Arsenal legend Ian Wright has hit out at people who use social media to abuse others, and that trolls and other assorted idiots have made him reassess his use of it.

Speaking about how he was keen to interact with his followers, he outlined how he simply got fed up with the negativity and decided to quit Twitter over the last few weeks.

Speaking to the Long Ball Street podcast, he spoke at how tiresome he found it having to deal with constant nonsense.

“I’m not gonna come back because social media is just going to become bigger,” he said.

“It’s a monster. It’s out of control. It’s Godzilla. And we’re not going to be able to stop it. In films we’ve seen them stop Godzilla, but we can’t stop social media, and what they’re going to do.

“This is why I’ve come off Twitter. I don’t know if I’m going to go back on, because I don’t need to bring those kind of people … of course you get a thousand requests to wish people happy birthday, can you do this, can you re-Tweet this, can you do that.

“But sometimes it’s the straw that breaks the camels back when you get a comment, you know people are just doing it simply for a reaction.”

Wrighty, never one to shirk a challenge, often questioned that kind of behaviour, but seems to have been worn down by it.

“Why can’t they just come on, decent, without the abuse, to interact?,” he asked. “I’m on there to interact.

“The amount of people I’ve engaged with just to say ‘Why are you saying that? Let’s talk about it’, and they ‘Naaah, I didn’t mean it, I was just saying it’, and then you end up having a decent conversation.

“It’s got to a stage where people are too abusive just because you’ve got an opinion. The other day, no reason … I didn’t even look at Twitter that day, I came in and thought ‘I don’t want wanna be any Twitter no more. I just don’t wanna do it.'”

Which is sad, because so many ‘celebs’ use Twitter as a soapbox or a way to promote their wares. When you have someone like Ian Wright who does want to engage with his followers but is being hounded off it, that says a lot.

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You can listen to the full Ian Wright episode, talking about Dennis Bergkamp, and lots more, right here.