Reddit

That the internet is not a good thing.

Twenty years ago, even some more, the internet was something that brought me hope for humanity: A democratic network of knowledge open to anyone for both participation and access. I truly expected this to improve the lifes of those in less fortunate countries and backgrounds, and help reduce conflicts between people by understanding each other.

Yeah, a bit too much "we are the world", but you read about the pioneers of the internet and this was a shared belief.

Turns out it was like Cyberpunk, but like boring.

"Create an account to continue" being considered normal for everything.

They're so certain they even dropped the "please" at this point.

Answer's easy though. Signing up to advertisement delivery platforms, wether it be TikTok, or YouTube or even Amazon Prime with comemrcials.

Return of nicotine addiction of the youth.

Latest trend besides the god damned vapes: nicotine-infused toothpicks the kids in 7th grade are casually twirling around their mouths during class.

Holding a mobile telephone horizontally in front of yourself and shouting at it, then moving it to the side of your head, holding it sticking out from your ear horizontally to listen to what the other person says... instead of just holding it in one place to do both, like a telephone.

Coal rollers. The active embrace of our collective demise.

Normies on the internet.

It used to be exclusively nerds, geeks, freaks, and weirdos.

I miss those days 😮‍💨

People using their actual fucking name on the internet.

Fascism.

Everything constantly getting worse at an accelerating rate.

Nothing. I'm thirty, not retarded.

The kids are posting, and I'm too old for this shit.

Nothing really, it’s just hard to care because everything is what we already had but with advertising and spying everywhere.

Literally everything that punk and grunge tried to warn us about in the 80s and 90s regarding corporatism becoming reality and everyone being okay with it as long as they have shiny new toys to play with every year.

Omfg, if you're over 25, that's when you start struggling to understand technology, because the alzheimers is starting to set in? Things are getting dumber, not smarter.

Tipping at kiosks.............

I'm no longer friends with MySpace Tom.

I mean the question stings a little but ultimately times have changed quite a bit since the 90s. And I'm 30 so that's all my last century reference. Genuinely one I didn't expect is so much stuff like fashion, music and whatnot from my childhood being this popular among today's teenagers. Also people used to be more considerate using public transport. Listening to music on speaker was almost unheard of and now it happens all the time around me. Oh and restaurants with qr code only menus can piss right off.

Using a phone exclusively.

I don't get how people will do all of their business on a tiny phone. Like anything that needs more then a few sentences of typing, I'll go to my computer to do instead, same with filling out forms.

Same goes for phone gaming. Touch controls are always ass.

Nothing, who do you think taught them how to do it?

The fanatical rise of facism, racism and mysoginy

People in this thread are answering the picture of a reddit post....