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# Harder To Reach Than The Queen
- URL: https://alxndrr.com/harder-to-reach-than-the-queen/
- Published: 2011-01-31T00:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2011-01-31T00:00:00.000Z
- Author: Alex van der Weij
- Tags: Tech

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This is an old blog post I found again. I thought it would be fun to put it back on my site. Please keep in mind that this was written by a younger, naive version of myself, and that it may contain opinions and remarks I no longer stand behind in 2025\. Some posts were originally written in Dutch and were automatically translated.

On an average day I get about 20 text messages, 50 [emails](https://web.archive.org/web/20110322043655/http://www.alxndr.nl/contact) \- excluding social network emails - and I am contacted about 10 times on WhatsApp.

That calling is still popular is clear from the fact that "The Club Can't Handle" blasts through my phone speakers about ten times a day. And besides the usual ways of contacting me, I am also bothered through social media like [Twitter](https://web.archive.org/web/20110322043655/http://www.twitter.com/alxndrr), Hyves and [Facebook](https://web.archive.org/web/20110322043655/http://www.facebook.com/alxndrrrr).

Enough ways to stalk me.

So why am I harder to reach than the Queen?

BECAUSE ALL THAT STUFF MAKES NOISE!

My life mainly happens at night, and during the day I do little more than sleep in and be lazy. And that is a good little life. Still, two beloved little nuisances make sure I rarely get any peace: my iPhone and iPad.

They are always within reach, including the sounds they make. Push notifications are a gift and a curse when they keep me informed about the social status of my friends and when they kick me awake in bed. Every day, my room becomes a symphony of different Apple product sounds.

It starts on my iPhone with a Twitter push notification, and two seconds later I get exactly the same sound and message on my iPad.

Annoying.

So sometimes I simply choose not to be reachable. I turn everything off or hide it under a pile of old clothes. Being reachable is a choice, and if you do not like that choice, send me a letter.