Back in the old days, BT; (Before Twitter) unless you told someone where you were, they couldn’t get in touch with you if you didn’t want to be found.
Today, with texting and the ubiquitous I-Phone or Blackberry or when you’re in a car that includes a navigation system, it’s getting harder and harder to ‘get lost’. Even ‘robo-calling’ during a political season will generate so much spending that half of the country could be hired to call the other half.
No matter where you go, someone can always know where you are even if you choose not to answer a page or a call.
Let’s not even talk about that pesky ‘Google Earth’ picture that shows you picking your nose on the sidewalk in front of your house which now can be seen worldwide. Sometimes you just want to scream “Don’t bug me!”
We’re disturbed when we hear someone else’s music in our private hearing space. We don’t like when we can smell someone else’s heavy perfume.
The national ‘Do Not Call’ registry has helped us all by letting tele-marketers know that we don’t want be solicited on the phone. For the most part, it worked! This is one of the few government programs that actually helps people and doesn’t line a politician’s pocket. This concept should be used to enhance our privacy because we, as a people, have gotten too sensitive to our fellow humans, bless their obviously different look, beliefs or mannerisms.
Let’s get behind a national ‘Do Not Disturb’ registry.
It’s just like a do not disturb sign in your hotel room. It could be a universal sign like a person holding their hands to their ears with a diagonal slash through it.
It’s not only for personal use. Hang it on the City, County or State line. Countries can hang it on their borders when immigration becomes a problem.
It says ‘you’ve got your own space, now don’t disturb mine.’
Wear the lapel pin to let people know how you feel. The problem is that they’ve got to get close to read it.
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