United Kingdom, Dec. 30 -- Kim Wilde found social media "intrusive and overwhelming".

The Kids in America hitmaker reduced her online presence in 2024 and she worries about young artists, who feel they need to be "very exposed" and accessible in ways she didn't have to deal with at her pop peak.

She told BANG Showbiz: "I think it must be very hard, really hard for new artists.

"I came off social media because I found it so intrusive and overwhelming in so many different ways, for so many different reasons. I feel glad that I was able to have a degree of anonymity during the '80s and '90s, that's been taken away now. It's very exposing.

"People are very exposed now. I don't think it's altogether a healthy thing."

However, Kim insisted...