45 Things That Used To Be Obvious 15 Years Ago, But Confuse People Now

I keep seeing posts about the youngest gen feeling that puncuation is "aggressive". wth??

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What is with the abbreviations? Why do I have look up what you're trying to say because you're too lazy to type it? I guess typewriting class went away with knowing cursive too.

Has anyone else noticed this in news articles? So many of them are so poorly written and it seems to becoming more common. Basic facts are left out of nonsensical statements to the point it sometimes has me questioning my reading comprehension

My basic rule is that if I have to guess where the punctuation and capitalization belong, it's not important enough for me to waste time reading it.

I've noticed that over time TV personalities, newspapers, etc have taken "shortcuts" in speaking, writing and it has become acceptable. It makes me cringe everytime I hear someone speaking like a backwoods illiterate. Our slip shod school system is mostly to blame for a good portion of this. Sad.

Basic manners seem to have become a thing of the past....

As someone who’s social growth was stunted, I feel this 😭 I’ve improved my spatial awareness, still working on the social stuff :/

Erh.... This happened before the pandemic... You can't blame the pandemic on everything and you can't blame bad behaviour on one generation solely

nah, blocking any walking path is rubbish behavior.

Simple manners like being aware that other people exist, are not NPCs, and may want to get past you, not listen to your conversation/music, not partake of your secondhand vape, etc. is not a concept that was foreign even 10-15 years ago. Also, wanting people to have the bare minimum of respect for others in a shared space has nothing to do with racism or bigotry.

I'm developing a habit where if I am not expecting a call my phone is on mute and probably in another room.

The first conscious decision I did was to use flight mode. Off the clock at work: Flight mode iPhone. Working on my music production, play guitar, be enganged in something: Flight mode. I am not going to be interrupted all the time for whatever reasons. The important calls go to my landline. And very few people have that number.

Some woman in my neibourhood found it funny to record my meltdown when i found out my dad died. She posteted the video everywhere. Obvously not with the info i just got. It was horrible.

I wonder if the OP is one of those folks who has a public meltdown because they got barbecue sauce instead of honey for their McNuggets? Or perhaps feels entitled to skip a line at the coffee shop because they are running late. People who are caught screaming racist/exist etc epithets deserve to be exposed for what they are. Those who feel like they're above the people who are just trying to make a living in a retail or customer facing role and feel like it's OK to abuse them. To a person they claim that they were "having a bad day" when their antics are put on display. Don't act a fool in public.

Well if you notice we only tend to remember the most egregious ones.

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Don't, give me that one bad day b******t. Most people don't act like this their entire lives. People who have these public blow up should be shamed for it, because it's not acceptable behavior.

And just last week my best friend had to ask me what her boyfriends phone number is lmao

Rotary phones! I saw a video of 2 teenage boys trying to dial a rotary phone. It made me laugh because they couldn't do it.

Just having to remember things, period. A lot of people just don’t have to do it these days so they don’t because, “I can just look it up.” Not having to internalize, synthesize, and recall information is not necessarily a good thing.

I recently cancelled my late mother's landline number. I grew up in that house and have known the number for 55 years.

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I can remember my grandmother’s phone number from 1955. But I’m still not sure about my own cell number. Or anyone else’s cell number. Makes me feel stupid. Lol

I used to visit client sites for work. I would plan my route on a paper map and write down the major turns and tuck the paper behind the sun visor so I could pop it down to see the next turn when I needed it. They weren't all in the UK either. I have memories of picking up a hire car in Sweden at about 10pm in the middle of winter and heading out into the dark, following road signs for Oslo and hoping that I found the right motorway junction for a little village before I landed up in Norway! I also found out why the car had studded tyres on the third day!

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Paper maps are the comfort food of navigation. I miss them.

I admit, used to have the road atlases in my car... but you don't even need a paper map anymore ...if you know how to READ one you can use the map on your navigation system...zoom out and figure out where you are ...it is ultimately a map

How about simply reading road signs and house numbers? GPS is wrong half the time, and my house number has 3 digits! How come doordash keeps delivering to a house with 4 digits, and not even on my road! Read the little green signs people.

I'm extremely well-versed H reading maps and I have a good sense of direction, but I have zero nostalgia for paper maps. Not being able to see the names of small streets, trying to figure out the scale to see if what looks like two blocks is 200m or 2km? Driving for three hours extra because you took a route that looked more direct but was entirely small backroads that looked bigger on the map? I do not miss that.