{"id":68993,"date":"2024-06-09T10:02:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T10:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/09\/ed-sheeran-on-not-keeping-a-phone-i-just-was-losing-real-life-interaction\/"},"modified":"2024-06-09T10:02:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T10:02:05","slug":"ed-sheeran-on-not-keeping-a-phone-i-just-was-losing-real-life-interaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/09\/ed-sheeran-on-not-keeping-a-phone-i-just-was-losing-real-life-interaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran On Not Keeping A Phone: “I Just Was Losing Real-Life Interaction”"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Ed<\/div>


\n<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n
<\/div>\n

Image shared on Instagram. (Image courtesy: teddysphotos<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Washington: <\/b><\/p>\n

English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran opened up on why he decided not to keep a phone since 2015 and shared that his team gives him a phone when needed, reported People. “I haven’t had a phone since 2015,” he said during the recent episode of talk show Therapuss with Jake Shane.<\/p>\n

He revealed this when he shared his email address with the host Jake Shane in place of his number. “I don’t have a number,” he said, adding, “… that isn’t me playing you off either.”<\/p>\n

He said that his team recently gave him a phone to use when it is needed. “I have something to like video stuff that would then go up on social media, but it’s not like an active working phone.”<\/p>\n

Sheeran said that he decided to go without the phone in December, when he saw how many connections he still had from before he became famous.<\/p>\n

“I had the same number from like age 15, I think, and I got famous and I had 10,000 contacts in my phone that would just… people would just text the whole time. And I was just constantly in touch with a lot of people.”<\/p>\n

He went on to share that the stress of messaging people back and forth and sometimes not replying timely led to his phone-free policy in life.<\/p>\n

“I feel like with phones, everyone expects you to reply, and if you don’t reply, it’s rude,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Sometimes you’re just not in a headscape to reply, you’re busy or doing whatever but then you reply, then they reply back… and suddenly you’re in like 40 conversations at once.”<\/p>\n

“I just was losing real-life interaction, so I got rid of my phone, I got an iPad, I moved everything onto email, which I reply to once a week,” reported People.<\/p>\n

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n