Garth Brooks is now on Facebook and Twitter. In fact, he is showing a real enthusiasm for the whole social media thing, but he had good reasons for staying off the sites for several years.
"Well, up till August of this year, you've gotta remember, I was in my children's life," Brooks told the Sean & Richie Show, via The Boot. "That was everything. And, no offense, I didn't feel it was right to share that."
Things have changed, though.
"Pretty cool now, though: The kids are all gone, we're out on tour and people want to know about that?" he said. "Heck, yeah, I can talk about that all day long."
Brooks said he is personally handling his own social media posts, marked "Love, g" at the bottom. "Team Garth" is still posting regularly on both sites.
"I think it's kind of dangerous to have someone else do it for you," Brooks said. "I just don't like somebody else speaking for me.
"They're showing me right now, so there's a team that helps you with it. But the truth is, I want to get to where I can walk on my own and kind of do it myself."
He especially enjoys Twitter, where connecting with fans on a personal level is quick and easy.
"I have been busy on Twitter," he said. "That's a fun thing. I mean it's like, nothing between you and them. I love that ... I like that fact that you can do it any time. Two in the morning, two in the afternoon."
Brooks joined the social media networks Nov. 11, saying: "I want to post cool stuff. Slick stuff, neat stuff. But most of the stuff I'm gonna post is gonna be raw stuff like this, 'cause it's just who I am. So if this is truly a conversation, then I say let the conversation begin."
