Helen Mirren calls social media 'distasteful'

Veteran British actress Helen Mirren finds all social networking sites distasteful and intrusive.
Mirren, 68, who stars alongside Indian actor Om Puri in 'The Hundred-Foot Journey', thinks Twitter can be useful for marketing and as a political tool, but will not use it herself, reported Hello magazine.
"I'm not a social media person. It's not that it upsets me, that's not the right word, but I find it distasteful. But I see it as a great tool politically and obviously it's a great marketing tool," she said.
The 'Queen' star admitted she once signed up for a Facebook account to keep in touch with her family but deleted her profile after just a day.

"Well, I did. I went on Facebook for about 24 hours because I have young members of my family and I travel a lot and I wanted to be in touch.
"But I found very rapidly, literally within 24 hours, that I just found it so intrusive and I didn't want strangers wanting to become my friends. I just didn't want that. There was something really scary about it and I didn't like it at all," she said.