Lorenzo Silva leaves Twitter and one feels something similar to having lost a friend. This successful writer, columnist and intellectual leaves the social network in which he opened a profile in 2010 discreetly, without any adjustment of accounts as usual in that digital environment, simply as a result of a minimal reflection.His elegant farewell has been the image of the supermoon in Venice, no reproach, no complaint.
In an article published in The World, and as a courtesy to his followers , offers a more detailed explanation of the reflection that has led him to make that decision in which the cost-benefit analysis has had a decisive weight. "I began to understand that the tool was not designed to my ends, but for those of their owners-something that I already intuited and that otherwise does not cease to be licit-, and that some and others had ceased to be compatible: the skillful use by Twitter of curiosity and other automatisms of our brain had become a distortion that I turned away from more important things, "he explains.
Silva was always characterized by his intense activity on Twitter, which led him to participate in the "fires that set the networks on fire" one day and another as well.Just as I explain in Nobbot, Twitter became parael in a very efficient and agile way of attending to your readers , "because a short message you can always put it, instead you don't always have time to answer everything that comes to you by email".
Supermoon in Venice.Good image to disconnect forever from Twitter.Thank you all, but this stopped compensating.pic.twitter.com/mTcBxdRTxF
-Lorenzo Silva (@VilaSilva) January 2, 2018
TEMPLANZA FRONT to trolls in search of RETUITs
And his participation in this network was always characterized by constructive zeal, even in dialogues that only sought destruction, flare and easy retuits."To those who attack me I always give it a chance: many times I understand immediately that I have to block it, but other times a dialogue is established and yes, it is even possible that someone who started looking at you and treating you with hostility reconsiders and comes to consider that maybe Some reason assists you. Someone has told me that yes, that after reading my arguments on the networks, he has understood that appropriating another's book is an illegitimate and essentially harmful act, for people whose work you despise (not only the author), for all readers and for the supply of quality books that may be available to you ".
RelatedThe author of this article had occasion to debate with him on several occasions and, I must admit, that our conversations made him even change his mind on issues on which, as on so many occasions, my firm opinions are solid mistakes.I was convinced that, more Beyond the quality of his work, the attitude of creators such as Lorenzo Silva demands from the cultural consumers a certain level of commitment and, for that reason, I collaborate in the edition, through the Crowdfunding Books platform.as in the edition of one of his works.Because, like Silva, I think that this worker should be able to live off the fruit of his effort, a fruit that is, at the same time, seed to make our society a more fertile ground for it to sprout sensitivity and knowledge.
we are all sometimes lorenzo silva
Like Lorenzo Silva, I abandoned a social network for a long time and also believed-in a gesture, perhaps, of arrogance-that I should explain this march to my followers.At that time I justified my decision by the fact that, in my opinion, we have turned communication into a game of rewards , a Pavlovian exercise in which the reflection prior to the act of communicating and the sensible exercise of this activity lose weight in the face of urgency and occurrence, two characteristics increase the chances of success of our updates in social profiles.
This is a conditioned reflex that makes us feel comforted in the loneliness of our cell of glass walls. A small transparent space from which we share the limited vision we have of the entire prison with those closest to us, in the immense "digital panoptico" described by Byung-Chul Han and they could barely intuit Foucault, Orwell or Bentham in all efficiency and complexity. And all this in a playful, visually attractive, technologically friendly, conceptually challenging environment.
the powerful inertia of social networks
And in this tangled world, it is difficult to resist the inertia of social platforms but if you can try to make a more rational-free use if you want-, of these communication tools. Decide, at least, to whom we grant the treatment of friend or social gathering at the table of a digital bar, without anyone, thinking about the stock price of your company, hurry to do it for us.
For all these reasons, Lorenzo Silva's march on Twitter, I think it is an invitation to reflect for all those who actively participate in social networks. I conclude with an appointment by Marco Aurelio: «Now it depends on me that no perversity, desire, or, in short, no disturbance be located in this soul; however, contemplating all things as they are, I use each of them according to their merit ».Well, let's enjoy the networks making them a sensible and enriching use, but having clear their merits and , also, its limitations.
Today Twitter has one more limitation: Lorenzo Silva is not there. See you on your website, friend.
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