To ask when/if you realised you were the out of touch older generation

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This year more than any I've realised just how out of touch I am with changes to society, before I was part of it but now the younger generations are changing and I'm the out of touch older generation, it's a weird feeling.

Massive, dark eyebrows make me feel old and out of touch. I just think they look ridiculous.

Realising that if I went to a nightclub I wouldn’t have a clue what to wear.

I was idly filling in a buzzfeed quiz on the bus, and I was outside the top age range in their drop-down list (it stopped at 40-49 and I'm 52).

Not being able to use instagram.

Not knowing who’s who on the sidebar of shame.

When I relate to the parents of the teen shows of my youth.

When I realised I have no idea what's popular, what is considered cool in music. I used to be really into it, now I have no idea who is in the charts, who is actually considered good and so on.

And everything I hear just sounds like trash. A friends teenager recommended Post Malone and Billy Eilish and it just sounded like nothing. But I assume it is considered good.

Seeing the make up skills of teenage girls today. I’m still not sure how the can afford it

IT. Most IT now has me baffled. Young people are so at home with it. And quick! They've sorted and done things in the time it takes me to figure out how to switch the phone/iPad/netbook on😆

Malcolm in the Middle is the litmus test. If you sympathise with the kids then you are still young. If you sympathise with the parents then you are past it. I think I flipped over somewhere in my late 20s/early 30s.

Angry birds eyebrows and crop tops. They're everywhere.

Reading the track listing on the most recent 'Now.....' CD (see, even saying that makes me sound old!). I have never hear of any of them.

Yes, I’m 37 and:

1. Don’t know about K Pop
2. Couldn’t tell you a single thing about who’s in the charts now....

3.... but when I hear NEW bands on 6Music think “ach what a lot of noise, I’m my day we had Kenickie”

1. No idea about snapchat et al

I'm 38. It's Snapchat I don't get. I'm hardly on Instagram. I've no idea who the new 'famous' kids are. Most music sounds like trash to me.

I don't know who most of the Love Island contestants are and I don't really care.

Technology.

The thought of driverless cars scares me, and drones flying about the place. Also Alexa type things that sit in your home listening to every word.

When we voted Brexit and America voted Trump.

Thought the world had gone mad

Couldn't get the hang of snap chat

I have no urge to contour anything

No way would I wear a crop top anymore

Comfort over fashion nearly every time 😁

With tech I make myself keep up. If my kids get a new app then so do I. I refuse to be that parents that has no idea how the kids love. So I get Snapchat etc, and through that I vaguely know the current celebs. You can keep up if you want, tech is pretty simple nowadays.

What makes me feel out of touch are the gender debates. I just don’t get the general acceptance by my kids that biological sex is an outdated idea.

When my younger colleagues told me no one meets on a nights out, you go on nights out with people you've hooked up with online.
I thought OLD was for over 25s maybe looking for love or a fuck. I didn't realise no one actually chats anyone up anymore on bars and clubs.
Such a waste now they don't need to ruin a good lippy or eyeliner writing phone numbers on the back of a beer mat!!

I'm not sure it's the first time, but it really sunk in when I was out clothes shopping with dd recently. I could hear the exact words my mum used to say about ripped jeans coming out of my mouth, and even used the words 'I remember when that was fashionable the first time around'!

For me it's not knowing or caring about 'you tubers' or 'influencers' - I think it's all vacuous shite, but the kids are obsessed.

Not being able to master Snapchat and YouTube. I can watch videos on YouTube, but I tend to go with a specific thing in mind (Yoga with Adrienne, that's it, that the one thing I do with YouTube).
Finding out I was older than my colleagues parents! I am 45, and we have a fab midwife at work. Was gutted when she mentioned her Mum and Dad were both 42.

When the person I relate to most on Celebrity Googlebox is Sheila Hanocock

When my 12yo DS had to explain a new Instagram feature (even though I'm an avid user)

When I recently paired a loose white linen shirt with tan trousers - I think I looked nice but acknowledged it was an outfit my mum would also love

I'm still hanging in there though - I love Love Island!

Working in a school makes you feel like you're another species to anyone under 25.
We went to a party upstairs in a club in the town we grew up in. The club bit itself was described as the seven circle of hell by one of my friends. Then me and another friend(who were pretty wild dressers in the 80s) morphed into our mothers tutting at the lack of clothes the women wore. And heels! How did we walk and dance in them all night?

I was never very cool and have never cared. I think many young people have sad lives, the whole make up thing seems to be allowed early, they are addicted to technology which them makes them unhappy. The buy clothes for a couple of £ then dump them I very wrong on every level, but seems the done thing.

And the easy access to drugs and the resulting violence .....

Glad none of the above existed before 2000

Until recently I thought the Kardashians were one of the alien races on Star Trek. I had no idea they were real people. It is surprisingly easy to avoid popular culture even without trying very hard (and I'm not trying, I like it as much as the next person).