My dear children, I am leaving. Thomas d’Orazio, 51, lives in Pennsylvania, and officially “left” his family. No abandonment of a surprise domicile at the Véronique Sanson – “Michel, I go out to buy cigarettes” – but an assumed departure from the family group.
“I can’t read it all, I can no longer bear to have to laugh or love or add hearts to each thought, photo or joke sent here”, wrote, to his two daughters twenty -year -old, “the old grumpy Born before the laptops “.
Irony of history, trying to resume his digital destiny in hand, this father generated a global buzz, his eldest daughter having published a screenshot of his message on the networks. Children are wonderful. Result: 16 million views and thousands of humans, aware of their own alienation, expressing on the internet their support for this gesture of bravery and defending the right to disconnection. Shadoks will appreciate.
My Dad Seriously smells this to our family Groupchat Im Crying https://t.co/em70wvkhti
According to the last BVA barometer on hyperconnection , the French spend an average of 4 h 49 per day in front of a screen, a figure which amounts to 7:13 For executives.
Thomas d’Orazio therefore asks us this question: to preserve ourselves, failing to be able to leave a professional messaging, can we resign from a group bringing together his family? Would it not be considered as proof of disinterest, worse, disenchantment, or as an act of socially unacceptable misanthropy?
Whatsapp discussion groups may be studied by anthropologists from the third millennium to try to unravel the mystery of Homo Iphonus. Like historians of yesteryear decrypting hieroglyphs, they will scratch the top of the skull in front of these tombs of vocal messages, memes of Hugh Grant or John Wick (hitman interpreted by Keanu Reeves) and absurd exchanges linked to the lag between stakeholders (“At what time we meet? – Yes, I take the train station from Lyon”).
“Poetry alert” at 10 pm
But they will learn a lot from the uses of the condominium (“to the resident of 3 e : Thursday at 3 am, no, we don’t want a woman like you nor visit the Connemara” , Emoji head that smokes), from the republican school (“demonstration of support on Saturday in front of the town hall against the suppression of the positions of Aesh and the vegetarian menus”, emoji raised) and family rites (“for the cousinade of this Weekend, thank you for keeping uncle away from the beer and karaoke shooter, emoji crane).
In his latest show, moreover (broadcast on Canalplay), Gad Elmaleh entrusted his dismay at these multipart discussions. “We make groups for the slightest opportunity, for anything. We organize a simple dinner, we create a group. I can’t take it anymore, I’m fed up, I go out of the groups.” The most dreaded being the one Parents of students, when “Maman Bérénice” launches her “poetry alert” to the CE2 class, at 10 pm, to recover the text of the frog and the crocodile, whose recitation is scheduled the next day.
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