The three texts I will analyze are argumentative texts and they are about some reflections and considerations of Roberto Cotroneo’s book “Tweet di un discorso amoroso”. It is one of his new works and it refers to an analysis of the new world, characterized by social network such as Twitter and Facebook. In these texts the negative aspects of social networks come into surface. They change people’s life: relationships are different from the past, people interact in a different way. They lost the value of words and they confront each other through computer and mobile phone. In particular, “Tweet di un discorso amoroso” isn’t a book, but it is a collection of sentences and thoughts about the meaning of communication in our times. People don’t make experience of live and love. In fact social networks don’t permit the necessary relationship that love requests. It implies a superficial relationship between two or more human beings. Cotroneo’s book focuses its attention on all these things. It comes into surface a relevant sentence: world is changing quickly. But the question that an intelligent person poses to himself/herself is this: “Is this change of world positive or negative?”. Reading Cotroneo’s work, we understand that the change isn’t so positive. On one side it is the symbol of progression and it gives importance to technological techniques and innovations; on the other it is the responsible of the closure of the modern society, based on individual human being. Besides Cotroneo says that all thoughts and words that we write on social networks will be completely forget soon.

I consider very interesting a comparison between social networks and dramatic monologue used in poetry during the last part of the 19^th and in the beginning of the 20^th century. Considering social networks, we can say that they are the spokesperson of human being’s emotions and feelings that are expressed in few words. Regarding the dramatic monologue, we can say that the main difference consists in the structure. In the dramatic monologue poets express what crop up in the character’s mind through the stream of consciousness. The poet uses a lot of lines and a lot of stanzas to create this effect, while people use few words to express their feelings in social networks. So the process to express feelings and emotions in the dramatic monologue is more careful and precise than in the social networks. Besides I notice that the sentences that we read in social networks are taken by other people (poets, scientists, philosophers…) while the sentences in the dramatic monologue are the product of ourself.