Caller ID - The Identification We've Lost

With the great Caller ID technology has come a whirlwind of good as well as evil.

This technology probably started out as a great way to track down people who had nothing better to do than to terrorize other folks over the phone, oftentimes leaving a multitude of obscene messages. But like anything else, all the good it could bring has been outweighed by an ominous cloud which has rained down another lethal dose of degradation to civility.

If you're honest, you'll admit that you've lost a piece of your own soul in the midst of this Caller ID era. How many times have you checked your Caller ID and decided that the person on the other end wasn't important enough to answer? And even if you were too busy at that moment, you never returned their call...PERIOD. Or what's even worse, you answered the phone but rudely pretended you had a bad connection.

Don't get me wrong I love technology and the advancements it has brought us. However, I'm afraid it will also bring our whole civilization to a moral end. People have chosen gadgets over good relationships. We'd rather talk into a headset or look at a photo in "real time" rather than hop into a car and look into someone's eyes.

That's why I still love small towns and if I'm lucky, I'll retire and spend my last days in some quaint little town like Pine Mountain, Georgia, or a little village tucked away in the mountains of Clayton, Georgia, where my husband and I go every year on our sabbatical. Technology does not have as much of a stranglehold on those communities...yet.

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