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I’m getting old
There is a point in life when you all of a sudden realise you are getting old. It can occur when you are tiling a floor and struggle to come up after having spent some hours on your knees. Or when you hear youngsters discuss social media, or even when you think of all the Renault models you’ve experienced when they were new. Well, that last example plays me into the hands.
Early in summer I actually had the tile floor experience, but shall keep the details to myself. Social media is something else, and is not to be missed by anyone living an active life these days. Whether it’s Twitter, Instagram or Facebook, we communicate a lot. The difference with communication of the past is that social media is quick and volatile. Anything published on it is hardly ever considered to be news than a day or two. By this time we’re used to news presenting itself to us, and while searching the world wide web for things Losange Magazine related it’s easy to stumble upon the most fantastic kind of input. But when I publish a message on Facebook myself, which would invite people to do a Google search by themselves; they often ask me for a link. In my view that may be just a bit too easy, but modern men is just used to that sort of thing now.
Recently I received an anonymous email message (that’s how the modern world communicates nowadays) as a reaction to the digitally published Losange Magazine. The letter writer made a clear point about what he found of the digital magazine: absolutely worthless. But in between the lines of his reaction I found that he just had not been able to find what he was looking for with a mere mouse click: a scale model of the Renault Clio. A Google search on ‘Clio model’ had sent him over to Losange Magazine, which no doubt contains the words ‘Clio’ and ‘model’. Now, I would have clicked the ‘shopping’ tag on top of the page to actually find webshops offering those scale models. But the thing that had frustrated this man was that he hadn’t found what he was looking for within a few seconds.
I’ve experienced something similar when I privately announced to visit Losange Passion in France, adding that I had space left in the car for an extra passenger. I was indeed surprised when somebody replied ‘Link Tony?’. Type in ‘Losange Passion’ on Google and the official website will come up and provide you with all the necessary information. It seems even that may be too much asked. But then, I’m getting old…
Tony Vos, editor/publisher Losange Magazine
