The anxious feeling you get when you are having trouble connecting your laptop or mobile device to a wireless network.
OMG...I can't connect to the Internet...I don't know what's wrong...I've been offline for the last ten minutes...I've got a bad case of disconnection anxiety!
The ultimate lure of electronic toys, is to simply not care about them anymore! I got this new word from the Monday, Jan 25, 2010 "Cathy" newspaper comic strip, where her husband says "Financial tools...organizational tools...networking tools...writing tools...scheduling tools.." and "With my new phone, the clutter of our lives is finally getting under control!" and Cathy says,"You've had your new phone for a week. How is the clutter more under control?", and he says" I don't care about it anymore." and Cathy thinks in a thought baloon, "Ah...the ultimate lure: disconnectivity."
He was so electronically and technicallyadvanced, that he tired of it all, and embraced disconnectivity.
When people assume their way of doing things goes-without-saying, like that Christmas is necessarily in December (or in January) or that everyone celebrates Christmas, and which assumption, in-turn, leads to social isolation.
-- So glad you could finally come to our party this year.
-- Yeah, it took some getting-used-to...first Christmas, and then...Christmas-in-January.
-- What did you think we were celebrating on January 6?
-- I read that that's when Jesus traditionally got circumcised.
-- So that's what you thought today was about? I think you may be experiencing cultural disconnection.
-- Just as long as that's the only disconnection I end-up experiencing.