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My old person trait is that I think 'ghosting' is completely unacceptable and you owe the other person a face-to-face conversation.

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[–] MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (15 children)

I DO NOT owe you a text back. If I'm not physically w you, I owe you very little in terms of interaction. I come home, throw my phone under the bed, and ignore till morning, and I prob won't answer you then either. It's not personal...usually.

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[–] Navarian@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Likely an outdated one, or one that's already been given a number of times, but – Physical Books.

I'm not entirely 'anti' e-reader, the benefits are obvious. I'm just VERY pro physical book.

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[–] MrPeach4tlanta@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The third one is my old person trait. Also, grumpiness, and wanting the right to repair my own devices.

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[–] fiasco@possumpat.io 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mine is that a cellphone should be a phone first, instead of being a shitty computer first and a celllphone as a distant afterthought.

[–] cornbread@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This might be the only actual old person trait in this thread (OP included). The rest is basically just “I don’t want to be fucked over.”

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[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I don't want an iPad glued to my car's dashboard. Touch screens are fine but the current screen sizes and placement are ridiculous. It's a car, the screen shouldn't be distracting you.

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[–] BornVolcano@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My old person trait is when someone tells me what they mean, they better damn well be telling me what they mean, because I'm not gonna play mind games with them. If you tell me you're not upset then I'll believe you're not upset, I'm honouring you and your words and trusting that you're being upfront and honest with what you want me to know. And if you secretly are upset, it's not my responsibility to know that, you did not tell me.

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[–] visiblink@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like to stay home. Leave me alone.

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[–] neocamel@vlemmy.net 22 points 1 year ago

My old person trait is when someone offers me coffee, I look at my watch.

[–] elbowdrop@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

10pm being late. When I was young I would stay up until 2-3 am doing stuff.

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[–] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Most of these "old person traits" are stuff most people agree with, just like r/unpopularopinion. We've been cursed with reddit.

[–] Ichi_matsu@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We don’t use the R word here.

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[–] kenbw2@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

My old person trait is that most of these sound like very recent problems

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My old person trait is that I want to not be milked for data

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[–] ckskate@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Mine is that I miss the days when physical media (DVDs, VHS, etc) was the main way to own media

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[–] luka@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

My old person trait is that I don't like short form video, I learn and internalize less and find that my day is chipped away at by tiktok or youtube shorts when I allow myself to watch them.

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[–] Pandoras_Can_Opener@mander.xyz 18 points 1 year ago

Yeah that line was used by my abusers way to often. They just "can't understand" why I'd go no contact. As if the last 300 explanations were somehow non existent. Nope. I don't owe you anything.

And my old person trait is my walking stick I suppose.

[–] rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

My old person trait is that I think kids today are underinformed and overopinionated, especially when it causes them to hold opinions with which I disagree. All other times the kids are alright.

[–] mysoulishome@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

In my 40’s I feel like everything about me is an old person trait.

As a trauma survivor, all of the people I’ve ghosted in my life were toxic and bad for my mental, physical and emotional health and I have no regrets. It’s kind of like the Billy Crystal speech in When Harry Met Sally, except the opposite. When you realize you don’t ever want to see a person again for the rest of your life…you want the rest of your life to start immediately

[–] ragnarokonline@vlemmy.net 17 points 1 year ago (6 children)

My old person trait is that I think it’s insulting for there to be an option to tip when going through a drive through.

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[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Can't tell if this is face value mockery of younger generations willingly submitting to being fucked over by corporations for profit (maybe because of dependance on the convenience of modern technology), or if this is actually younger people making light of the abysmal state of consumer protection (probably caused by the older generation).

Maybe it's Poe's law, maybe it's a bit of both, or maybe this is just my own old person trait.

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[–] Draegur@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I kinda agree with you op on ghosting being unacceptable, but NOBODY is entitled to see my face NO ONE. It is not ghosting to straight up tell someone "I am no longer interested in continuing to stay in contact with you."

Likewise, my old person trait is the belief that your identity and all details pertaining to it are PERSONAL including voice, likeness, biometric statistics, location, interests - basically, the default human presence online is TEXT ONLY AND NO DESCRIPTION OF ANYTHING CONCRETE until and unless they choose to intentionally disclose more, and nobody, not one mother FUCKING person OR THING has the right to demand of you any more than that. Lastly, that you should guard your information greedily and viciously.

[–] shadowfly@feddit.de 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  • Just installed a messenger. It uses more RAM than my first PC had for displaying a simple, empty list. I find that inexcusable.
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[–] WarpScanner@lemmy.fmhy.ml 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I dislike and distrust short form video based social media. But that seems to be the common response.

IDK if I even consider that an "old person" trait though because there are lots of Zoomers that seem to hate it to. Though I wonder if that's because generational cultures are melding together more because of the internet.

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[–] Grishaix@feddit.de 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My old person trait is that a digital file I paid for should be DRM free.

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[–] mercurly@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 year ago

I had two friends quit call centers within a month of joining because it immediately sent them into a depression.

I'm sorry for everything you have to deal with at work.

[–] Gabu@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I don't understand TikTok... at all. Like, what's even the point as a user?

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[–] AngryHippy@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

My old person trait is that I think that the company I buy a product from should be the seller and the shipper of the product.

[–] Valravn@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

My old person trait is that I don't trust paying with your phone. My whole family does it and it has never gone wrong, but I feel uneasy

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[–] S0L1DX@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

My old person trait is I think cashless-only businesses should be illegal.

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