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Things are changing so quickly that it’s hard to keep up! As the world becomes more and more interconnected, we become aware of all the ways that the rest of the world lives. Trends that might have been fated to stay local a few decades ago now go viral and spread around the globe, powered by social media and the news.

However, much of what we take for granted these days might not stand the test of time. The future might be radically different, and people living years from now might look back at 2022 with a lot of confusion (and probably judgment) about how we did things.

Internet users shared their thoughts about what trends will be the most regrettable in 20 years’ time in an interesting r/AskReddit thread, and we’re bringing you their best insights to get your noggins jogging. From gender reveal parties to denying climate change, some trends are pretty darn bad. As you’re reading, have a think about what fads and ideas you think will go the way of the dodo (i.e. extinct) in the near future, Pandas, and share your thoughts in the comments.

Pop culture and lifestyle expert Mike Sington, from LA, was kind enough to share his thoughts on current trends, what's here to stay, what will (hopefully!) go away, and how the people of the future might react to the fads of 2022. Check out Bored Panda's full interview with him.

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back Taking away women’s body autonomy. We will all pay for this.

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Bored Panda asked pop culture expert Mike which current trends, in his opinion, probably won't stand the test of time. "Sharing personal photos of yourself, your life, your family, and especially your children will probably seem very peculiar in a couple of decades," he told us.

"People just now are becoming increasingly concerned about privacy on the internet, and it will be odd in the future to look back and see how much of ourselves we used to willingly share," Mike mused that, in the future, privacy will likely be a much greater concern than now.
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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back Hopefully school shootings.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, yes, yes. This should be #1 of things that must stop.

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back Electing people to public office who have zero qualifications because they’re famous for some bullshit.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It also doesn't appear to be just about celebrity status. It's how much money you have and can afford to throw at a campaign. So the "average Joe" who actually might make a bloody good leader is unlikely to ever be in the runnings.

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In the pop culture expert's opinion, no matter how much time passes, humor is "here to stay."

"Funny thoughts, anecdotes, and memes are popular now, and will have staying power on the internet. People often go online for escapism, and humor has always provided that. I don’t foresee that changing," he said that humor itself is timeless. People will always want (and need!) to have a good laugh.

Meanwhile, we were curious to figure out how to tell if something's a long-term trend or just a passing fad that'll go away in just a few years or even months.

"If something becomes popular quickly and seems to come out of nowhere, it’s more likely to be a passing fad," Mike, Hollywood's Ultimate Insider, shared his thoughts with Bored Panda.
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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back Gender reveal parties and promposals

Good lord it seems they get more ridiculous every week. This s**t needs to go.

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back I hope: mommy bloggers who post constant pics and details of their children. Robbing children of privacy for likes and money is sickening.

Don’t even get me started on ones with sick kids…

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back Cruel pranks on strangers for views

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It absolutely infuriates me to see these, "its a prank bro". No it isn't, it's harassment.

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"Long-term trends with staying power seem to build more slowly, but at a steady pace. Be careful of jumping on the 'bandwagon' yourself, just because something is popular in the moment. That’s the scenario that’s most likely to haunt you in the future," he shared.

"Oh, and gender reveal parties? Get rid of them. Let me break it to you- no one cares what the sex of your child is, except you," Mike said, and we wholeheartedly agree.

Predicting the future is never easy. It can be done, but it’s never going to be close to 100% accurate. Well, not until we develop genuine AIs that can take into account trillions of different factors and how they play off each other and connect into a dynamic, ever-shifting whole, but that probably won’t happen for quite some time yet. (But if it already has, Skynet, we love you, please don’t punish us for liking social media so much!)
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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back Mommy needs a drink and mommy wine culture — I hate this BS of normalizing alcoholism and these 'Poor me, my suburbia life is so rough, I can’t make it without wine o’clock.' Huge eye roll.

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back Climate change denial.

Global warming is one of those problems that we won't truly recognise until the damage has already been done. We are reaching that point.

In twenty years there will no longer be a façade.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would argue that we have already reached that point as significant portions of humanity are just stupid to realise what is happening and what needs to be done. We needed action 30 years ago. My son is 14 and what world is he going to experience, his kids, their kids? It deeply saddens me.

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back Social Media.


It has negatively affected mental health, caused irreparable damage to grammar and the English language as a whole, produced multiple generations of narcissists.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Social media has its place. I use it to keep in touch with friends and family who are all now 5000 miles away since I moved to Spain. I also use it to keep track of goings on and available services in my area here where I moved. What I DON'T use it for is a daily ego boost or "influencer" platform. It's all in how you view social media. For me it's a tool.

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Aaron Genest, from Siemens Software, explained to Bored Panda that we can get a good idea of what the future might hold, what technologies will be around, by looking ‘upstream’ in the investment space.

"For instance, it takes almost two years to develop and produce a computer chip and get it to market for a phone, and five years to get something into a new kind of car. So if we want to have a sense for what, for instance, the gadgets in our cars will look like in 2026, we just need to look at what the car manufacturers are asking their suppliers to design today,” he explained to Bored Panda earlier.

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back Eyelashes so fake they look like spiders.

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back Single use plastics

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But.... straws 😢 I know some people won't be happy with this. I don't like excessive use of plastic either and try to avoid it. But paper straws are just gross, there's no other way for me to describe it. I need a better alternative :/

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back Filming everything you do. I was born in the late 1980s and this is just so weird to me since I grew up in an era of film cameras where every shot counted. It's so bizarre seeing some of my coworkers in their twenties film an average workday at the office like it's some sort of tourist attraction. Why would you do this?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Agree no one gives a hoot. Like Jim Gaffigan said, 'I have more pics of my kids than my dad ever looked at me.'

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Meanwhile, Ramona Pringle, from the Creative Innovation Studio at Ryerson University revealed to Bored Panda some time ago that while we don’t know for sure what the future will hold, we can count on some trends to keep going strong: “We love stories, and we love to be part of something bigger than ourselves. Be it oral storytelling, books, blogs, movies, or video games, we’ve never lost our love of narrative.”

According to the expert, people will always look for ways to be together, to be connected to one another. We long for communal experiences, whether in concert halls, being entertained in giant arenas, or remotely.

“Immersion and interactivity have long been goals for creators and media makers when it comes to how technology can influence entertainment,” Ramona told us.
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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back Subscription-based everything. You can't own SHIT these days. Everything is a matter of 'You can have access to this thing, but only so long as you give us some money per month.'

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"And we have the ability to add or remove it from the collection at our leisure, so hopefully you want it when we do."

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back The amount of people that drive full size trucks around is ridiculous. At least 90% of them could live just fine with a little 4 door hatchback. It's sad to think about all of the millions of gallons of fuel that has been wasted by those idiots.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They want everyone to know that they have a small PP.

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back Not sure why but I reckon vaping will prove to be a major health problem in a couple decades.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is allready prooving to be a mayor health problem. More and more of the ingredients are being banned because they are screwing up your lungs.

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“For the last decade, we’ve leaned into virtual reality because of how it enables both of these. We can step inside a world and have influence over it, and the story or experience that unfolds. I think one of the things we can expect moving forward is, in a sense, the opposite of virtual reality. Instead, more of an enhanced reality or fictional reality, wherein the entertainment isn’t in a headset, but instead, all around us.”

She stressed that a decade ago, people didn’t talk to robots and now many of us do. “Siri and Alexa are some of the more common bots, but we already interface with non-human characters regularly. As technology advances, including augmented reality and mixed reality, I think we can expect that entertainment will be something we can engage with off of the screen, but out in the world, with characters and stories we can engage with throughout the day, or throughout our houses.” So while some fundamental things that people care about will remain the same, the way that we interact with the world—and each other!—can change incredibly rapidly.

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back Political polarization in America. I see either civil war or an authoritarian government taking over in the next 20 years.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hate how there are blue vs red states. A friend of mine had to move because her parents wanted to live in a red state. It was a rude awakening. We really aren't United after all.

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back Too much plastic surgery, fillers and Botox on young people.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And on people who are already lovely (does smh mean shaking my head, if so, smh)

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back Not taking COVID seriously. I think the number of long-term health issues that will result from COVID is going to be huge.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I caught COVID a month or so ago. Even though I am testing negative, I still have a permanent splitting headache and cough. I have been told it could take about 6 weeks before these symptoms go away. Yes I am vaccinated and boosted

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back Minimalist everything. Every house, closet, and restaurant looks the same now. In 20 years, it’s all going to change because we’ll all be bored.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have so many stupid little trinkets around my house. Sometimes my inner minimalist wants to trash them to make cleaning easier, but then the room looks so naked.

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back Facebook has explicitly encouraged its users to break down privacy barriers between different aspects of their life, e.g. work, school, and family. This is not a theoretical effect but an intentional one; Zuck has explicitly said that in his view, people who maintain boundaries between different parts of their life "lack integrity" and that it's Facebook's goal to promote "integrity" in this specific sense.

This is deeply dysfunctional.

It's *normal* to have different social contexts in which you present yourself differently. That's how humans have always been, ever since we invented huts and can go inside a hut and be private with someone.

Boundaries between different parts of your life are healthy. You get to decide who's allowed in your hut. Tearing down someone else's boundaries is a hostile act, not a friendly one. (LGBT+ people know this regarding "outing" someone without their consent.)

It should be up to *you* to decide when you feel safe to bring down certain boundaries, e.g. to come out to your family as gay, to tell your coworker about your religious beliefs, or the like.

Facebook is an institution that sees its purpose as including tearing down people's boundaries. That's a problem.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It was so nice back in the days when your friends and family couldn't follow you to work and visa versa

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back The scaremongering about trans people

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ugh, yes. Can't we just let others be? If they're happy and they're not hurting anyone, why do people have to take offense?

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back Veneers. People are LITERALLY sawing down their teeth for pictures and likes.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

…or maybe to help their own self esteem or confidence? Not everyone is social media obsessed. My husband has two because he was really uncomfortable with issues he’s had since youth. And yet, he he doesn’t have an account on a single social media site, go figure. 🙄

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back Letting companies freely track our online behaviors

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

(edit: moved this from a reply to a comment) @Anna Banana, my wife works in IT security and I work at a place that studies this stuff. It is a bigger deal than you are articulating. It is telling when the professionals who work in network security keep as much of their life offline as possible. 15 years ago, when a company contact balked at including his work email in a registration because of what he knew from his time in the NSA, I thought he was just overreacting. Now, I understand.

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back posting about almost every aspect of your life on social media. I posted some pretty cringe s**t as a kid that is still floating around somewhere, and that was before social media became big. I can't imagine what it's going to be like now

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was a kid, I’m 60 now, I yearned for a life where I could be someone else. Now, with the internet, I can see how dangerous that would have been. I feel so sorry for people who’s persona is created entirely by what they can cultivate, manipulate, and then present to the world as who they are.

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back $1200 sneakers

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh, don't worry, in 20 years time we are looking at $120,000 sneakers.

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back A lot of parenting and schooling trends will change. Just look at now vs 20 years ago.

Gentle parenting is big right now. The idea is fine but it leads to permissive parenting in most of the cases I worked with in daycare and as a nanny.

Not telling children “no” like ever. Not letting them fail. It’s going to lead to a lot of anxiety and stress in future children when things don’t go great.

Although it’s been getting better I still think the amount of homework some kids get is ridiculous. Specially younger children. I nanny a 4 year old. She’s still in pull ups and learning how to wipe. She doesn’t need homework from preschool.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I believe that homework is just a failure of the educational system. Kids already spend 40h in school. They should have minimal homework or none. Imagine if most adult people needed to work 40h plus every evening and part of the weekends for free. Unpaid overtime is a problem in adults but nobody realises that thats what the schools are forcing on children as well

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back The destruction of public education (squeezing and outright sabotage of public schools, prohibitive costs for secondary education). The normalization of being undereducated either through apathy or because of forces outside your control. The idea that opinion is equal to fact and that sticking to your original viewpoint is heroic. "Yeah, your studies may say that, but this is how I FEEL about it" and similar arguments.

The reason we are no longer a minor species of omnivorous hunter-gatherers is our ability to pass along knowledge to others. Each generation building on the achievements of prior generations is the path to progress in health, quality of life, equality, production and so much more.

Worse yet, technology now is at a level where if the masses are uneducated, they are also powerless. Small groups of people with specific knowledge have become outrageously powerful and this gap in individual power will only get worse with advances in fields like AI and robotics. If we allow whole generations to grow up undereducated, it will be very difficult for them to understand and affect their world. I feel the exponential growth of wealth gaps across the world is a symptom of this deliberate enforced ignorance.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To be fair for most of our history most humans have been extremely uneducated. But yeah its not something good

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back I think people are just starting to regret naming their kids Danerys and Sansa.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you really have to name your kid after a fictional character....make sure that character's arc is already over so you don't have any surprises.

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back In the future, all of the trans hate laws that are passing right now are going to be viewed the way people of today view Jim Crow laws.

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back Letting people under the age of 18 use social media.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's never going to change nor is it going to be a "regrettable" trend because it's been a thing for as long as social media has been around. 20 years ago we were chatting on message boards, 15 years ago we were all on facebook, 10 years ago everyone was on twitter...all that's going to change is who dominates what platform.

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back Nearly all NFTs. Cash grab riding the hype of the 'underlying technology.'

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Luckily this ship is already sinking and the regrets have begun to flow.

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back Cryptocurrency will be known as a 21st century gold rush

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back Vaping at a young age. Studies are already coming out on the dangers of vaping in the short term. I can't imagine what will be shown with long term studies.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just smoking anything at a young age. With all the warnings and education about the dangers to themselves and others they are inflicting their smoke on, you would think the youth today would be smarter than that now.

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back House/furniture/thrift items being flipped for a profit.

1. The amount of failed flips I see online is ridiculous. Cut corners, trendy designs, and sub par work done by people who sometimes have no previous background. In 20 years flipped houses will be the new "why did they cover the wood floor in vynil, and why did they carpet the bathroom," just on a much bigger scale.

2. Furniture and clothes from thrift stores or places like FB Marketplace are becoming ridiculously overpriced. Everyone assumes that you're a reseller and you wanna take their $30 coffee table and slap some black paint on it and try to resell it for $300. Walking into a thrift store and trying to find some affordable cute clothes? Nice try, we know you're just gonna sell it online so what used to be a $3 shirt is now $15!

Its ridiculous. It's not sustainable when used or flipped items cost almost as much as new ones.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

However I you can upgrade a worthless product and put it back on the marked in a state where it is actually useful for someone, I think it is a great idea. That is a much better solution, than constantly producing more and more stuff. So if you put in the effort of sanding down and painting an old item, why shouldn't you be allowed to sell it at a profit? You put in work, and I think that is worth paying for.

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back The men's broccoli top haircut. I've heard it referred to as the "f**k boy" cut.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've heard of the f-boy haircut, but not "broccoli top". I definitely prefer the latter!

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back Insistence on using iPads/Chomebooks/etc. for everyday lessons in K-12 education.

Although we are saving paper, sure, and giving one more convenient way for submission of assignments, it has skyrocketed kids’ level of screen time, and often students find ways to be off task or download programs to occupy their time. Use of printed materials and referencing books is now being skipped as students believe everything can be found online (it can’t, and is not scrutinized for accuracy like printed materials). Furthermore, even amongst my “high achieving” students, information retention has dropped dramatically, as students are no longer getting the kinesthetic memory practice of copying notes or answering questions on paper as they used to.

Yeah Covid ruins everything, and yes kids need to be adept with technology, but there is definitely a brain drain I think is dramatically linked to the heightened reliance on personal devices.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm fairly certain a similar argument would have been made when every student got their own textbook instead of just listening to the lecture and copying down everything important. That having their own copy of the textbook would make it more likely that a student would slack off in class because they can simply review the information on their own time. Education trends are always going to change and someone is always going to be upset about it.

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back That weird licking your lips while recording yourself in selfie mode

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back Barn doors, shiplap, gray wood floors, the entire modern farmhouse aesthetic

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ok I feel like this is a little bit judgy. Some people like these things, and some of this stuff looks nice when used appropriately.

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giant infotainment screens in cars. when they all look dated in a few years the resale value is going to f*****g suck for those cars.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why? Does the AM/FM radio in 1965 Mustang GT negativelly affect its resale value?

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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don't Hold Back Electric cars. Horribly bad for the environment, polluting, and non recyclable. Mining overseas for lithium destroys the earth. Still need coal plants to charge them up. Huge regrets for some.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a lie. It's proven that after a small ammount of time (1-2y) electrict cars are better for the environment than gas cars. The people who claim otherwise fail to count on the whole process of producing gas cars, of mining petrol, refining it and transporting it.

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