The world is never the same place as it was the day before. Whether we're talking about environmental, societal, or other changes, it always keeps evolving.
So when Reddit user Firewire64 made a post on the platform, asking its users to name the things that are slowly phasing out in 2022, they received a lot of interesting insights.
We often miss prolonged, subtle processes. Having an opportunity to discuss them, even if it's online, can allow us glimpses into the direction we're all heading. So continue scrolling and check out the answers to Firewire64's question.
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Women’s’ rights
Yeah, I don’t understand why this is downvoted either… do people not think women’s rights are in jeopardy? I mean, if they don’t live in the US maybe nothing has changed in their world so this doesn’t impact them. Being American, Roe v Wade being overturned is terrifying to me.
Affordable food at the grocery store. It’s fine, it’s not like I need food to survive.
Privacy
Yep. In china, everything you do once you set foot out of ur home is recorded.
Social acceptance for cigarette smoking in public. Like the old-fashioned light-them-on-fire tobacco smokes.
I go all over for work, and it’s a noticeable event if someone smells like smoke. No buildings seem to have smoking areas anymore, even the butt cans are rare sightings. Can you even imagine someone lighting up *inside a restaurant*? People still do it, but they almost have to hide it, only smoking at home or in their cars or vaping while out and about. When you come out of a store and you smell cigarette smoke, it’s noticeable because it’s not always there. The difference from 10 years ago is huge. 20 years ago this would be unimaginable.
I am severely asthmatic and if I have to walk through some employee's cigarette smoke to enter a business, I turn around and take my business elsewhere. Not worth it.
NFTs
And I hope they continue to fall in popularity because honestly they weren’t even popular to begin with, just a fad peddled by the rich.
Airbnb
Just stayed in this thing, - hotel they are calling it. Didn't have to take the garbage out, strip the room, pay a "cleaning" fee or feed anyone's cat. Hope they catch on.
Oh I tried those too! It was great, no random people knocking on the door looking for the owner either!
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When melbourne went into lockdown in 2020, someone complained that they'd have to sell some of their 22 Air Bnbs. Twenty two. It's far far away from a spare room or granny flat these days.
Tried it once-it worked out far more expensive than a hotel. And all the 'it's the experience you're paying for, meeting new people, feeling of 'belonging' and surrounding yourself in a new culture, immersing yourself in a new environment" nonsense is utterly c**p. My "host" confined me to the tiniest space, despite access to kitchen, living room and utility room being advertised. After that I went back to hotels and B&Bs, much more comfortable and welcoming.
I have loved every airbnb I have stayed in, EXCEPT my most recent. It seems as though a lot of people gave it a shot during covid as "easy money" without wanting to actually do the work, and it's sad to see that my conveniently cheaper and homier days of travel are probably over because of their greed.
I don’t think we hear about good experiences, only bad ones. The only one we stayed in was nice enough. We weren’t asked to do anything but respect the neighbours, though we left it tidy & put out the rubbish, we leave hotel rooms tidy and make sure rubbish is in the bin anyway. It was an 4 bed ex-council semi in my husband’s home town; usually we’d stay in a hotel and share a room with our disabled son but our daughter was coming too and was adamant she wasn’t sharing. It worked out cheaper than 2 hotel rooms and we got a bedroom to ourselves for a change!
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As someone pointed out, if you're not providing breakfast, it's just an Airb.
There will always be a market for both short term rentals and hotels. Usually I prefer staying in a house with friends, cooking meals, grilling outdoors, etc. Other people want to roll out of bed and hit the hotel buffet. There are good and bad hotels and Airbnbs.
Just go to a normal B&B , airbnb has contributed to the housing crisis
I hope not. I love all my Airbnb experiences. Would hate to go back to hotels.
F air Bnb, eat the rich who are profiting off this c**p and ruining our towns and cities!
I"ve rebelled against this since before it became a "trend". I don't even stay over my friend's houses unless I need to for some reason. I don't use "ride shares" either. The lack of regulation, inspection, safety measures and security concern me. I'd rather camp in a tent, in the rain, than stay in an Airbnb.
I've stayed in several Airbnb places and 99% of them were great experiences and way less expensive than a hotel. Plus we got a kitchen, more than one bedroom, a living area, dining room, more than one bathroom, and a TV with Roku. Once we even got a billiard table. I don't get what everyone is talking about, I feel like it's a great change from hotels.
I hope so! People call landlords evil for owning rental properties, but this is so much worse if we want housing to ever get more affordable! Plus, you never know who's going to be staying next door if your area/HOA allows it! I love not having to worry about locking my doors if I'm out running errands, or running into some rando outside, or loud people, etc!
Also hotels are making it so you can't check in until later and later. A friend had to come to my place for a few hours recently because his hotel check in time was 3pm. And they make you check out by 10 or 11 the next day and still charge you for a full day's price. It's ridiculous. It's happening with a lot of hotels now.
I'm pretty sure this has been standard since forever. They need time between bookings to clean the room, unless you want to sleep on dirty sheets.
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I Airbnb one of my apartments. It is a great way to make extra money. Why have a rental that only makes you $800 a month when you can make that in a weekend? My love of this country grows constantly! Which my hard work, I hope to use the equity to purchase another unit soon! Bless the USA!
My husband and I just just stayed in our first Airbnb and we really enjoyed it. Sure, we had to take out the trash and strip the linens but it was comfortable, private and had plenty of room.
This used to be a great app for finding a safe affordable space to couch crash on a road trip, student hop or bike tour. Now it's just an tax evading sleazy hotel site contributing to housing crisises. Paris's short term rentals law needs to be adopted world wide and stomp this out.
I think people need to read the fine print before they agree to any sort of stay whether it's hotel or vacation rental. I've always had good experiences with the Airbnb, but that's because I read through the whole rental before I book. Prepandemic they were all great and you didn't have to worry too much. Post pandemic I go through everything with the fine tooth comb and usually only stay in places that are shared with the owner. So a bedroom, a sweet, a basement apartment. I've never been compelled to take out trash, do laundry, or wash dishes. Although I will set the trash out and wash my dishes. If you don't want to do those kinds of things, stay in a hotel where you don't have to worry. Otherwise, I'd much prefer an Airbnb which is more comfortable and less stressful for me
Airbnb isn't "going out" just because the big hotel chains are frightened out of their minds by a little competition.
I honestly don't see the problem. People should read the description and PATRONIZE the ones that look GOOD and AVIOD the ones that look BAD. I've stayed at airbnbs (and hotels) all over the world. I've never had a bad experience with service and cleaning fees because they're right there in the description and when I see that they're outrageous I simply skip those places. Hosts add those fees because they think they can get away with them, and they do as long as people agree. No one forces you to take a bad deal. If you do that's not airbnb's fault.
Yes they used to be called vacation rentals.... now anyone with a shack calls an Airbnb and there's been some weird horror stories ...so yeah goodbye
This picture is the interior of a CitizenM hotel. I just stayed in one 2 months ago and was raving to my folks about how awesome it is. If all hotels are like CitizenM, nobody will go back to Airbnb ever..
Completely disagree. My home is welcoming, private, fully remodeled, quiet and in a safe, quiet, family neighborhood. Cleaned daily It's easy to find, easy self check in, New linens and bedding. Free bagels, jams, pastries and snacks and drinks in the room. Driveway parking. I get mostly traveling medical professionals. We have a teaching hospital in our town so there is a great need for affordable housing with kitchen and laundry. I have a new washer and dryer, great backyard with a fountain and fire pit and hammock. Flower garden and trees. Full use of fully stocked kitchen, fridge and pantry. I stay under the price of a hotel even with the one time booking fee. There is Airbnb insurance that covers everyone if something happens. So it really depends on what you are looking for, a shack, nice private room, private suite, which I also provide, Pay attention to what you are booking and read the reviews. Being a single mom for 22 years cleaning houses to survive, Airbnb is a life saver.
Never appealed to me. Just seems weird. And apparently it’s gotten weirder.
Does anyone realize AirBnB is not responsible for the rules at each rental? it's the individual owner? AirBnB is simply a website where owners can list their properties for rent.
AirBNB ruins neighborhoods! I have no neighbors, just transient, affluent boomer couples with gorgeous dogs. I'm a boomer. I love dogs! I will never get to know them, have drinks with them, invite them to dinner, etc. I live in a neighborhood of strangers! Oh, and none of the houses are all that well maintained...no landscaping! Welcome to Hendersonville, NC (near Asheville).
This would also be nice. Everyday there's at least one article about how Airbnb screwed someone or put them in a dangerous situation.
Yes! It looks exactly like the one I stayed at in Rotterdam.
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My Airbnb is lovely. Quiet, clean and has no stupid rules or extra fees.
Faith in the future of humanity
I disagree. I come on boardpanda on a regular basis and I find my faith in humanity restored regularly
Leisure time. Unless you're wealthy it's shocking to have any time off. Monday I had my first sick day in over a year and I was told I still need to make up my hours even if it means working overtime.
Even when you aren't working, shifts are so long it feels like you're losing your whole day and your days off are the only chance you have to catch up on cleaning and doctor's appointments and maintaining your life that it's hard to find the time to do any leisure activities. Just watching TV or making a meal feels like such a time investment because there's so little time to waste.
DVDs.
It’s been going on for a bit now but it’s still crazy how fast they went from king to nothing
Given the cost of living crisis a lot of folks are cancelling their streaming subscriptions. Many are either buying 2nd hand discs and /or ripping their media to have portable collections - that they actually own 😃
Cash… 2022 has seen a sharp rise in card only transactions
Honestly? Cheap and neat finds at antique/thrift stores. Most places upcharge outrageous amounts for the items they get in, especially if it's a legitimate antique or unique item. On top of that, a lot of what's being sold now are nicknacks and decorative items that were made cheap at the time, and no one wants anymore.
I think we're also phasing out of the cheap product phase for everything, or at least slowing down. More and more people are choosing to repurpose their items or try and fix them, rather than just tossing and buying something new. Repurposing is even easier than ever thanks to the internet, it's no longer a struggle to figure out how to fix s**t and to buy missing parts and tools that you'd need to get the job done.
My local op shop has two buildings, one is the usual cheap things and cheap clothes and the other is the higher end stuff like vintage clothes or collectibles. It works well.
Term lengths of UK pm's
I've heard they've installed a revolving door at #10 Downing 😉
Having a savings account.
24 hour Walmarts
I live in a 24hr city, and I feel for those who work nights and struggle to do their shopping now.
I think the straw has broken the camel's back on laughtrack sitcoms; How I Met your Father is the first one ive seen in years to use one and its... not good
Its jarring to see
So id say those are finally phasing out, with the norm being laughteack free funnies (which have existed for years now ofc, but are becoming the standard)
Manned registers.
not in africa, we have too many unemployed people. We need job creation.
Would love to add:. Affordable new and used cars. Paying 30% more now for the same car on the lot two years ago is crushing
Here it is more expensive to get a used car than a new one because you have to wait 9 months for a new one to come in from the manufacturer (18 months for hybrids)!
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Anything giving an individual pleasure and or joy will soon be phased out because it will offend someone else.
DVDs (I'm going to include Blu-ray here as well) have been mentioned. Physical media for games and production S/w that one owns is disappearing as well. Depending on an unreliable Internet connection to prove ownership much less access to the software (and the user generated files) is a rip off. Mind you one could foresee this with Tax software in the '90s that made your income tax forms locked to the software.
Now I'm really depressed. Too much pessimism for me as an old person nearing 80. 😢
It's true though this is the world now. It's not pessimistic it's facts
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I thought it would be like technology but instead it's just pessimistic nonsense
Newspapers. One can still buy them, but why bother when everything is online?
True but reading an actual newspaper used to be a pleasure. And looking forward to the colour comics as a child? Good times! Too bad they are gone…
Load More Replies... I was just coming to say "people having different opinions and being civil about it". Freaking ridiculous how polarized everything is, and how much people dislike not being an echo chamber.
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I don't think anyone of reasonable intelligence has a problem with diversity of opinions, as long as they're backed up with rational arguments.
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Would love to add:. Affordable new and used cars. Paying 30% more now for the same car on the lot two years ago is crushing
Here it is more expensive to get a used car than a new one because you have to wait 9 months for a new one to come in from the manufacturer (18 months for hybrids)!
Load More Replies... Anything giving an individual pleasure and or joy will soon be phased out because it will offend someone else.
DVDs (I'm going to include Blu-ray here as well) have been mentioned. Physical media for games and production S/w that one owns is disappearing as well. Depending on an unreliable Internet connection to prove ownership much less access to the software (and the user generated files) is a rip off. Mind you one could foresee this with Tax software in the '90s that made your income tax forms locked to the software.
Now I'm really depressed. Too much pessimism for me as an old person nearing 80. 😢
It's true though this is the world now. It's not pessimistic it's facts
Load More Replies... I thought it would be like technology but instead it's just pessimistic nonsense
Newspapers. One can still buy them, but why bother when everything is online?
True but reading an actual newspaper used to be a pleasure. And looking forward to the colour comics as a child? Good times! Too bad they are gone…
Load More Replies... I was just coming to say "people having different opinions and being civil about it". Freaking ridiculous how polarized everything is, and how much people dislike not being an echo chamber.
Load More Replies... I don't think anyone of reasonable intelligence has a problem with diversity of opinions, as long as they're backed up with rational arguments.
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