Trent Reznor: 'Facebook is false'

Trent Reznor has explained his dislike of Facebook, saying that it breeds falseness.

The Nine Inch Nails frontman, who scored the soundtrack to The Social Network, said that he is more comfortable with the "older school" method of meeting people.

Reznor told Drowned In Sound: "If as many people really listened to Joy Division as list them on their Facebook page, Joy Division would be bigger than U2.

"That sense of, here's the books I'm supposed to have read for the social archetype I want to fit in to, so I'll portray myself this way.

"I've seen that with people I know in real life, and I check them out online, it's not always the same person."

He continued: "If you’re presenting yourself as false and you’re meeting people through the internet who are also portraying themselves not as they really are... I guess I’m just coming from an older school of when you met people, you met them.

"Whether you spoke to them in person or talked on the phone, when you interact with them it would be a real person and not some avatar of themselves."

However, the musician added: "Facebook is a good idea, I guess. Certainly, I don’t really use it that much but it has got me closer to people that I hadn’t been in contact with that I actually know as real human beings, so that's good."

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