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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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.
The multiplied mob effect is terrifying, happy I wen through high school without that
Other people
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.
Don't measure the power consumption of a 30 year old fridge, though.
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.
Crowded areas. Went to the grocery store yesterday, felt uncomfortable with that many people around.
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.
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.
Politics. It’s so polarized and feels like a clear psyop to promote us fighting amongst ourselves.
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.
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
As a retail worker, this. It has killed any holiday spirit I had left.
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
Apparently headphones are as out of fashion as are basic good manners.
Having to have a job just to afford the small amount of time I have between having a job
This. The whole concept of work-life-balance gets preached over and over again, but how about finding ways so we could work less, yet still have enough money to live decently? More spare time equals happier people - I will die on that hill.
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.
My problem is, I can only drink water when it's absolutely ice cold. Drinking tepid water is awful to me. Tepid soda isn't great either, but still better.
People all around me. I prefer my solitude!
*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.
I love in the summer, when I finish work, take the dog for a walk at the dunes, down to the beach about eight in the evening, walk in the surf or have a swim, dry off and sit on a high stool at the beach shack and enjoy an ice cold beer with my earbuds listing to jazz or blues.
some days there's a band playing so I have another beer, or maybe two more..... Sunset-And...1-jpeg.jpg 
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.
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
People running their mouth in the movie theater when you're trying to watch the movie that you just paid $15 to watch.
Videocalls since they inherently use the speaker phone. Nobody seems to remember when using speaker phone to talk was considered rude/lowclass
Loud people.
Clubbing is a bottom tier experience.
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.
At the back end of my life, after much wandering, I live in a little blue house with 4000 books.
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
Huh. When I played Delta Force and Comanche 4 20+ years ago I dreamed that someday it will be possible to play a online game with tanks, choppers, planes and what not. Then my dream came true. I like Battlefield 3 and 4. Was very interested in World of Tanks, played in closed beta and open beta and then when game came out. Now I just want to play offline, just to avoid hordes of morons which makes any game experience miserable. When I play online, very rare nowadays, I just ignore chat.
The news. 99% is clickbait or propaganda
Sorry, but no. Telling people 99% of news is lies a deliberate attempt to keep those people ignorant, uninformed and easily manipulated. Using a picture of the BBC to illustrate it is particularly vile.
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.
Young people.
I totally get it now.
This is a tough one. Youth are inherently ignorant and it is difficult to tolerate ignoramuses. But how can a group of ignorants be accountable for being ignorant?
Birthdays
I still love my birthday, and making a fuss of other peoples' so they get to feel special for the day :) (If that's what they would like, ofc)
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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...
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.
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Many of these things don't fit the title of the article. "Traffic" for example. When has that ever been "great"?!
The title is misleading, the question asked in the text bit was about things you tolerate less as you get older
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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.
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...
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.
Load More Replies... Many of these things don't fit the title of the article. "Traffic" for example. When has that ever been "great"?!
The title is misleading, the question asked in the text bit was about things you tolerate less as you get older
Load More Replies... 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.
