Mick Jagger: I'm Hooked on Facebook

Mick Jagger attends the SuperHeavy launch party in New York.

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In an interview with USA Today, Mick Jagger says that he has become hooked on social media to the point that it distracts him from making music.

"I spend way too much time on the computer and not enough time playing the guitar," says the Rolling Stones frontman. "There's an underlying problem of this screen life taking over all of your life. It's easy to keep in touch with people, some of whom I wish I'd never kept in touch with. But there they are on Facebook! You can spend a lot of time on that when you should be doing something else."

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Jagger is also on Twitter, but says that he has other people tweeting for him.

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