Are we men or dashboards? 600 km with the GSX-S1000GT at the Suzuki Social Trip

While I’m in Tuscany, however, I have the Suzuki Social Trip rules sent to me via Whatsapp e I age 102 in a nanosecond, out of disappointment. Inventing and photographing the itinerary is the least, damn it. Here there are a series of tests to be done towards which I don’t feel at all inclined, on the contrary, I get hives. Simply put, you have to be social. Being social means to be familiar with Instagram, with videos, with talking to yourself aimed at a device, almost always a smartphone. I started writing and taking pictures for magazines in the early 90s, so communication has always been a concept for me compared to paper and newsagents. But, as in all things, there is an evolution and now journalism means making videos. People have less and less desire to read, rather they watch videos, which however must be short. Plus they have to be free. Paper magazines sell less and less and we old journalists of the past watch the newsstands close in amazement, so we wonder what we will do when we grow up. In my case, I had tried to be a social man, but I was soon inhibited by a number of things: The hater who insult me ​​even if I write harmless things, for which I have discovered that a large part of humanity is not serene; i blogger who spend most of their lives talking on smartphones rather than with human beings in the flesh, and who act on the basis of likes, whatever they do; and the disappointment in realizing that all the effort made to become a journalist, complete with the exam to enter the register of professionals, it was practically useless because today anyone can be a journalist of himself, even if you can’t write. So, after having some familiarity with Facebook, I ran away from it, but now they ask me to post a lot of things on instagram. This race is won by overcoming many tests, including that of those who get the most like. And on the evening of March 30, in Sestri Levante, I will be able to invite five followers to have an aperitif with me. Too bad I have no followers! I speak with Gualdani: “But are you stupid to send me to ‘this stuff? I’ve never done these things!”. “Don’t worry. You make the videos, then you send them to me who post them on Motociclismo’s Instagram. You’ll see that you get some likes”.