Over Communication

We live in a world now where if you choose you can be in contact with everybody you know pretty much all of the time.

So this leads to people walking down the street, staring at their phone handset in order to get the buzz of having someone message them to find out some trivial information that really could have waited until later. Worse still are people talking on their phone as they walk, also about something that is not important and really did not need to be done right now.

It also destroys the ability to plan ahead and organise, going to the shops? Make a list! Why do that when you can stand in the aisle using your phone discussing with your partner "have we run out of toilet roll". How is this more efficient?

Has this made the world a better place? Because communication is more instant and accessible it now gets treated without thought, on the one hand it is nice to be accessible, but surely there are times when you do not want to have the disturbance - yet some people seem to crave this constant inane interruption.

These technologies have provided some useful features, access to information on the move like maps, or location based search are truly useful. Being able to update your facebook status, mark your position with a location tracking site, or never be out of touch with the stream of messages less so.

Will the tide ever turn? Behind all this are the mobile companies who are all too happy to have their consumers pay for bandwidth to facilitate all this, and it seems the consumer is all too happy to be trapped in this business model. The current generation do look trapped into something that they think will make them happier but in the end probably leads to a degree of misery, hidden pressure, and frustration.