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Trevor Harris has jumped off Twitter and Facebook may be next.

The Ottawa Redblacks quarterback said he decided to delete his Twitter account earlier this season.

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“Listening to some mentors, quarterbacks I look up to, they thought it was a good idea for themselves, so I did, too,” said Harris, who may keep his Instagram account. “It’s freeing. There are a lot of people who have opinions out there. When you read some of the stuff, you bypass all the good things that are said and worry about the negativity. That’s what social media has turned into.

“We spend a little much time scrolling on Instagram, Facebook, on Twitter. The main reason I did it was to not have another thing in my life that took away from my family and my teammates.

“You want to eliminate distractions. I want to be the best quarterback I can be for my teammates. I love playing for the city, but I really want to put my focus on the people in the locker room and the people here supporting us. I like face-to-face interaction a little better, I guess.”

Harris said it wasn’t one particular thing he read on Twitter that made him delete the account.

“It was more a decision I’d been thinking about for a long time,” he said. “The thing that’s tough about deleting social media is you have friends you haven’t talked to for a long time and you have social media to connect to them. That’s the hesitation, but people who want to get a hold of me can do so over Facebook or Instagram.”