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Locking yourself in a room and trying to escape for fun - How strange that people will call it a bonding experience, and pay a pretty price for it!

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Having close relationships with people around the world… - And yet never speaking to your next-door neighbor...

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Walking around with no real money - How far can a flimsy plastic card get you?

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Sending your dog to 'doggy daycare' - You mean you want to pay someone else to have fun with your dog?

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Stealing music and movies right out of thin air - Fifty years ago, this might've been better known as witchcraft.

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Buying distressed/ripped clothing - You mean people spend money to look like they don't have that much money?

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Calling someone’s phone to ask where they are - They're at home, where their phone is. Right?

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Everything about how we watch TV - Recording shows, skipping ads, picking from different movies at home, and pausing live TV is a modern luxury. Even the younger kids today will never know what it was like to fight for the remote.

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Staring at a phone for hours - Then again, it's hard to find a modern phone that's solely a phone.

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Smoking outside the restaurant - You mean people don’t like second-hand smoke anymore?

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Putting water in bottles and selling them - That’s a hefty price for something you can get for free…

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Violence and sex in the media - From video games to advertisements, the acceptable level of graphic violence and inappropriate imaging is much higher.

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Describing every detail of your life to the public -

There is firstly the question of who even cares, and secondly the question of how that computer fits in your pocket.

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Telecommuting jobs - How can an office be a 'virtual' space in your home?

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Accepting rides from strangers - Even the things people believed just 10 years ago, like "don’t meet strangers from the Internet," have been completely replaced with apps like Uber.

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Taking pictures of your food - What a waste of film!

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Charging your cigarette - Instead of lighting up leaves, kids these days are sucking on what looks like a USB flash drive—another incomprehensible part of modern life.

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Staying in touch with everyone - Organic relationships that come and go are a thing of the past, and now it's more common to collect more and more "friends" till death do you log out.

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Refraining from manned space exploration - It was all about getting men up to space, and now we're sending robots.

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Having a flat TV - And one that's hanging on the wall? But where are all the mechanics?

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Driving to places less than half a mile away - People of the future seem to walk less and less…

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The sheer capacity for action while on the toilet - You can buy plane tickets, read something educational, order food, and send work emails, all while relieving yourself.

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Not having to talk out loud to anyone - You can have relationships over text messaging, you can order food and clothing online, enjoy endless entertainment at your fingertips, and never face a salesperson.

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Non-user-serviceable products - Companies now specifically make products that can't be fixed by the average consumer, and their specialty repairmen charge such a high price that you might as well buy a new one.

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Swiping through hundreds of potential dates - Sure, people would go on dates with people they'd met through newspaper ads, but there never seemed to be so many fish in the sea as there are at your fingertips.

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Throwing something away and buying a new one - The phrase "If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it" kind of implied that if it did break, you should fix it.

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Taking out loans to go to college - Then having them hang over your head for the next decade...

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Plugging in your books - The same goes for your car!

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Only having prearranged visits -

When was the last time someone dropped by because they saw your porch light was on? There's no more "dropping by"—there is only texting "Hey I’m outside" instead of using the doorbell.

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The use of emojis instead of words -

Sending little images of smiley faces, piles of smiling poop, and everything in between would not fly for grown adults half a century ago.

See also: Everyday things we use that will soon disappear

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