Hey Pandas, What Is The Most Overrated Modern-Day Thing? (Closed)

Dating apps.

College. It once was fairly priced well and helped people get jobs, now it costs so much that people go into debt for years just trying to pay it off. And jobs make you get one too, so you can't easily get a job with a good salary unless you have college.

“Freedom”. The pursuit of freedom is causing the death of freedom.

Clickbait designed to keep you scrolling, like Bored Panda...

How you're either popular in school, or you not, and you have no control over it

TikTok, BeReal, and Instagram.

More of a gamer thing, and not something that is a necessity, but games with a Freemium Model, or that rely heavily on Microtransactions.

To those who aren't gamers, Freemium Modeled Games are sold for free, but they have very predatory microtransactions that force you to pay if you either want to progress in the game much sooner, or to unlock limited time skins.

A great example is Fortnite. While the game itself is free, there are premium rare skins that can be unlocked (usually of whatever franchise is getting a lot of attention in the media at the time). They could be acquired by playing the game, and getting in game currency by playing, but it will be to a considerably reduced amount to spending real world money to fast track yourself.

It's even more insulting on games that cost money (like $60 or $70) that have predatory microtransactions... Especially if they aren't built for multiplayer. *cough, cough* Ubisoft *cough, cough*

dirty shoes for $3,000, im 12 years old and i dont get why thats a style now, kids dont either, i get picked on for having old vans, why is it now cool to have them?

Self Checkouts!

"Nuff Said!

Streaming Services. You pay a fortune to get all the different channels. More than cable. Unless you only watch one channel, i.e. Disney, Discovery, Hulu, Netflix, etc., you'll pay for each one

Social Media aka lookie me lookie me. no one cares.

Money, i know this sounds strange but we need to get back into bartering and things like that

Tapping your credit card instead of swiping it.

Is that where I'm losing time during the day? Do I suddenly have a plethora of time because I saved .8 seconds not having to actually swipe the card?

I miss buying something and owning it. I'm mad that when I buy something like a video game or software that it doesn't work independently. For function and updates, you have to have a subscription and pay every month or year, etc. Even if it doesn't have a subscription but you still have to connect to their site for it to work.

Elon Musk

Every villain getting an origin story. We don't care just make them evil for evil's sake. Don't want/ need a movie to find out they are just misunderstood. Like Cruella we don't need to know she was into fashion and something unfortunate happened. (haven't seen the movie) All we need to know is that she wanted to make a coat out of puppies.

that there is an app for literally EVERYTHING!!!!!! dating,food,banks,sports(dragonfly) ,you name it !
well have an amazing day hope its filled with joy and laughter

Spell check! I find that it causes even more backspacing and retyping because of the “corrections” that it decides you wanted when you didn’t.

Tanning and high heels, also selfies.

SNS. You can absolutely exist without joining one, but there will be always a relative or friend to pester you about it.