--- title: Emma Watson on Navigating Social Media, The Circle description: During a chat with Jessica Chastain, Emma Watson spoke about the pitfalls of maintaining an online presence in a social media-fixated world. canonical: https://time.com/4754014/emma-watson-on-social-media/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-25T15:29:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:43:06.345Z og:title: Emma Watson Explains How She Navigates Social Media og:description: "I love social media...but used in the wrong way, it's incredibly dangerous" og:url: https://time.com/4754014/emma-watson-on-social-media/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc317947091d6d03e/6988ca7bcd1bba2109704e26/emma-watson-social-media.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: Emma Watson Social Media og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Emma Watson Explains How She Navigates Social Media twitter:description: "I love social media...but used in the wrong way, it's incredibly dangerous" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc317947091d6d03e/6988ca7bcd1bba2109704e26/emma-watson-social-media.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Emma Watson Explains How She Navigates the 'Minefield' That Is Social Media > Sponsored content. 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Mike Coppola/Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Apr 25, 2017 3:29 PM UTC She may play a tech up-and-comer who gets sucked into the cult of a powerful Internet company in [_The Circle_](http://time.com/4591888/emma-watson-the-circle-trailer/), but [Emma Watson](http://time.com/4693434/emma-watson-on-filming-harry-potter/) seems determined to not let her life imitate her art. During a recent chat with Jessica Chastain for [_Interview Magazine_](http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/emma-watson-1#%5F)_,_ the [_Beauty and the Beast_](http://time.com/4689999/beauty-and-the-beast-review/)star spoke about the pitfalls of maintaining an online presence in a social media-fixated world. “It’s a minefield! Technology is moving so fast right now,” she said. “Everyone is scrambling around trying to understand what it means to have an avatar, how to live our lives on the internet, what it means for privacy, for citizens of a political universe. I think that we’re trying to find rules now, as we speak, and it’s difficult. But, like everything, the internet is an incredibly powerful force that needs governing—not to restrict our freedom, but to protect people.” Watson also explained how working on _The Circle_ changed how she relates to the Internet. “It’s not like a dystopian future—it could be tomorrow,” she said of the film. “I set even more boundaries than I had before between my public and my private lives…I love social media, and I love what it can do and how it brings people together, but used in the wrong way, it’s incredibly dangerous.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4754014/emma-watson-on-social-media/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4754014/emma-watson-on-social-media/"},"headline":"Emma Watson Explains How She Navigates the 'Minefield' That Is Social Media","datePublished":"2017-04-25T15:29:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:43:06.345Z","description":"\"I love social media...but used in the wrong way, it's incredibly dangerous\"","url":"https://time.com/4754014/emma-watson-on-social-media/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Social Media","movies","celebrities","Emma Watson"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc317947091d6d03e/6988ca7bcd1bba2109704e26/emma-watson-social-media.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc317947091d6d03e/6988ca7bcd1bba2109704e26/emma-watson-social-media.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Emma Watson Social Media","caption":"Emma Watson attends the 'Beauty And The Beast' New York screening at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center on March 13, 2017 in New York City.","creditText":"Mike Coppola/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4754014/emma-watson-on-social-media/","name":"Emma Watson Explains How She Navigates the 'Minefield' That Is Social Media"}}]}] ```