The love you get online is something else: Arjun

Before Arjun Kapoor joined social media, he wasn’t a big fan of the platforms. The 32-year-old actor was “against” Twitter and Facebook, and created an account as a birthday present for his fans. “I used to think that you’re reflecting too much of your life on these public platforms. I wanted to protect that privacy and never wanted to overtly showcase my life,” says the actor, who stars in the recently-released Mubarakan.

“But fans used to ask me why I’m not on Twitter. That’s why I decided to gift them this, and on my birthday [in 2014], I joined social media,” says Arjun. “Since then, things have been different — the kind of love you get from your fans online is something else. And it’s not just about the fans; I can get all kinds of news and updates too.”

He still guards his privacy, though. Arjun’s Instagram account shows him in photos with co-stars or at film events; there’s very little of the person behind the fame. The actor, however, does think that he got addicted to social media quickly. “The bane of social media is that you become too dependent on your phone... You keep checking on others, and what they’re doing. It’s addictive like that,” he says. NOTE TO READERS: We would like to inform our readers that some of the coverage that appears on our pages is paid for by the concerned brands. We would like to emphasise that no sponsored content does or shall appear in any part of HT without it being declared as such to our valued readers.

Recently, I took a social media detox, and didn’t touch my phone for 48 hours. I realised how dependent we’ve become. ARJUN KAPOOR, ACTOR