Traditionally, such a reverse phone look-up database used to be accessible only to the authorities, as landline based telephony was mainly provided by government agencies. But with the advent of cell phones, the services for which are provided by private players, such database today exists in the hands of non governmental parties as well. The traditional motive behind keeping a reverse phone look-up was to get details of a customer in case of an emergency.

As such, access to such database was restricted. But since nowadays, the cell phone companies have their own database; the utility of reverse phone lookup is no more confined to this traditional motive. Instead, today, such directories are utilized by different agencies to identify, classify and categorize, and reach out to suitable customer or client bases.

Telemarketers, fund raisers, debt collectors today have access to several such databases, especially of cell phone numbers, and as such their outreach has expanded significantly. Apart from the services providers, such databases are also available nowadays on the internet. Though there is no centralized such directory, a person looking for information has the option to browse several such directories, before identifying potential user bases. Such a look up on the internet does not usually come free, and in most nations, a person wishing to do such a lookup need to pay a fee to browse through such directories.

When I was younger life was easy, children played outside and adults were the ones you ran to when you were in trouble. Prank phone calls were normal, and no one minded if you were a little bit strange. That seems like a distant memory now, not only because I’ve grown but because the world has changed. The internet, as we know it, was not yet invented. We didn’t have the simple pleasures children do now, if we could have used reverse phone lookup, we would have known who to prank call back

I can think back on my childhood but, the days of yesteryear are long gone. Perhaps, it is our own fault. In harnessing the power that children have on this planet to change the world, we have changed the child. In an effort to change the future, we have showed them the world was a dangerous place. As adults, with nothing else to turn to we have asked them, to make it better. It is unfair, no longer are they allowed to be young and dumb, they must put the weight of the world on their shoulders. Not only do we want peace, we want equality and justice something trillions of people in thousands of years haven’t been able to accomplish. We set down the rules, as adults, for what is right and wrong, and give children the power to enforce our words as law. It is no wonder more children turn to drugs some even suicide, who wants be the outcast that stands in the middle of “change”.

However, it is too late to go back now. A person could look down on this, and see no good in it unable to understand how to make this better. Yet, as the leaders of the future, we have do something. No longer can we change the child, we have given them too much power. At this point, the best chance this world has, it to change the adult. If the person making the laws, were more open about what is right or wrong, the child could change his vision on how to make it better.