Well - we're all different and prize different things, but I take a different view to connectivity than you do, though i agree about resenting intrusions when they happen. But if you don't dish out your number willy-nilly, you don't get many calls. The same goes for email addresses. Keep the circulation as low as possible and intrusions from scammers are very rare.
Three years ago, i foolishly ventured on a cross country ebike adventure on a god forsaken moor in Kielder Forest. The terrain got worse and worse at a place called Scotchcoultard Waste. The name should have piqued my survival instinct, but as the landscape turned more and more alien, with huge two foot high and wide nodules of centuries old moss, the sunk costs problem took over my thinking - i would not turn back, and i shouldered the ebike, which could nolonger be pushed or dragged, and I stumbled onward.
it was July, and the sun was hot. After two hours of this, and covering perhaps a mile, i was drained, desperate for water, and pretty cheesed off. I was rather glad to be able to call up a map on my mobile, and use the GPS on the map to work out the shortest and least harsh way to a forest road. I had no signal, but i had downloaded the map earlier. I really think if i had been taken ill there, i would still be lying as a skeleton in that wasteland. I was so thirsty that i almost got down on hands and knees to drink like a dog from a puddle when i found one.
I was seventy then, and still have my old Mountain Leadership Certificate, so I knew better than to put myself in that position, but I had just got the ebike and had set out from home without preparation for a random , cross country ride. What an idiot! But the phone's smart features got me out of it.
The other thing is that you can get incredibly cheap contracts from companies like Giffgaff, so having the phone, once you've bought one is really cheap.
Not this place, but a little bit like it:
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