What modern things do you hate/dislike?

[ConradH]

I create content, but at a snail's pace. Fortunately, this is a case where 9 women really can make a baby in 1 month. Everybody with a phone/camera is a creator these days. The overall speeding up of things isn't so great. If you think about an electronic feedback system, high frequencies and a bit of delay or phase shift give you rail to rail oscillation. Society isn't so different and speed can break down political systems and/or cause wars.

 

[Telecolor 3007]

Oh yeah, "content creators". There are some that make good/intresting content, but most never reach the top. Some of the "content creators" say that television is crap, but they are making more crapier things! I'm glad that I lived in eras in which they wheren't on the internet.
I think that the smartphone (sometimes smarter then it's user) are one of the cause for internet getting low qualty. O.k., it's sometime a useful device, but I usually hate it. I have a simple phone, anyway. When I'm outside, I just want to see the world.
Some people reufes to be photographed with a film camera! I hate smartphones, but I do not refuse...

 

[devnull]

Sure, there are things I dislike, but I try to be positive and have an attitude where I embrace the world for what it is.

 

[MuseChaser]

Sure, there are things I dislike, but I try to be positive and have an attitude where I embrace the world for what it is.

The world itself is beautiful... it's embracing a lot of the things PEOPLE do that I can't do.. I think it's actually positive to identify and speak out against things we feel are detrimental to society and humanity, especially as those very things become increasingly accepted and commonplace. I'd hate to see the futures portrayed in "WALL-E," "Terminator," etc., become a new reality as we become increasingly dependent upon technology for EVERYTHING. We're already seeing evidence of decreasing self-reliance, empathy, in-person and interpersonal communication skills, and plain old common sense. I'm positive I don't want to embrace that!

 

[Ellymay]

The new fish finders. I fish to enjoy the nature, not look at a video screen.

 

[Mr Boochie]

Amen. It appears that this artform is deader than a door-nail. I'm sure someone can explain it, but I can't. It was quite a treat to be able to see a major picture for a couple bucks.

I'm guessing that the modern audience doesn't have time or patience for a slower-developing plot or artsy photography.

 

[DesertRatt]

I'm guessing that the modern audience doesn't have time or patience for a slower-developing plot or artsy photography.

Yup. That's kind of what I meant by "society speeding up." There's no patience, not time! Ever notice how FAST people are talking? Real human youtube creators all talk a mile a minute, and fill their talks with mostly unhelpful, excessive, words, but it is high speed chatter. Ads have more cuts than they have ever had. I think 4 or 4 per second now is not unusual. The infamous "BUY" button can be accessed at 2 am from bed.

 

[titanstats]

Movies, politics, both crap for years now imo.

 

[DesertRatt]

Humans gave up the reins to their own society. Maybe by laziness, or lack of care - I don't know. But humans are just passengers on the ship being steered by people they can't even point to, or identify.

The current 8-billion humans might now be living through this: https://www.iflscience.com/universe...periment-that-turned-into-an-apocalypse-60407

 

[Mr Boochie]

Yup. That's kind of what I meant by "society speeding up." There's no patience, not time! Ever notice how FAST people are talking?

Another thing that's so common now. We went to a kinda fancy restaurant to eat (need a reservation kind of restaurant).

There was this young couple at the next table. It seemed like it was their first date. The whole time, they were looking at their phones. The guy only looked up to order food. The woman was texting away, totally oblivious to anything around her.

Dating today can seem so foreign.

 

[DesertRatt]

totally oblivious to anything around her.

...head down in perfect obedience.

 

[Doghouse]

"Wavy handed" people on TV. Some seem unable to speak without waving their hands about. If you mute the sound, you'd think they were doing sign language.

When I was at a UK grammar school in the late fifties. We used to have double English every week. At some point in the lesson there was always an exercise on "Public Speaking."
A different member of the class had to stand in front of the rest of us and give a two-minute talk on any subject they chose.
You were expected to conduct this with your hands behind your back.
Any hesitations, the inclusion of any "ums" or "ers." and you'd likely find a soft blackboard rubber aimed at your head, thrown by the master sitting at the back of the class. Plus howls of derision from the rest of the class. Through sheer pressure, we all became quite good at it. I found the ability very useful in meetings during my career.
Yet I find there are some people on TV, particularly older men, "who must have gone to the same school."

TV adverts that have disclaimers at the bottom of the screen that are hard to read. So many of them.
What you see on the screen should be exactly what they are selling. Car adverts where it says, "model not available in your country." Phone adverts where it says "sequences shortened."
I could go on....

 

[Apreggiator]

"Wavy handed" people on TV. Some seem unable to speak without waving their hands about. If you mute the sound, you'd think they were doing sign language.

Better not visit Italy.

 

[enricosonic]

Picking up a call-in order at a restaurant and being presented with a tablet with 15%, 20%, 30% gratuity options.

 

[Doghouse]

Another thing that's so common now. We went to a kinda fancy restaurant to eat (need a reservation kind of restaurant).

There was this young couple at the next table. It seemed like it was their first date. The whole time, they were looking at their phones. The guy only looked up to order food. The woman was texting away, totally oblivious to anything around her.

Dating today can seem so foreign.

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That reminds me. This must have been fifteen years ago.
After so many times when my wife and I had been in our favourite restaurant and witnessing, sometimes two couples at the same table all looking at their phones, I wrote to the letters page of the Daily Mail, explaining that although I was familiar with the correct placing of cutlery on a dining table, but I would like to know the exact position on the table that a mobile phone should be placed.

They published it.

A week later they printed it again, as part of a letter from a woman, who suggested she knew the answer. "In the water jug."

 

[MuseChaser]

Advertisements for medications. Again, the full rant would fill pages and days.

 

[Doghouse]

Commercials for cosmetics that supposedly make women's skin look younger.
It obviously works, as the models they use look about sixteen.

 

[Bushikan]

QR Codes. Every time I see one I think I die a little. Just ordered takeout at a restaurant. Hostess (just standing there gabbing with a coworker) wouldn’t take my order. Showed me the QR Code.

 

[Mr Boochie]

Advertisements for medications. Again, the full rant would fill pages and days.

You noticed that no matter what the drug is or what the problem is — it's always "Moderate to Severe?"

From plaque psoriasis, to Crohn's disease, to facial movements from anti-psychotic meds, to depression, to wet AMD, to Alzheimer's disease, to COPD, to...

And so many abbreviations. It's a smorgasbord of letters!

 

[MuseChaser]

You noticed that no matter what the drug is or what the problem is — it's always "Moderate to Severe?"

From plaque psoriasis, to Crohn's disease, to facial movements from anti-psychotic meds, to depression, to wet AMD, to Alzheimer's disease, to COPD, to...

And so many abbreviations. It's a smorgasbord of letters!

What gets me are the incredibly serious possible side effects mentioned quietly and quickly (for legal reasons and not out of any concern for ethics) at the end of ads for drugs meant to combat mostly cosmetic or aesthetic problems. I'll stick with an itchy eczema rash rather than risk spontaneous interior organ detonations, thank you.