1: Open floor plans - This is why your kids hate you, they get no privacy, then have zero skills to move out. Older house? those long spans will eventually have problems, new build with i-joists? you can call them what you want, myself and firefighters call them kindling.
2: Cult like followings of food. This is why you people are ROUND
3: Records - Proven time and time again they do not produce better sound. My theory is this generation is so spoiled and bored with life they make their own hardships and FWP's, this is one of those. The only argument that is valid for records is the artwork.
4: People who think buying things other people made or built makes them a creative person. You swiped a credit card, someone else did all the work and had the idea.
5: Suburbanites who think they are "Gangsta" if you use the term "hookers and blow" you are a loser, get back to your fescue lawn it's over 3" tall.
6: Taco Bell lab and workshop inventions being considered "food" They might as well just take a bucket, put everything they have on the menu inside and fire up the kitchenaid and serve it trough style
7: Women and mom's who are welded to their smartphones, no one you are interacting with is that important and either are you. The important people are sitting in your back seat having their brains melted down by the tablet you bought to babysit them.
8: Short term memory people when it comes to a good or bad economy. When the economy gets bad everyone acts like it's never going to get better, when the economy gets good people think there is no possible way the party will stop.
Things I do like that I have read about recently that I wish would become fads
1: Reading stories about kids and teens who start their own business that help other people out and then get supported by the community.
2: old people who have a house like the movie "Up" that defy builders
3: people in their 90's who run record times in the 60 meter dash that would outpace our fat teenagers we produce today.
4: Batboy and what the people of San Fran did for him
5: People who live within their means financially and environmentally and flat out don't care about trying to be a good "Murican" They don't place burdens on other people like allowing their kids to go out at night and vandalize the hood or leave their dogs out barking for hours.
6: People who don't have first world problems, they power through minor things since that is part of life and when something bad does come along like a lay-off they reserve the word "problem" for that.
People are at their best when they face adversity. Today's culture is too spoiled allowing for crappy fads that we don't need. We need a war with aliens from Mars or something.