Connectedness

It is your state of being connected so you add "ness" to it: connectedness...
We dont understand this. Well we dont yet. We try to at least...
And "we" are the people that are now older then 35
We dont because we come from an era where being and especially staying connected was not an issue. We took our pushbikes to drive to the house of  a friend to just find that they were not home, and then drive the whole way back. Unbothered... why should we have been bothered?
We waited NEXT to the phone,... there was a string attached. Tell this now to a 12 year old and they look at you as if you would come from the moon... thats the point we do!
Now we know who is where doing what with whom and for how long... and how many people like this, join in or will be doing it too....
We didnt really care back in the good old day. Being unconnected had its advantages. Being undisturbed for days, weeks, keeping ourselves busy.
We drew pictures, painted, did physical sports... wrote letters! I still have a collection of letters from back then. And some of my friends kept the letters I sned them. With one friend we made like a book, her letters and mine togehter... A thick stack of nostalgia!
The generations entering the workforce now have a different way of seeing their connectivity being a vital part of life. Well, thats logical, they grew up being connected.
For them its vital that they know who is doing what where with whom how long and how many people like it or find it cool or find it interesting enough to share a comment about the state or activity the persons are in...
Incredible no?
Well, it has become a way of being.
Some people take it that far that they share everything with their online community.
Privacy?
So when this generation enters the workforce and come "in the real world" like after school or college; they are confronted with a different set of rules and behavioral codes. Because at the workplace, not everything is shared and the time spend there is the companies time, thats why you get a salary...
Bosses dont understand then why the young generation sneeks away to still turn on the iphone and get connected... or that they hack through the servers setup in order to get to their favorite social media site anyway... eventhough company policy forbids this...
For this generation all these rules are like being in prison. Or being catapulted to the stoneage.
But why restrict it? If even, as per the previous post of an artickle we found, millenials prefer staying connected to a large salary...
We suggest not to restrict it but to use it for good measure.
The workforce is even encouraged to use social media. But the use should be for a certain part to aid and help the corporation. They have to send the right messages out into their social media circkles.
This way its like a compromise.
"You can use your social connectedness, but we share too: you talk the right message also about us."
Us this connectedness to your companies advantage; dont let it be used against you!