Ed Sheeran has told his fans that he’s temporarily quitting social media because he wants to travel and feels he is “seeing the world through a screen and not my eyes.”
The British “Thinking Out Loud” singer posted a message to his 5.5 million followers on Instagram on Sunday morning.
It came after he finished the last leg of his world “Multiply” tour in Auckland, New Zealand, on Saturday night.
A photo posted by @teddysphotos on Dec 12, 2015 at 10:29pm PST
Sheeran, 24, said in the Instagram post that he was “taking a break” from his cell phone and emails “to travel the world and see everything I missed.”
He also had a message for fans fearing he may be going away for good, when he said “the 3rd album is on its way and is the best thing I have made thus far.”
“See you all next autumn, and thank you for being amazing,” he added.
The singer also took to Twitter before his final show to reveal to his 16 million followers that he would be “buggering off for a while.”
One more show on the Multiply tour then I’m buggering off for a while, Auckland stadium tomorrow ! What a way to end it
— Ed Sheeran (@edsheeran) December 11, 2015
Sheeran’s Grammy-nominated second album “x” — featuring the Pharrell Williams co-written track “Sing” — hit number one in the Billboard 200.
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