26th of April of this year, just about 3 weeks ago Edouard was born, turning me in an uncle~! This didn't happen in Australia, where I'm living at the moment or even in Italy where our family lives, but in Canada, Montreal, where he born surrended by people who already love him, and were long waiting for him to come~!

But for as many were ready to hugh him, as many were far apart, like me for instance. Anyhow few hours later a text message travel all the way across half the world and pingponging from country to homes finally reach my mobile phone making me aware of the blessed event.

I felt and still feel quite sorry I won't be able to meet my nephew for many more months to come, and if is true I won't hugh him for now it's a fact that just few hours after his first angry scream I was already able to admire his pictures just logging into my~facebook and even before ever speak since the birth with my brother or Caroline I found myself watching a video on Youtube celebrating Edouard first 48h.

Then because I've linked the video immediately after on My homepage, thousands of more people connected through various accounts could became aware of what had just happen, and virtually join me.

So I'm entitled to say that when my nephew made his debut in this old world with as mush vehemence he made a second one in the new one that only exist online which doesn't belong to him or neither to me but that everyday more and more skim his border from the one on this side of the window.

Now even if I must admit to be highly addict to the real~live~life and I hardly can imagine myself without a mobile phone, there`s been a day not much long ago when this was not true, when things were running slower but still pretty much in the same direction. My generation has grown up without those tool and then, found itself a shortcut to boost what we normally were used to do or eventually we would do even without.
I'd like to remark ~eventually~ without because could you imagine yourself seeking for a job without internet~? Or starting a relationship and being put in the situation when you canNot phone your partner~? Do you actually have anymore a partner if you don't specify that on your social~network~profile~? How do you relate now days to somebody that was your friend once until you had a fall out~?

If the answer is to removing him or her from your friend list, cutting this person out of your virtual social network, does that means you will not speak with together anymore when you bump into each other in real life~?

So for my generation those tools have been very useful indeed on the first place, but they soon became important as much as the message they are carrying and like the old and still unbeaten pen if used in the wrong way can be very very dangerous.

My question is what does wait tomorrow the generation that like my little family member has just born online and will not have any memory of a past without an everyday and everywhere full on connection~?
I can see and fear social networks growing much beyond today level and to play a prime~time role on our real~time~life.
I fear that we may interact just through social networks, opening the door to a world where whoever and whatever is cut off of the net doesn't exist anymore.
So Edouard I simply wish you what I do wish to myself, that is:
Be able to get the most out of those tools to express ourself, because they are powerful and could help us to reach millions in a twinkle, but at the same time never stop to relate to people on real life and don't forget to live yours.

A presto.