James Franco: "Social Media is Over"

I wasn’t surprised when I heard over the weekend that recent Oscar host and actor (and Yale scholar) James Franco quit Twitter. The man has so much on his plate, it’s a wonder he ever found tweeting time in the first place.

I wasn’t surprised when I heard over the weekend that recent Oscar host and actor (and Yale scholar) James Franco quit Twitter. The man has so much on his plate, it’s a wonder he ever found tweeting time in the first place.

But for @jamesfranco to declare that “social media is over” hits home for this particular author, who makes her living discussing social media. What can Franco mean, and what would provoke this comment?

Apparently, the oscar-nominated actor was sick of negotiating his online identity with the one that his producers and agents wanted him to put forward.

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