Recent questions tagged trends

Description : Do you feel like you know so many sick people right now?

Last Answer : No, nobody I know, currently, is sick.

Description : How do I be a "trendy 2019 teen"?

Last Answer : Be a good person and help others. But don’t help others as a “show”. Don’t make videos of yourself doing good deeds. Do them because it truly helps someone.

Description : Do you follow any futurists?

Last Answer : No, I used to read some of them back when I was in high school in the 70s, but most have been widely off the mark.

Description : Are you covered in tats but never been to jail?

Last Answer : Shaolin Monks have tats, and they don’t cause trouble.

Description : Ladies: Do you wear Uggs or similar style boots?

Last Answer : I think they’re hideous. I’ve never worn them. I have, however, observed many, many young women trying to trudge around campus in them, despite the fact that the Uggs’ poor support makes it look like they have some sort of ankle deformation.

Description : Have you or anyone you know named their newborn baby after a character in the Hunger Games?

Last Answer : I might name a baby Primrose, but it wouldn’t be after a character in Hunger Games. My great great grandmother was named Primrose, so that would be my only reason to use it.

Description : Is nerdiness where it's at in terms of social success?

Last Answer : answer:Nerds get involved in projects and seem to be able to focus on them exclusively, without getting distracted by other things. They will work long hours purely because it interests them. This ... 'm going to have some breakfast now but will add more a little later @wundayatta GOOD question!

Description : What do you think about the trend towards extended story arcs in movies and television?

Last Answer : I've always had more of a preference to serials, as opposed to episode-to-episode series, but I don't think it's taking over television. Since there are so many stations, the serials are ... new one, it's just becoming more noticeable now because the market is expanding and more are emerging.

Description : IN & OUT in 2012?

Last Answer : answer:In: and Out Burger. Out: back restaurants. In: sanity. Out: houses.

Description : Ear piercings (cartilage, not lobes) is a meaning attached to the individual locations on the ear?

Last Answer : It’s just decoration. There are a lot of stories about earring meanings, but they don’t hold up. Most of them are schoolyard myths.

Description : Bizarrely, do you find that sympathy wanes the more people know from their own experience how you are feeling?

Last Answer : answer:First, I’m sorry that you are feeling so bad. I had pneumonia last month and I can genuinely empathize. I don’t think it applies to other things. If stuff is going around, people feel they got through it so you will too.

Description : What are the jobs of the future?

Last Answer : The skills of old may be handy in our future. Bartering your skills may be the way, farming; hunting; sewing; mechanical maintenance; entertainment and other basic crafts may be in high demand if the shit hits the fan as we near the end of capitalism.

Description : In the area you live in, how old are teens when the majority have (or seem to have) their own cell phones?

Last Answer : answer:Back in California I live in a lower to middle class suburban city in the east bay area. Most kids in high school, and some kids in middle school tend to have cell phones, but ... political agenda, but they're the people I usually come upon in rural Illinois rather than suburban California.

Description : Are there any songs that you did not like when they first came out, but weeks, months or years later you liked and appreciated?

Last Answer : I absolutely loathed Another One Bites the Dust by Queen when it came out when I was in high school. I heard it a week or so ago and while I can’t say I liked it, I did enjoy hearing Freddie Mercury’s voice and appreciated the song.

Description : Feature question: might we ever have a # of views counter thingy next to each question?

Last Answer : I think it would be neat. I think it would be great if it was linked to some other functionality – like a “greatest” or “hot questions” search function.

Description : Changing your facebook picture to a cartoon character, to fight child abuse. Can you explain how this is supposed to work?

Last Answer : all it does is bring attention to a cause. I see those things all the time, after the first time I ignore it. nobody will care if you don’t change your profile picture. If someone does question you, you can ask THEM how it is supposed to work!

Description : Are Facebook and Twitter really that great, or are they just filling a void?

Last Answer : answer:What need? To me, the effects of social networking are greatly exaggerated. Both negative and positive.

Description : What is the ugliest name you've ever heard of?

Last Answer : Quinteria.

Description : Long skirts the trend, but do they make 5'4" and under women look shorter than they are?

Last Answer : From the photo it looks like she is tripping over her feet. Her right foot is caught on the fabric that is dragging on the ground. Not very realistic or practical. She is also rail thin. I still like the look of heals.

Description : Do you think Facebook is "so yesterday?"?

Last Answer : It’s not a matter of what I think, it is without question one of the main social networks. That’s not an opinion, that’s a fact.

Description : What are some recent trends in our culture?

Last Answer : Using online social sites as evidence in court…catching cheaters via texts…panicking over viruses

Description : Will Augmented Reality be the next revolution?

Last Answer : This and more. How about virtual conferences “holodeck” style?

Description : What is crowdsourcing?

Last Answer : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing

Description : Would anyone else be more impressed with the drivers of hybrids if their cars looked no different from the non hybrid version?

Last Answer : all cars should look like hybrids. or like this

Description : Is the litter problem getting worse in Britain?

Last Answer : I don't live in Britain so I can't hazard a guess on litter problems there but I would think that they are getting worse in America. Additionally, I believe that problems are worse now than when I ... because I think it is going to get much worse before we find significant ways to make it better.

Description : Can you suggest a book/resources on understanding the life cycle of trends?

Last Answer : Yes, definitely there are. I'm studying this very topic in one of my classes. The class is called the sociology of collective episodes and one part of the class focuses on fads and fashion. It's ... interest you also. It's called Merchants of Cool and you can easily find it in Google videos.

Description : Any fashion trend you are ashamed to admit you embraced?

Last Answer : 2 words: acid wash

Description : In 1,000 years, when the early 21st century is studied, what will they say is the best art that we are currently producing?

Last Answer : Awesome music

Description : What trend or thing of the past makes you feel old?

Last Answer : The thing that makes me feel old is when I say things like: “When I was your age…”