I gleefully ignore pop culture and new TV shows; I stopped listening to country music in the '80s because it was becoming un-country; am gladly clueless about Twitter and the rest of social media.
It's kinda sad that whenever I go anywhere, everybody looks so young; my doctor is my nephew's age. And I've had several friends who died, although they were mostly quite a bit older than me.
I've posed this question to my peers and nobody seems to know the answer: Why do young people talk so (too) fast? Where did they learn to do this? I mostly can't understand them; do they really understand each other? When I was young we used a lot of new words that my parents were not familiar with, but nobody ever said that we were talking too fast.
An interesting twist to all this: I bought my first computer in 1992. I learned DOS commands out of necessity. I learned HTML coding (websites) in the '90s just for the challenge, and I learned a fair amount about computers in general. And the funny thing is, I've run into people much younger than me in the past 10-15 years online, who know less about all that than I do.
It's old technology but a lot of that stuff is still done, but it's done automatically behind the scenes by computers/programs themselves. So it's still relevant, but not something the average computer user needs to know today. Ah, youthful vigor! I sure had it, but boy is it gone. I still like to read a lot, but learning (or doing) new things? -- nah, I'm too mentally tired.
