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30 People Share Things That Just Aren’t As Fun As They Used To Be

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As the years pass, the way we think about the world changes. Our information processing capacity slows down and we become less open to new experiences.

This is not to say that there are no open-minded seniors, rather, as we age, we turn to data that we have collected to make our opinions and decisions, which can be quite different from what we had thought about the same stuff 20, 10, or even 5 years ago.

And there's a discussion on Reddit that vividly illustrates this. Created by user Istrx13, it asked everyone, "What are you starting to like less and less the older you get?" Below you will find some of the most-upvoted answers.

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#1

30 People Share Things That Just Aren't As Fun As They Used To Be Social media. I hate what it does to people and I hate the things it makes people do. So much. It used to be useful once upon a time but now social media is just a cesspool of the worst kinds of people.

saltedcube , Sara Kurfeß Report

Final score:

291points

#2

30 People Share Things That Just Aren't As Fun As They Used To Be Other people

Ahshalon_Tenisk , Jacek Dylag Report

Final score:

259points

#3

30 People Share Things That Just Aren't As Fun As They Used To Be How quickly things break down. Everything is cheaply made so you will have to replace it quicker. My grandmother had the same oven for 50 years. A fridge that was easily 30 years old.

CatsAreTheBest2 , Erik Mclean Report

Final score:

239points

#4

30 People Share Things That Just Aren't As Fun As They Used To Be I give a s**t less and less about whether people find me attractive or not, because I’m comfortable with myself more than ever.

mochaboo20 , Matthew Hamilton Report

Final score:

222points

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#5

30 People Share Things That Just Aren't As Fun As They Used To Be Crowded areas. Went to the grocery store yesterday, felt uncomfortable with that many people around.

BlazeDarklight , Brittani Burns Report

Final score:

215points

#6

30 People Share Things That Just Aren't As Fun As They Used To Be Getting wasted and partying.

I am in my early 30s and i think im okay to not party anymore for the rest of my life.

Its just that weekends are damn precious now that im working full time. When I get wasted and party, i just waste a whole sunday recovering from that.

Yea so im good.

butthenhor , John Arano Report

Final score:

197points

#7

30 People Share Things That Just Aren't As Fun As They Used To Be Making appointments. For my dog, myself, my kids. Start a new patient portal. Verify your email. Try to make an appointment through their portal. Portal down for maintenance. Call. Sent to electronic voicemail, recommends online portal. Rinse and repeat. Eventually find the right formula to speak to a human, not accepting new patients/no openings for ten weeks.

Frosty_Table7539 , Joseph Frank Report

Final score:

193points

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#8

30 People Share Things That Just Aren't As Fun As They Used To Be Loud restaurants

Panther81277 , K8 Report

Final score:

183points

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#9

Politics. It’s so polarized and feels like a clear psyop to promote us fighting amongst ourselves.

Lovelightshine222 Report

Final score:

180points

#10

30 People Share Things That Just Aren't As Fun As They Used To Be Chasing a career.

We whip ourselves into a fury chasing this thing. Our entire society is built around the assumption that everyone wants one. That it's a way to be happy.

It's not.

It's a waste of a great gift we've been given.

You enrich others. Always. If you're lucky you'll get some cream off the top. But most people won't.

They'll just pump hours of their life into the comfort of other people who had the fortune to be born into the right class of people.

You'll chase it and chase it and feel like you're getting somewhere but at the end of the day, it won't matter. The only things that will matter are the things you couldn't do because you were playing by someone else's rules for a happy life.

F**k. That. S**t.

exec_director_doom , Ben White Report

Final score:

158points

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#11

Holidays. Really turning into a Scrooge lately. Christmas is just the worst. All people care about is receiving/giving present and I just think that s**t is the absolute worst. Let me just spend time with my family, see some nice decorations, and have a good meal

Rimmatimtim22 Report

Final score:

158points

#12

30 People Share Things That Just Aren't As Fun As They Used To Be Someone opening an Instagram/Tiktok video on loud volume out of nowhere. Whether its on the train or in the sofa. Makes me scream inside

Dondorini , Ross Sneddon Report

Final score:

142points

#13

30 People Share Things That Just Aren't As Fun As They Used To Be Having to have a job just to afford the small amount of time I have between having a job

sodacansinthetrash , Magnet.me Report

Final score:

141points

#14

30 People Share Things That Just Aren't As Fun As They Used To Be Since I haven’t seen it yet after scrolling a good while:

Soda and other soft or carbonated drinks. They’re so sugary and awful it’s like I can imagine my teeth dissolving and my insides corroding just from drinking a bit of it. I don’t hate it with a passion and in a social occasion I might even drink some, but I always feel bad afterward and sometimes even sick.

Water is love, water is life.

Emerald_Encrusted , Alexandra Nosova Report

Final score:

139points

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#15

30 People Share Things That Just Aren't As Fun As They Used To Be People all around me. I prefer my solitude!

Kiwi-Latter , Tegan Mierle Report

Final score:

132points

#16

*gestures to everything*

I just want to sit on a front porch in a comfy chair, book in hand, cat(s) on lap, on a mild summer evening. And shoot buckshot at anyone who comes to bother me.

blackday44 Report

Final score:

129points

#17

30 People Share Things That Just Aren't As Fun As They Used To Be Rude people. Especially middle aged and elderly people who think they can get away with being rude just because of their age. I'm in my mid 50's and I hate those a******s as much as I did when I was a young person.

KazukiSendo , Matt Bennett Report

Final score:

126points

#18

30 People Share Things That Just Aren't As Fun As They Used To Be Shopping. As a kid and teenager there was a bunch of stuff I couldn’t have, so when I started earning money I was really enjoying buying something, if I wanted to. Now I just think that constant online shopping and the throw-away-and-repurchase-cycle makes you feel empty on the inside and hurts the environment. I’d rather have kind people and joy in my life than things

SpicyPumpkin96 , Arturo Rey Report

Final score:

120points

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#19

30 People Share Things That Just Aren't As Fun As They Used To Be People running their mouth in the movie theater when you're trying to watch the movie that you just paid $15 to watch.

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Final score:

115points

#20

30 People Share Things That Just Aren't As Fun As They Used To Be Videocalls since they inherently use the speaker phone. Nobody seems to remember when using speaker phone to talk was considered rude/lowclass

TwoThreeSkidoo , Heather McKean Report

Final score:

114points

#21

Loud people.

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Final score:

104points

#22

30 People Share Things That Just Aren't As Fun As They Used To Be Clubbing is a bottom tier experience.

MinkoffMinxx , Amir Toossi Report

Final score:

98points

#23

30 People Share Things That Just Aren't As Fun As They Used To Be Home. I moved far away and made my own life. At the beginning I was desperately attached to my home and missed it to the core of my being. Now I realize that I left problems behind I'll never have to face again. Every visit makes me more confident in my decision. I wish the best for my friends and family, but I'm glad I got the f**k out.

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Final score:

94points

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#24

30 People Share Things That Just Aren't As Fun As They Used To Be Other peoples children.

DuzyLurking , Piron Guillaume Report

Final score:

91points

#25

30 People Share Things That Just Aren't As Fun As They Used To Be Online gaming.

Everyone is just toxic or childish as f**k and it gets old. I try to stay away from them now and just play single player stuff

TedNebula , Samsung Memory Report

Final score:

89points

#26

30 People Share Things That Just Aren't As Fun As They Used To Be The news. 99% is clickbait or propaganda

GoodSmiler , ThisisEngineering RAEng Report

Final score:

75points

#27

30 People Share Things That Just Aren't As Fun As They Used To Be Sweetness. The older I get, the less I can tolerate sweet stuff. Use to need a lot of sugar in my coffee, now a dash of sugar is enough and if need be, no sugar is fine too.

melty111 , Vinicius "amnx" Amano Report

Final score:

74points

#28

Large crowds.

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Final score:

73points

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#29

Young people.

I totally get it now.

PeteyMcPetey Report

Final score:

64points

#30

30 People Share Things That Just Aren't As Fun As They Used To Be Birthdays

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Final score:

49points

Note: this post originally had 59 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.

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What do you think ?

Xandra 1 year ago

Camping, living in a tent for a week or to, on the beach, mountains... Well, I'm still nostalgic about those times, but me and my joints prefer normal beds and facilities now-a-days...

17points

marianne eliza 1 year ago

Yeah, I can chart my age this way. Originally sleeping bag on the ground, no pad, no tent. Move on to adding a pad, then a tent, then an air mattress, then a queen sized air mattress with real sheets and blankets, and a bigger tent.

6points

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GB 1 year ago

Many of these things don't fit the title of the article. "Traffic" for example. When has that ever been "great"?!

12points

Random Dent 1 year ago

The title is misleading, the question asked in the text bit was about things you tolerate less as you get older

3points

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Erosa 1 year ago

Why has nobody said this - NATIONAL AND STATE PARKS AND NATURE IN GENERAL. Ever since Covid, there's way too many people on the trails and everywhere is crowded. No longer can I find a quiet spot to sit and enjoy nature without someone coming along and either making a huge fuss with their friends disturbing the peace or being rude as heck. There's trash everywhere. One of my local parks restricted access to a certain part because the littering got so bad from inconsiderate a-holes seeing the place on social media. It is illegal in the state of Massachusetts to fly drones, mostly because of the military base in Chicopee, you need permission to fly anything that a high tech radar can pick up, preferably a good thing because I don't want to see hundreds of those in the air being unintentionally or intentionally recorded when I'm just trying to find peace in the world... God, people are annoying.

11points

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Xandra 1 year ago

Camping, living in a tent for a week or to, on the beach, mountains... Well, I'm still nostalgic about those times, but me and my joints prefer normal beds and facilities now-a-days...

17points

marianne eliza 1 year ago

Yeah, I can chart my age this way. Originally sleeping bag on the ground, no pad, no tent. Move on to adding a pad, then a tent, then an air mattress, then a queen sized air mattress with real sheets and blankets, and a bigger tent.

6points

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GB 1 year ago

Many of these things don't fit the title of the article. "Traffic" for example. When has that ever been "great"?!

12points

Random Dent 1 year ago

The title is misleading, the question asked in the text bit was about things you tolerate less as you get older

3points

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Erosa 1 year ago

Why has nobody said this - NATIONAL AND STATE PARKS AND NATURE IN GENERAL. Ever since Covid, there's way too many people on the trails and everywhere is crowded. No longer can I find a quiet spot to sit and enjoy nature without someone coming along and either making a huge fuss with their friends disturbing the peace or being rude as heck. There's trash everywhere. One of my local parks restricted access to a certain part because the littering got so bad from inconsiderate a-holes seeing the place on social media. It is illegal in the state of Massachusetts to fly drones, mostly because of the military base in Chicopee, you need permission to fly anything that a high tech radar can pick up, preferably a good thing because I don't want to see hundreds of those in the air being unintentionally or intentionally recorded when I'm just trying to find peace in the world... God, people are annoying.

11points

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