Why is 21st C life so stressful

Every generation has pressure and impossibilities I d rather be worrying about a forgotten password or a difficult signing in online than WW2 and my children being sent away for their safety or shovelling coal out of a coal shed every day to keep the house warm or washing the clothes by hand each week carrying hot water upstairs to have a daily wash in

These online things are just annoyance similar to seeing a bus pull away just as you get to the bus stop they can happen to everyone
Just a tad dramatic to say you are going through ‘pain’ to work computer stuff out
Thank your lucky stars you only have computer annoyances

My Dh spends whole days trying to insure cars, houses etc.
It’s a very stressful nightmare.

“Last week I bought a new vacuum and attempting to register a guarantee online proved impossible. I spent a few hours on this and ended up so frustrated, stressed I finally gave up.

Trying to change the house and home insurance turned out to be a very lengthy business as we thought it would be better to speak to someone on the phone.

Something I say often ftm420.

Yesterday I spent hours trying to get through to someone regarding my new contract for gas and electric.

Then it was my broadband contract, replying to an e-mail I had received saying my contract was about to expire. I don't have a mobile contract but they kept putting me though to people who wanted to upgrade my mobile account.

After about 90 minutes the issue still wasn't resolved because there were two issues and they could only deal with one at a time, two days apart. Even though they e-mailed me saying my contract was about the end- the actual expiry date was June- so they told me to ring back in a few weeks!

Then it was my TV license- they thanked me for renewing it in an e-mail but no money had gone from my account. Again, I was worried the license hadn't actually renewed so I rang up.
It isn't due to be renewed for three more weeks!

Of course my mum and grandparents had very stressful lives but that sort of thinking doesn't help people who find negotiating on-line contracts and e-mails very difficult and stressful, maybe not in the same way but these things can be very challenging for some of us.

If I have to login to any more 'portals', I shall fall through one! The pain you go through, submitting your email, your ID and a 4 digit code to generate a one-time-code that never arrives, having already had to ask what my ID was [I don't have my account set up yet, so why would I already have an ID?]. All to get your invoices refunded.

It's not the processes you have to go through which are the actual causes of the annoyance, it's the scammers and hackers who make all this extra screening necessary. This is a huge industry which is making life more complicated for us all.

Doesn’t bother me ftm420 I suppose I am used to it happening occasionally, most of my interactions online/phone are pretty smooth.
There are other areas of my life causing me a degree of concern involving real people.

My grandmother was the widow of a miner. She was left with four children of her own, and four from his first wife, who died of exhaustion. She had a coal ration but not much else. A very hard life

That was real stress MOnica. Rather like my many times great grandmother who had her baby baptised and buried her husband in 1809. I would say annoyance with computers, which pales into insignificance, comes from impatience. I had horrible stress when I was working - I can cope with computer saying ‘no’ now and again.

Each century has its own stress. My great grandmother's stress in the late 19th/early 20th century was making sure there was food on the table for her 5 children after her husband died. He was a labourer, so no pension, life assurance or other means of support.