I think it is healthy to want to be invisible. We are visible when we post or enter chat. That is when people should see us.

We are lulled into this idea that it is OK that everyone knows where we are at all times, and what we do at all times.

It is NOT OK. We are breeding a new generation that will not be able to set healthy boundaries, that will think any information should be known to the world.

A forum I went to forced everyone to be visible as logged in because they thought it was for the best. I had to leave. It was smaller than this so you couldn't hide among other people's user names.

I really dislike when people break these boundaries. I have an online friend who has my phone number for iMessage. I told her a million times to check if I am available and also rather use other ways of contacting me if possible. But she thinks it is convenient to message me at all times of day because that is what iMessage is for, she says... She doesn't just send one text, she spams me. Even if I don't reply. I will have to block her soon.

She is the younger generation and she sees no difference in texting me whenever, and looking if I am online and if I am, then message me. For her it is the same. For me the second one is my choice of being contacted, but being mass texted isn't the same for me because it goes straight to me wherever I am and whatever I am busy with.