The case of a restaurant owner from the Lodi area who committed suicide following a controversy that erupted on social media sparked debate about the dangers inherent in digital communication. Vittorio Feltri also talks about this in his column published in Il Giornale on January 18th. The editorial director emphasizes, however, that social networks are not the cause, but rather the mirror of the human soul. “The hate that social networks contain is what overflows from our souls – wrote Feltri – We don’t simply have it with us, we carry it within us. I don’t believe that the purpose of social media is to teach, teach, instruct, and abolish hatred in society. However, it is never other people’s opinions of us that define who we are. We have to rise above all this. What defines us are our actions, that is, our behaviors.”
Then, Feltri goes on to analyze in particular the story of Giovanna Pedretti “I believe that you had personal weaknesses, that the controversy in which you were the protagonist was not the fundamental cause that led you to make an extreme choice. It was an event that contributed to worsening a previous discomfort that had never been addressed. It is too convenient to make social media, influencers or journalists a kind of scapegoat for the guilt that belongs to all of us.”
Source: IL Tempo
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