The obsessive hyper-communication behavior of people today should be considered a mental disorder

The "human" society wanted it that way.
And and now the "human" society complains about.
The "human" society is "peculiar" one.

Then 90% of first and second world people should be in a mental hospital right now, me included. This is society, what society evolved into, there's little to do, we can't change the way things are. The most scaring thing is that I'm pretty much aware of it, but I can't behave differently

I did once have someone upset at me for disabling the "FAST6191 is writing a reply" indicator.

That made me giggle.

I was not aware that communications devices issued electric shocks to one's nether regions if one does not reply within a preset time. All my devices can be placed on "mute" and ignored for as long as I like, but I admit they're a little old and possibly outdated, and I may be out of touch with the current state of things.

It's easy. I just don't reply immediately.

gotta love do not disturb mode

i will give my opinion in a few weeks

@drenal for sure

People usually think I hate them, get offended and recriminate me because of not replying immediately, many times relatives. It leads to headaches really. I couldn't care less about replying immediately or not, but I do care about not getting into bad terms with people, an electric shock would be way more tolerable than people later treating you like you screwed them or something.

It's a societal sickness.

I tend to turn my phone off at times and people get mad at me. To bad for them.

I think it can be linked to several mental disorders but doesn't warrant a label of its own. Same as how I feel about that new classification "gaming addiction" thing.

Since a few months ago I stated acting like sexy rich girls. I leave people waiting my reply, I don't reply, I don't open messages... too boring. I just reply when I want.

Sounds more like you have a problem with your family and "friends" not respecting your boundaries, not the society in general. Nobody I know gets bent out of shape if I don't reply immediately, because people know I'm at work, or with my kids, or asleep, or can't be fucking arsed at the moment and that's my prerogative. It's understood that if it's something actually important they will call, and that texts are not critical or urgent. Getting pissy because you don't drop everything you're doing just to reply blatantly says "my idle chitchat is more important than anything you could be up to in your life" which is fucked up. You need to find better friends, bro.

Human behavior evolves over time. Just because you are against something doesn't mean it should be a mental disorder.

@sarkwalvein maybe theyre just the type to get angry when you arent constantly paying attention to them.

I'm completely fine with the online communication methods of today.
Fuck letters and shifty postmen.

I turn my phone off, or silence it, when I dont want to communicate.

Let us broadly categorize everything associated with constant, instantaneous over-communication (chat apps, blog posts, Instagram/Facebook/whatever) under the umbrella of "social media." I think social media addiction is actually a real thing - there is a lot of ongoing research regarding this. The general conclusion is that yes, it is 100% detrimental to psychological health. But humans are social beings that instinctively crave interaction, meaning that we are hardwired to get that little dopamine hit from it - which is what makes the whole thing so insidious.

Honestly, as someone who is rapidly approaching their 30's, most people my age have realized the above and entirely ignore most/all of these communication mediums, at least with anyone outside of their small social circle. Younger people are much more likely to overuse that type of thing, because it is new and exciting, and they haven't yet had the life experience to understand that it's just a massive waste of time.

If I met someone my age who was still overly involved in all that stuff, I would consider it a massive red flag.

So, basically, you're certainly not in the wrong, my dude

To be honest I don't even own a phone. I login to a texting/calling service as I feel the need to. I used to have a phone, but I got tired of people bugging me all the time.
Generally, If someone can't take that you left them on read or just haven't gotten back to them; Then they need to chill out because they're too invested.

As everyone else has pretty much said... This sounds way more of a you problem than technology. It seems a little bit off to demand that society regresses years of progress just because you aren't able to adequately convey your need for a bit of down time.

Turn your phone off; tell them it died....because you held down the power button.