Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor has been away from social media for 6 months and says he doesn’t miss it, calling the experience, “brilliant.”
In a recent interview that was posted at Louder Sound .com, he said, “I don’t miss it at all. Here’s the thing. It made me go back and read the news again. I read the news every day.”
About that he continued, “Now I’m getting the story itself and I can form my own opinion. I can talk to people face-to-face about it. I can’t tell you how tired I am of people being incensed about something. That’s all news stories are now. It’s everyone looking for a reason to be mad. I’m tired of people being mad.”
Taylor said his mental health has improved because of it and stated, “It brings out the worst in people. It is social mania. It’s ridiculous.”
He talked about how he leaned on social media while his marriage was falling apart and said: “The fallout from that marriage had forced me into social media, burrowing into a place where people wanted to make me feel better about things because it was bad in my house. From my point of view, you don’t know who is trying to talk to you, who they are and what they want from you. When you don’t give them attention, they turn on you.”
Corey Taylor is currently on a UK tour with Slipknot and confirms that someone else now runs his social media.