36 People Online Predict What Will Seem “Not Normal” In A Decade’s Time

Humans are interesting creatures. Looking from the outside, it might seem that we accept many weird things as absolutely normal. In fact, we don’t even have to look from the outside, just look at our past and see what kind of today’s oddities we consider to be normal.

In this list, you’ll find plenty of today’s normal things that people think will lose their normality in 10+ years.

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36 People Online Predict What Will Seem "Not Normal" In A Decade's Time "Influencers" Which is a stupid name for them what do they influence? and are they a Good/Bad influence? (I've seen mostly bad)

Scumbag787 , Gian Cescon Report

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128points

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Blma1025 1 year ago

If this were to happen, the world would be a much better place.

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36 People Online Predict What Will Seem "Not Normal" In A Decade's Time Hopefully family vlog-style social media content. I think we’ll have a wave of kids who grew up being featured on popular family YouTube channels (or TikTok, or any other platform) reach adulthood and speak out about how unhealthy it was. We already have some who were filmed on family reality shows that aired on TV channels like TLC, but the proliferation of these on social media is so much more widespread.

ColdFIREBaker , MART PRODUCTION Report

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118points

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago

I hope OP is right. No child needs to be brought up as entertainment.

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36 People Online Predict What Will Seem "Not Normal" In A Decade's Time The 5-day work week. 4 days is better and just as productive.

corvus7corax , Alex Kotliarskyi Report

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112points

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Luke Branwen 1 year ago

Also universal basic income. Our society won't be able to move forward without that.

58points

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36 People Online Predict What Will Seem "Not Normal" In A Decade's Time Daylight savings time

skatchawan , Beazy Report

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104points

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LooseSeal's $10 Banana 1 year ago

Yes. We need to stay on standard time.

30points

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36 People Online Predict What Will Seem "Not Normal" In A Decade's Time Hopefully we'll have a biodegradable replacement for all of the single-use plastics that we're creating.

Microplastics have now found their way into virtually every ecosystem on Earth.

UpChuckles , Jas Min Report

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100points

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Ginny 1 year ago

Glass and paper, both recyclable

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36 People Online Predict What Will Seem "Not Normal" In A Decade's Time Owning things outright without having to pay a subscription.

Justsomedudeonthenet , charlesdeluvio Report

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87points

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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago

You know, that was how it USED to be - when you bought a physical DVD or VHS tape, you owned it outright. Interesting (and heartening) to see that people want to go back to “ownership” instead of “subscription” - even if the products are all digital now.

50points

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36 People Online Predict What Will Seem "Not Normal" In A Decade's Time Plastic drinking bottles (non-reusable)

aasbsinthe , Brian Yurasits Report

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75points

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RamiRudolph 1 year ago

Keep dreaming, they're not gonna go away anytime soon.

8points

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36 People Online Predict What Will Seem "Not Normal" In A Decade's Time Politicians being a minimum age of 500, hopefully.

breakdance39 , History in HD Report

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58points

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Craftsman 64 1 year ago

Term limits and maximum age for all 3 US branches of government including the Supreme Court.

55points

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36 People Online Predict What Will Seem "Not Normal" In A Decade's Time Unregulated phone use for minors. It’s already starting to change.

hebrewschoolcarpool , NordWood Themes Report

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56points

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Craftsman 64 1 year ago

Call me old fashioned but that's not something that needs to be regulated - it's part of a parent's job, not the government's. Personal responsibility.

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36 People Online Predict What Will Seem "Not Normal" In A Decade's Time If social media history is any indication, TikTok won’t be the most popular app among teens in 10 years.

mountainstosea , Nik Report

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52points

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RamiRudolph 1 year ago

We can only hope that it vanishes soon.

27points

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36 People Online Predict What Will Seem "Not Normal" In A Decade's Time Privacy

BrolandoDoom , Milan Malkomes Report

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51points

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Nice Beast Ludo 1 year ago

Will be nonexistent

28points

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#12

36 People Online Predict What Will Seem "Not Normal" In A Decade's Time Hopefully private health insurance

Atasteofazia , National Cancer Institute Report

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47points

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Lauren S 1 year ago

Us Americans can dream, I mean it’s not like there are dozens of examples of how to make universal healthcare work across the world! /s

25points

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36 People Online Predict What Will Seem "Not Normal" In A Decade's Time Drawing on giant eyebrows.

zimrose , Garin Chadwick Report

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43points

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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago

Look, if it makes people happy, who am I to judge? Yes I think they look a bit stupid but it doesn’t affect you.

51points

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#14

36 People Online Predict What Will Seem "Not Normal" In A Decade's Time The way we treat addiction. The disease model will go out of style (thank god) and we will treat it as a behavioral disorder (because that’s what it is). And we will be able to mitigate this behavior BEFORE it gets so out of hand and treatment centers will stop outsourcing their actual f*****g treatment to twelve step programs!! The future is bright in this area.

PlausiblyAlien , Naim Benjelloun Report

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36points

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Nice Beast Ludo 1 year ago

12 step programs feel like a cult to me. It does NOT help to list every f*****g wrong you ever made, go flipping rocks with 10 year old dumpster fires underneath by apologizing for them and sharing all of it with someone else. Not one bit of it does anything but bring all your trauma to the forefront and reignite it instead of moving on into the future

16points

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#15

36 People Online Predict What Will Seem "Not Normal" In A Decade's Time At some point, maybe 20 years away, cash will become an oddity and we will all just spend money electronically.

Altruistic_Shame_487 , Nathan Dumlao Report

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34points

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MarieL 1 year ago

Digital currency removes all privacy from purchases. The government doesn't need to know what I buy, where I buy it, or how frequently I buy something. Not to mention that the gov't will have complete control over you finances > they can turn off your credit cards, close your bank accounts, and leave you with nothing INSTANTLY. I'll hold onto MY cash, thank you very much.

55points

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#16

Interacting with a human being for basic customer service needs.

b_man646260 Report

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33points

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Catharina Geerts 1 year ago

That's getting more and more difficult to achieve :'(

1point

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#17

36 People Online Predict What Will Seem "Not Normal" In A Decade's Time Being able to be offline or uncontactable

Country_Squire_ , Sten Ritterfeld Report

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32points

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Ace 1 year ago

Sorry, is this saying that it's normal now but won't be in ten years, as per thread title, or they think it's impossible now but will become normal later? Neither way does it sound right.

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36 People Online Predict What Will Seem "Not Normal" In A Decade's Time having a facebook

lawlpony , Brett Jordan Report

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31points

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Id row 1 year ago

The only people left on there now are grandmas, conspiracy theorists and mommy groups.

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#19

Letting children have unfettered access to all information all the time and specifically giving them tacit permission and encouragement to use social media

IllustriousLeader124 Report

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30points

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Zoey Rayne 1 year ago

And to watch whatever junk they want on youtube. Even out of the less problematic videos on youtube kids, half of them are still just extended toy commercials.

5points

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#20

36 People Online Predict What Will Seem "Not Normal" In A Decade's Time Paying for all our electricity from a power company. The future is and always has been on-site generation for EVERYTHING. Most cities are putting "solar-readiness" clauses in their building codes so new homes are being built ready to fit it on already and get great efficiency.

And I live in Houston, the oil/energy capital of the country. Happened 7 years ago. Solar has always been the future. Just a matter of people learning about it without a pitch.

Edit: to clarify, for the places that undeniably get more than enough sun to provide solar for homes it's the future. It just makes sense. Places that don't have sun are an example of what oil/gas electricity is good for. On-demand/emergency electricity generation when better means won't work. Oil and gas isn't the best solution but it is pretty damn good in places where it's cold and cloudy

TheRealRickSorkin , Vivint Solar Report

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29points

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The Doom Song 1 year ago

Solar power in Western Australia is great! We "sell" back to the grid and coz it's always sunny here we "sell" a lot.

13points

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#21

36 People Online Predict What Will Seem "Not Normal" In A Decade's Time Golf courses in the American Southwest.

mkowieski , Steven Shircliff Report

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24points

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Sand Ers 1 year ago

Never mind golf courses. Water hog agriculture in the Southwest is the actual problem. Meaningful regulation of groundwater usage, with functional enforcement teeth would cure most of the issues.

14points

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36 People Online Predict What Will Seem "Not Normal" In A Decade's Time Having screens everywhere.

I know I know. Seems like we are going the opposite way.

But I could see a world where we have so much tech integrated into phones and so much screen time that it becomes unclassy to have TVs in every room of the house or a computer sitting out.

Centering your entire living room around a TV will be considered kinda trashy. Screens will be looked at as something to simplify or reduce.

Tourist_Careless , James Ting Report

Final score:

23points

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SweetCheesySpaghetti 1 year ago

You can kind of already see this, with projectors and retractable screens becoming more popular, and those TVs that look like art when not turned on. I can definitely see TVs becoming more hidden, and used less.

8points

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#23

36 People Online Predict What Will Seem "Not Normal" In A Decade's Time I’m probably being too hopeful here but I hope it’s shopping on Amazon.

They’re horrible now and with all the better options (even eBay is better), they don’t deserve their success anymore. They mostly sell fake Chinese c**p now, have unreliable delivery times, bad packaging, worse customer service than before, etc. Don’t even get me started on getting returned, open items as ‘new’ and having to wait 2 weeks for the refund.

Charming-Ad3485 , Marques Thomas Report

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20points

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RamiRudolph 1 year ago

Speak for yourself. For me as a customer, Amazon is the best and most reliable online shop right now.

29points

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#24

36 People Online Predict What Will Seem "Not Normal" In A Decade's Time Life without pandemics: the 21st century will have more, some likely worse than COVID.

There's a number of reasons for this. Zoonotic spillover, e.g. from pathogens originating in Amazonian bats. More broadly because travel, urbanization, climate change, increased contact with animals, and healthcare worker shortages are a powderkeg for crises like this.

This and other societal pressures — e.g. the need for compression of morbidity as rising numbers of retirees become an untenable burden on younger workers — will lead to a jobs shift toward medical science and care, just as some jobs are being replaced by AI and various forms of automation.

In coming decades we may not cure, but will do a much better job treating, many types of cancer as well as Alzheimers, diabetes, etc. Cases where these are debilitating or fatal will be unusual.

tigwd , Manuel Report

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19points

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WindySwede 1 year ago

That's why animals needs better treatment, and all sorts of things here. Eat less meat, I eat meat but you can always lower the amount. I'm greatfull for new technology, minimising the side effects is always important. But antivaxers or those oppose governments/leadership can't see any good with medical breakthroughs? Hopefully many cures from m-RNA vaccines can be produced!

13points

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#25

Kids being Tate fans

poopnosekong125 Report

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17points

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WindySwede 1 year ago

Hopefully not normal today either?

7points

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#26

36 People Online Predict What Will Seem "Not Normal" In A Decade's Time Stable weather conditions that aren't dominated by extreme weather events

PetProjects , Osman Rana Report

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16points

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Never Snarky 1 year ago

Don't count on this. It's only going to get worse.

9points

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#27

36 People Online Predict What Will Seem "Not Normal" In A Decade's Time I hope Reels (please God)

azalea_stemozy , cottonbro studio Report

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14points

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Ace 1 year ago

???

8points

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#28

36 People Online Predict What Will Seem "Not Normal" In A Decade's Time Excessive phone screentime, I hope.

ExcitedFig4657 , Annie Spratt Report

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13points

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WindySwede 1 year ago

the only thing that phones will go away, and replaced by inplant, VR, AR, or alike?

5points

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#29

36 People Online Predict What Will Seem "Not Normal" In A Decade's Time Hating on boomers.

But only because they'll mostly be dead by then.

PoopNoodleCasserole , Andrea Piacquadio Report

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12points

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elissa 1 year ago

Hopefully the generations will understand they can learn from each other. Older generations need to understand they are the ones who raised the younger ones - and younger generations will appreciate the knowledge of the older ones. The olders need to appreciate change - and encourage it because every generation has faults. The youngers need to understand the olders did what they could in their circumstances at the time. I'm gen x (1970) and I am so proud of the things gen z is trying to change. I can also appreciate the boomers did what they thought was right for the most part. And us gen Xers seem to always be stuck in the middle.

8points

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36 People Online Predict What Will Seem "Not Normal" In A Decade's Time Spending $15 on lunch for 1

SoUpInYa , Georgia Visacri Report

Final score:

12points

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The Doom Song 1 year ago

This is why I bring lunch to work. He'll of a lot cheaper

6points

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#31

36 People Online Predict What Will Seem "Not Normal" In A Decade's Time Largely unrestricted travel through the developed world. I visited Europe this summer as an American and travelled effortlessly through six countries. The only even slight delays were England to EU and back. The rest didn’t even look at my passport, it was like traveling states in America.

Between increasing global migration, political splintering and tension, potential US drawback in world order-keeping role, likely increased terror incidents to come, economic turmoil, and yet unseen effects of climate change, I think we will see borders become harder to cross than today.

Woodit , Eva Darron Report

Final score:

12points

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MayaGeGe 1 year ago

Yes, definitely. It has already started.

4points

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36 People Online Predict What Will Seem "Not Normal" In A Decade's Time Owning a house.

One absolute nightmare scenario for the future would be a company like Blackrock finagling the government into giving them the power of eminent domain seizure, then seizing whole neighborhoods and then renting them back to the former owners at a 500% markup.

CaptainPrower , Aubrey Odom Report

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10points

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Donkeywheel 1 year ago

Sweetie, that’s the US. Anywhere else there is no big corporations that own most of houses.

11points

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#33

Cable tv boxes

No-Pilot5559 Report

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9points

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Jake B 1 year ago

These still exist? I did not know that.

3points

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#34

36 People Online Predict What Will Seem "Not Normal" In A Decade's Time Separate bathrooms for men and women

I-dontknow_why15 , Juan Marin Report

Final score:

-4points

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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago (edited)

Absolutely not, if OP means public communal bathrooms. Those who identify as female should NOT be forced into sharing bathroom spaces with those who identify as male. Children of either (or neither/no) gender should not be forced to share bathroom space with adults not of their gender (unless the child cannot use the restroom by themselves.) Non-binary and gender-neutral people should have a place where they feel comfortable. Private unisex/non-gendered bathrooms are a solution; unisex COMMUNAL bathrooms are not.

33points

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#35

Heavily praising people born in the early 2020s for successfully using a toilet.

Anand999 Report

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-4points

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Mark 1 year ago

I mean… it’s not wrong, but in 10 years we’ll be heavily praising people born in the early 2030s for successfully using a toilet.

18points

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#36

probably being able to have an opinion

lycos94 Report

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-4points

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Trillian 1 year ago

Everyone can have an opinion. But people who complain about things like this usually mean that everyone has to agree with them. That is not going to happen.

17points

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What do you think ?

donnie supremacy (she/her) 1 year ago

ugh half of these were just "internet bad, delete every social media ever."

PixxelDust 1 year ago

Yup. I agree that the current social media standards are unhealthy, but many of these people fail to realise that social media is a crucial platform for artists and small businesses. I feel like social media should be a place to share and create, not gatekeep, be political, and create false standards about beauty and society, but that doesn't mean everyone should just delete everything and never use the internet. I mean, it's here for a reason. Why should everyone have to keep to their own little corner?

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