NYT’s Vulture. “No. 1. But it’s also not really an organic sort of fit for me. I can barely remember to text people back!”

Tina Fey is against social media. “There’s just not enough hours in the day for it really,” she told E! Like her longtime pal Amy Poehler, she’s also too busy. “We both work a lot. And if we have time that we’re not working, we want to be with our kids. I’m not going to be curating what my meal looked like for Instagram or something.” She jokes that she won’t join until one thing is cleared up: “I’m just waiting to be able to show my nipples."

Amy Poehler also avoids social media. “I try not to read too much online because I always get my feelings hurt, even if someone’s flattering you," she told Paper magazine. “The amount of Instagram selfies seems crazy out-of-control. The idea of, ‘This is my face and everyone needs to see it all the time,’ is so far from the privacy that people used to seek. Now everyone acts the way ’80s performance artists used to act... Everybody’s like, ‘This is my vagina! I’m gonna put s**t all over me and take pictures!’”

Bradley Cooper. “For me, maybe I'm old fashioned, if I know so much about you and you’re playing a character in a movie then that’s a lot of work I’m gonna have to do to forget who you are so that I can believe the character and therefore enjoy the movie,” he said to OK! TV.

Daniel Craig. Perhaps playing a spy has made the guy nervous about privacy, but the Bond star has strong feelings about it. “I am bloody not [on Facebook]. And I'm not on Twitter either... ‘Woke up this morning, had an egg’? What relevance is that to anyone? Social networking? Just call each other up and go to the pub and have a drink.”

Benedict Cumberbatch avoids social media, especially after catching a neighbour tweeting his every move. “I would say that it was the strangest fan experience that I’ve ever had. I had someone live tweeting my movements while I was in my own house. It was such a strange and a direct thing to see these tweets saying what I was doing as I was doing them. I found it really worrying, and, yes, of course, very hard to deal with.”

Angelina Jolie claims she’s a technophobe. “As Brad knows, I don’t really know how to turn on a computer,” she once said.

Brad Pitt, Ange’s soon-to-be ex is the same. “First of all, I don’t really know how to operate a computer.”

Johnny Depp doesn’t even own a phone. “I just don’t like phones,” he told Access Hollywood in 2010. “I just don’t like them... being reachable all the time.”

Winona Ryder. The star is as stuck in the ’90s as you’d imagine. “I’m not on social media. I don’t actually know how to use it.” Even cuter – one of her 12 year old Stranger Things co-stars confirms this: “She thought Snapchat was chips.”

Kate Winslet. The actress has banned social media in her house. "It has a huge impact on young women's self-esteem, because all they ever do is design themselves for people to like them," she told The Sunday Times. "And what comes along with that? Eating disorders. And that makes my blood boil.”

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