To as what you don't like about modern life and stuck two fingers up to?

[thelastshadowpuppet]

For me, it was my mobile phone and apps.

I felt like I couldn't get away from notifications, the beeping, bopping and hopping of my phone drove me mad.

You can silence notifications you know OP...

Social media.

I'm not on Facebook, Instagram etc and have no interest in being on them.

I'm only in my 30s but just have no interest in being on them.

I don’t like it that you can’t just turn up to anywhere anymore without notice! 🙄
i fucking hate the fact that you have to plan your weekend in advance! I want to have the option to be spontaneous! I don’t know now what we will all want to do next weekend! It’s pathetic that everywhere is still clinging to the “covid” excuse. Really annoys me!

Twitter and any social media developed after that. Any sort of fitbit or health monitoring technology.

I've turned off pretty much all notifications.

For me - driving a car, just no fun and stressful

@thelastshadowpuppet It's not quite sticking two fingers up, but I have steadfastly avoided smartphones, ipads, etc. I have the same mobile phone I've had since the 90s (indestructible Nokia which really is the size of a brick). Anyone who wants to speak to me can ring me on my home phone. I am using the same imac as I was when I joined MN in 2004.

Oh, and the lack of an online device means there is no reason, ever, to bother with social media. Thank God.

It pisses me off that so many companies/Post Office/dentists etc expect you to be able to scan codes on apps. Plus bloody Waitrose now only have their special offers available to people with apps - rather than people who have been shopping at Waitrose for 40 years.

@TheWayoftheLeaf it was everything not just notifications, passwords for this and that and just being contactable every minute of the day.

People thought I was bonkers when I said I didn't have a mobile. It was bliss.

Online booking systems that don’t work properly

@legohead09 oh god yes, I'm not on anything! Love it

Cars

Totally agree
Surelynits discrimination to only give offers to people with an app

@SnotsGotTheBoobies it's such a shame isn't it. No one rings me to arrange to drop in. I can't think of a time when my family would have to arrange to see me, knock at the door, if I'm home then you're very welcome.

My family don't actually knock, they just walk in shock horror.

Women feeling the need to post sexualised pictures of themselves online

I’m on social for the sake of marketing my business, but no apps on my phone and log on once or twice a week from my laptop to catch anything.

my friends know where I live/have my number/email.

alexa, Google assist, Siri.

I don’t need something in my house to either yell at or be yelled at by.

video monitors for kids, and breathing monitors- unless the child has a health concern.

I honestly think it creates more anxiety and paranoia than it relieves.

Botox and fillers

Toxic social media (in some ways I am a hypocrite as I am on sites like these which I class as social media as well as Twatter etc).

I find them hideous at times whilst being really great in other ways. People wouldn't meet new friends without it a lot of the time. That said, it is so toxic - people say things they wouldn't dare say in real life for fear of being punched in the face. My general rule is if you won't say it to someone in real life, don't say it online. I hate pile-ons - where people just gang up and rip into some hapless soul for having the "wrong" opinion. There's no need for it at all.

I also find that people can't think in nuanced ways anymore. You do get sane people, yet so many people see things as good/bad, right/wrong and these dualities really make people miserable. It has probably been magnified by social media because most people used to just think this shit in the comfort of their own homes, so we didn't have people chattering on about it so blatantly as we do now. The Brexit/trans/race/feminism debates are rife with it. Everyone screams at each other, nobody actually speaks politely. You can understand another perspective and still not condone it - yet I have come across more and more people over the past decade who are miserable because other people have a different view of life than they do.

Racism in the UK which I had never seen before. It was only when I saw the outpouring of compassion for Ukrainians that I started asking myself why don't brown people get the same kind of kindness. I'd like to think its a small minority of people who shout the loudest though I find people around me shed tears for Ukrainian kids whilst shrugging shoulders at brown kids lying face-down, dead on the beach.

People believing in proven liars and the double standards between what people expect from the Tories and other parties. If Labour had performed as Johnson has they would be widely condemned and wouldn't have a single supporter. Yet people STILL say they prefer Johnson over the relatively clean Starmer.

Sorry I've gone political! But that's what I don't like about modern day life.

Oh and I agree too @SnotsGotTheBoobies !

I hate this pre planned world. If I want to get the train to the city right now, and have dinner, I don’t want to have had to pre book. If my friends want to share a bottle of wine tonight, they know to come and knock on my gates!

Instagram and Twitter. Never been near either, very happy about it.

@Momicrone Why shouldn't they post sexualised pictures? If they are confident and happy to do so I don't see what the problem is. Lets not get into this weird belief that women shouldn't be seen as sexualised beings. Women can be seen as attractive and that's perfectly fine. Humans have evolved to favour those more attractive than others and that is also fine.

Also... James Corden, Amanda Holden and programs like BGT, X-Factor, Love Island, Married at First Sight etc. Its all tiresome BS.

The whole ridiculous bloody effort over skincare. Fifty chemicals one top of each other. Aiming for flawless. No thank you.

I'm also boycotting a local supermarket because you have to download their parking app for it. Bollocks to that.

For me it started with turning off voicemail 15 years ago. Nope, you have multiple ways of contacting me and I don't have time to listen to your long rambling messages. Text/email and now add in WhatsApp/slack me with your message and I will respond at a time that is convenient to me. This was quickly followed by binning the landline phone. I'm not running back and forth between the 2 when you're trying to contact me, primarily directed at my mother but also see point 1, message me on the mobile, I'm not guaranteeing to make myself instantly available to anyone that wants to ask me something or tell me something 24 hours a day.

More recently have added in a complete ban on voicenotes which people younger than me at work seem to think constitute normal human interaction. Nope. I do not do voicenotes. If I see one, I assume it is a but dial and delete them. Your time is NOT more valuable than mine and I do not have the time or patience to listen to them or you wittering on. If you want to communicate with me, its a 2 way conversation where I can point out you're talking rubbish without having to listen to 7 minutes of it and/or back to point 1 - text/email/whatsapp/slack me so that I can read and respond when convenient to me.

Working my ass off at work - now aiming to work at 70% capacity