Accessibility Problems in the 21st Century

Lately as I’m trying to create music and update my website and finish up school work for the end of the year I have realized that I am becoming to accessible. People are able to get a hold of me too easily with the rise of the internet and text messaging. The other day I was working on a song late at night and someone sent me an IM, of course iChat chirped reminding me that I have an unread IM, so I close the instant message and continued my work. I then receive another IM from the person exclaiming that they I know I’m on there and they want to shoot the breeze. This person continues to message me becoming more and more upset that I’m not answering them and me becoming so annoyed to the point that I close iChat and try to finish my work. This is no isolated incident; I receive text messages and messages on my social networks all the time that I simply do not have time to answer. I’m starting to treat these like my email inbox, I will reply to them when I have the chance but I really have things I need to get done, people don’t seem to understand that I’m not available at their every beckoning call. There comes a point where I hit the hard switch on my laptop that kills the WIFI and I finally try to finish my work. Otherwise I feel like I’m just treading water, I go nowhere and get nothing done. Does the internet revolution require new time and social management skills? Are we as a whole becoming to accessible?