Ed Sheeran just quit social media so he can stop 'seeing the world through a screen'

Ed Sheeran
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English singer Ed Sheeran is ditching his millions of Instagram and Twitter followers until next fall, the Grammy-nominated artist announced Saturday.

"I find myself seeing the world through a screen and not my eyes," he wrote in an Instagram post.

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Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.