" I wish everyone would stop send every small affair on social medium . "
Recently, weaskedour Gen Z readers to share the trends and habits they wish their generation would stop doing. Because let’s face it, nobody knows how to call you out quite like your own peers.
So without further ado, here are the things Gen Z wishes Gen Z would stop doing:
1.Side-by-side texting:
" Texting someone when you ’re aright next to them ! It ’s so nettlesome , like , they ’re right next to you . Be a normal human and babble out to them ! "
— radiantoctopus824
2.Feeding the trolls:
" The trend of believing whatever you see on the internet . Surprisingly , way too many of my champion are horrible at fact - checking . Despite being the coevals that grew up with the cyberspace , we do n’t seem to remember that the great unwashed can just straight - up Trygve Halvden Lie online with no repercussions . They can sayrandom fact , lie down about a degree or life experience , or even guess to be raw , annoying , or politically incorrect for chink . I ’ve also acknowledge that millennials seem to be more conscious of when someone is simply being a trolling or controversial for care , whereas Gen Z seems more eager to lease with and compensate speculative behavior , which usually just reinforces it . "
— anon.
3.Oversharing:
" I take heed this from my friends ( old Gen Zs on the leaflet of millennian ) , but the younger Gen Z new hires at their problem just talk about anything and everything , which makes citizenry super uncomfortable . They ’ve openly talk about super personal things — completely out of the downhearted , unrelated to any anterior conversation — with coworkers they just meet , initiated inappropriate conversation , and asked upper management dumb questions instead of their coworkers or direct supervisors .
I love that Gen Z is all about legitimacy , nakedness , and renormalise thing that are unnecessarily stigmatized . But there ’s a line , and I remember Gen Z struggles to understand the pipeline of decorousness and that it ’s good to have those boundary at work , for both yourself and others . "
— alyxa2
4.Saying “un-alived”:
" Using self - censor TikTok - speak elsewhere on the internet or ( god forbid ) IRL . You do n’t have to say ' seggs , ' you’re able to just say ' sex . ' "
5.Flipping thrifted clothes:
" make thrifting so goddamned expensive and gentrifying it . "
— goosethekitty
6.Oversimplifying:
" This might be controversial , but I think we are too polarize . Often I feel Gen Z’ers interpret things as black and white , and have a hard fourth dimension acknowledge gray areas in morals and ethics . This can be a practiced thing — it means that hoi polloi and mental home are held accountable when they wound hoi polloi — but I also think that we end up oversimplify conflicts and preventing forgiveness and ontogenesis . Also , I intend sometimes we are too sensitive . mass make mistakes , and that does n’t needfully make them a bad individual or someone we should cancel . "
— sportysun87
7.Oversharing (on social media):
" I ’m 18 , and I wish everyone would cease posting every piddling matter on societal media . Nobody cares about your tough interpreting of a popular TikTok dance . No one wants to see you cry . No one need to know every waking moment of your life . My Friend wonder why I have limited social medium : That ’s why . "
8.Labeling:
" Calling everything an ' esthetic ' and frame a label on bang everything , like ' strawberry female child , ' ' vanilla girl , ' ' blueberry bush nail , ' and ' cherry cola lips . ' You are n’t a fucking ' tomato plant girl , ' you just like the colour red . Blueberry nail are not a affair , it ’s just wanton blue nail . cherry red El Salvadoran colon lips are n’t a thing , it ’s just light red lipstick with benighted liner — a thing that ’s been around for decade . "
— oddcrab79
9.Judging based on trends:
" create expensive manner trends . AND behave like they are better than everyone when they own the items . "
— bougierockstar31
10.Being disrespectful:
" While not a ' trend ' so to talk , I think the sense of entitlement and want of basic respect has to go . I just graduated mellow school , and from what I ’ve seen so far from a lot of my match , they just palpate like they can do and/or say anything they want whenever they need . I know very well it ’s not everyone , but far too many people think it ’s coolheaded to just disrespect teacher and other citizenry in self-confidence ( I know other propagation have this too , but I conceive social metier has made it worse ) , while their protagonist film it , for countless others to see and possibly copy .
Parents do n’t do enough to discipline their kids any longer , and teachers are terrified to do anything about it because then they ’ll have Johnny ’s parent occur after them and threatening to sue over something that should ’ve been treat a retentive fourth dimension ago . "
— redprincess20
11.Being the internet police:
" Policing other hoi polloi online and feeling entitled to yobo others if they step out of line . If someone is ignorant on an issue , you have to discourse with them if you need a prospect for their view and action to change , not call them names / dox them / etc . "
— sillyexgf
12.Bringing “main character energy”:
" babble out so f***ing loud in public and taking up so much industrious infinite in cosmopolitan . I knead at a coffee workshop and get quite a few young multitude coming in and making a vista about every little matter they do . I totally understand ( and appreciate ) that some people are of course more boisterous but a sight of times I can separate citizenry are forcing it to get attention from strangers . The whole ' main eccentric energy ' thing has people acting like they ’re in their own sitcom or doing me a favor by include me in their plot . I think we could all stand up to chill out a piddling . "
13.Being uninformed:
" I have noticed many the great unwashed my age remember it ’s cunning to be uninformed . Several mass in my form could n’t name the Vice President of the United States . They all thought it was hilarious ! It utterly made me require to chuck . And if a well - intentioned person attempt to explain an issue to them , they do n’t like . I ’m not pronounce this is true for all ; this is just what I have assure in my day - to - day life . "
14.Using AAVE:
" Talking in AAVE . It ’s ethnical appropriation have from both the black and LGBTQIA+ community . So when some straight white someone uses that slang , it ’s just cringeworthy . "
15.Calling off work too much:
" call out from study always , but question why we do n’t get scheduled anymore . I have so many coworkers my own age ( 18 - 22 ) who do this and then render to say manager are unfair for require reliable people to fill shifts . Yeah babes , if you keep calling out every Saturday , do n’t get all shocked Pikachu face when you do n’t get those shifting anymore . This is not rocket science ; it ’s just bear witness up for the job you applied to . "
16.Ghosting:
" Hookup polish is out of hand , IMO , and it has made ghosting more common . No one seems to desire to put in the effort to get to know multitude , and they do n’t communicate with people . It ’s rude , and my generation need to countenance go of the ' I do n’t owe anyone anything ' outlook . Yes , you do . When you ’re drop dead out with them , you owe them respect as a somebody to communicate and not leave randomly . "
— isthisall
17.Relying on parents:
" trust on parents to help you and do the difficult thing for you ! As a Gen Z’er who has just join the workforce , the expectations are on the ground for us , and older colleagues really are expecting the bad from us because of anterior experiences . Not just with parent but in all aspects . A former employee at our company did n’t know how to quit a chore , so his papa call in his supervisor to quit for him . My confrere now give me and others my eld some not - so - form looks when we even name our parents facilitate us with anything . "
18.Vaping:
" I ’m 16 . The vaping and casual drug manipulation needs to stop , for multiple reasons . It ’s just annoying because , yes , people are addicted , but when they vape in the bath at school , it ’s because they lie with they ’ll eventually get have and just require the aid and ill fame from getting caught because they suppose they do n’t get enough attention . "
19.Virtue signaling:
" I wish well Gen Zers would give up virtue signaling about complicated issue we know niggling to nothing about while thin them to binary , either - or proffer . Virtue signaling does nothing to change the issues ; reducing them to double star is even worse because it stifles shade and can protract the issues . "
20.And finally:
" Mullets . Just no . "
Submissions may have been edited for length or clarity .
