The Most Accessible Generation

I had this idea crossing through my mind today. I get irriated quite easily, so I am not the type of person you will be able to melt through negging and begging. However, whenever my phone rings or pings I get delighted that someone is in need of me or anxious if there was a trouble coming my way, but I don't get irritated, not as much although the constant messages/call coming in = people nagging.

We constantly scream to people close to us that we need privacy. But we are the generation who is OK with anyone breaking in  through our physical barrier and talk to us on any time of the day. We are so easily accessible through our smartphone, chat group and internet. It’s a hypocrisy really, that we allow people to barged  in our privacy 24x7 from our gadgets  yet we distance ourselves from the people around us. Internet and its accompanying gadgets impact our on social life has been discussed over and over again in many articles and researches in both positive and negative light.

 However, I just want to put in my share of view. I think if we should stop and think how peaceful life can be if we just allow ourselves to be inaccessible at time we don’t want to without feeling guilty that we turned off our phone. Without that constant worry that someone will need us while we are away and our absence will cause so much loss. In olden days, when people go on vacation that means they are not contactable that easily even after the arrival of telephone and hand phone It’s quite expensive for long distance and some SIM Card doesn't have a good nationwide/worldwide partner coverage. If they leave home, they leave everything else, without the guilt of being inaccessible, and those who need them might be forced to make new connections with other people present at scene to help them out. But in this day and age we feel we should be able to be contacted at all times, like the world can’t function without us and we can’t function without our smart phones and tablets.It makes us feel important yet it makes us anxious and worried at all time, we never get a 100% rest without disturbance.

 The latest generations does not look at the time to call each other, whatever time the other person is online or as long as the phone is reachable, its is an OK time to call them. Regardless of what they might be doing or feeling at the time, they cant help but to pick up the phone or reject the phone, pretended not to read (if there are no ‘read’ alert that is) and risk the guilty feeling when they find out later that it was indeed an important call.

When we are enjoying our time with family and friends or our ‘me time’ sometimes we get angry when people disturb us, but when a phone rings, we will be very eager to pick up. It seems for us that the world is allowed to come only through one gate. When we are present we are absent and when we are absent we are present. 

What do you guys think? Should we learn to turn off our phone unapologetic-ally? Do we deserve the privacy?