Good Neighbors Are an Important Part of Home Security

It's fairly common for older people to say that people are less friendly than they used to be. While it's easy to dismiss this kind of statement as some sort of misplaced nostalgia, there are many indications that people are at least less connected in certain ways than they used to be. This can have profound implications for one's home security.



Think back to a time before computerization, if you can—before credit cards, before e-mail, and even before answering machines. The implication is that so many more transactions had to be carried out in person. When was the last time you visited your bank, for instance, except maybe for ATM withdrawals? Before computerization, you would have waited on line for a teller to handle all of your business personally. Especially in a small town, it's very likely that you would have run into people you knew waiting in line at the bank, and that you probably also knew some of the tellers. The same would have been true at the grocery store or carrying out any number of business transactions.



Nowadays, with so much able to be done online, it's obvious that the number of opportunities for random human interaction these days has been drastically reduced in the name of "efficiency." In fact, anyone who has spent any time in a foreign country where computerization is less present will tell you that not being able to order groceries online, having to go to the bank to deposit one's paycheck, and having to rely on other people to complete the tasks done online in many other countries is one of the things that facilitates human interaction there. Some commentators have even argued that this is one of the things contributing to the death—cultural, economic, and otherwise—of small towns in the United States. The theory goes that the main benefit of small towns is their close knit nature. With the advent of so many transactions able to be handled impersonally through computers, small towns really just have no benefits compared with urban areas and are thus dying out.



A corollary consequence of this cultural trend is that we are relying on our neighbors less and less. The old stereotype that we could go to our neighbors to borrow a cup of sugar seems to have totally died out in the Internet age. The fact that we are relying more on people and businesses based on the Internet to meet our everyday needs means that the people who know most about what is physically going on around our homes and therefore our security—our neighbors—are being more isolated from our lives. While home alarm systems are the electronic solution we are increasingly using to compensate for this fact, our neighbors continue to provide a free, and friendly, source of home security monitoring that should be used in conjunction with electronic solutions. It's important to get to know one's neighbors and let them know that you are there for them just as you expect them to be there for you.



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