We are going through what some are calling the technological revolution. Or are we going through the disenfranchised or disconnected revolution? The more we get connected trough Facebook, Twitter, e-mail, and the cell phone, the more we get disconnected with the world that is happening around us.

We talk to people around the world and what we may type in our Blackberries or text messages through our cell phone will now be able to be translated into many different languages so people we don’t even know will be able to get our messages. We can talk to someone of a different language around the world without knowing the languages but we don’t know, or have ever talked to, our neighbour.

I have to wonder if some of the crime is not because of some of this disenfranchising, or disconnection. Our children and grandchildren play violent video games without learning the consequence of killing.

Is that why maybe the people jogging through parks with their mp3 players plugged to their ears, not involved in what is happening around them, get mugged? Not that I condone the actions, but just maybe if those people paid attention to their surroundings they might realize they are being followed or see the pervert hiding in the bush.

Then there are the cell phone users. How annoying can they get? You see three or four young people together, supposedly friends, all talking to someone on their cell phones. Or maybe they are talking to each other, because they haven’t learned to talk face to face so are doing it by phone, as they walk down the street or sit in a café. How uncomfortable if you are the third wheel and no call.

What is even more annoying is being involved in a meeting, supposedly of importance — at least you assume because you have been asked by them to be there. Those you are meeting with take a personal phone call from their spouse or girlfriend/boyfriend when on your and/or company time. If those you are asked to meet with find you, or what you are to meet about, no more important than bringing home a quart of milk after work, then please don’t ask them to attend your meeting.