There is a strange confusion about the desirability and the danger of human communication.We have a landline and 1 or 2 mobile phone yet we often set them so that only certain people can phone us.I did that until a gas engineer tried to phone me on his mobile and could not get through.A friend does not answer if I phone her on my mobile.
Yet people also complain nobody phones them.And we have email and texting too along with instant messaging.An FB messaging
For some people, this means checking phones every few minutes.Others give out a sound like an aeroplane taking off when a message comes in.Naturally, that takes precedence over any real living human you are with.
There’s a deep ambivalence here about wanting to be wanted and fearing scams and trickery.I have recently had an upsurge in people telling me I’ve been in an accident.I tell them I was killed!That ends it,
We know more people live alone.In a way that is bad but also it means you eat when you want.Watch your favourite programmes or in my case never use the TV set at all.
But there is nobody who knows where you are and maybe nobody who really knows you deeply.As friends and spouses die, it gets harder to find new people to relate to.And do you want to nurse another person through to death? Maybe if you really love them.
How my heart sings 
When phone calls were expensive, they were valued and used with care. Now, their cheapness is exploited by all those hoping to take money from us. Similarly, with TV there are a hundred channels, almost all dire and existing only for the advertising they carry. The same with the so-called ‘free’ internet. I feel that advertising, for which we pay in everything we buy, is now the largest ‘tax’ of all – and it does not go to accountable Governments but to unaccountable Corporations.
Very wise comment.Mike.Especially that we pay for all the advertising without knowing.And people exploit each other sometimes.Like being annoyed if you don’t respond fast enough to their message or FB post.Or feeling they can phone you night and day with their problems.Yes, it is a rather dangerous world we are in.We cannot escape easily from intrusions.