Alessandro Q. Ferrari
Facebook: Domani Smetto

At first, one thinks it's just a game, something to pass the time.

Maybe you start because someone told you "what, you're not on Facebook?! come on... don’t tell me....."

Or someone from elementary school 30 years ago has looked you up and tells you about it via email.

Then, by chance, you discover that 60% of the people you know have been on it for months.

And so, a bit for fun and a bit with the naivety of children, you get caught up in this special drug, insidious and devastating, perhaps the most wicked since the days of rock'n'roll.

On “them”, if you want, you can discover everything: emails, phone numbers, photos from when they were 20, pictures of their partners, favorite movies, books read, favorite ice creams, sexual positions, events they participate in, new nicknames, and even the ones they were given in middle school.

After a while, two glances are enough to roughly categorize them: the egocentric, the slut, the music freak (haha), the shy one, the frustrated one, the cartoonist, the braggart, the closeted gay, the rigid fascist, etc.

You can instantly recognize the Facebook addict: they are practically always online…. it seems they are permanently at their PC, constantly posting phrases, aphorisms (taken from various portals), videos (from YouTube), quotes, jokes. FB is the first thing they think about when they open their eyes and the last before sleeping (if they don't wake up during the night!!).

Then in the evening, why go out? All the friends are there, anyway, as if they were at the pub but without getting drunk and spending 50 € at a time in places or transfers from one side of the city to the other. C'est plus facile, no? And then, if you really want to see someone you create an "event", complete with date and appointment et voilà... whoever's there is there.

This instant-book, written by Alessandro Q. Ferrari, published by Castelvecchi, I dedicate it to you. You, who are on Facebook but don't have the courage to admit it ;-)

To you who once had a fairly normal life, until someone asked you the fateful question: "what? Are you telling me you're not on Facebook?!"

There are two options: either you quit after reading this book or you'll never stop.