Electronic age is a frustrating one

I am 75 years of age and growing angrier by the day in regards to this electronic age we are a part of.

When you go to phone a company and are told to press this button and that button and to talk to a recording which continually tells me that it’s not clear as to what I am trying to say or looking for. Most companies no longer have numbers where you can reach a human being, which they consider as a blessing, being it’s only our payments they want to see arriving on time. On making several calls, after you’ve waited 10 minutes to speak with someone, it’s not uncommon for the phone to go dead.

There are times where I would like to throw the phone right out the window, especially when we are continually asked if we would be willing to take a short survey.

While it’s never been proven as to exactly where the cancer far too many of us end up dying from, I believe it’s due to all the stress we are being put through, and what one must deal with in existing in this insane world we live in today. One where direct communication is no longer accepted, being that we can text each other.

Now they are finding out that young people who play these games and text for up to eight hours a day, they are unhappy, more lonely and more apt to turn to suicide. This I found to be interesting. The worst part of all this, as I see it, is the fact we, as citizens, give into all of this; where if we had refused from the beginning, these companies would have had no choice but to meet our demands.

When I purchase a phone, I expect to receive one where you can only