What is one socially accepted norm of today that would freak out a person from 1998?

Honestly, the biggest one has to be how we just casually record strangers in public for social media content. Back in the late 90s, if you pointed a camera at someone random on the street, they’d probably think you were a total weirdo or a paparazzi. Now, people act like it’s perfectly normal to film their surroundings or random passersby for a quick clip, and nobody bats an eye unless things get really intrusive. The whole idea of living your life for a screen would have seemed super dystopian back then.

Then there's the whole remote work thing. If you told someone in the 90s that you could just sit at home in your pajamas and get your actual job done over a video call, they’d say you were dreaming. We used to think that to work, you had to physically drag yourself to an office and sit at a desk for eight hours straight. The fact that we now prioritize flexibility over just sitting in a cubicle is a massive shift that would've blown my mind back when I was a kid.

Also, the way we handle privacy with apps and smart devices is just wild. Back in the day, we were super paranoid about giving out our home address or phone number to anyone we didn't know. Now, people basically broadcast their entire daily routine, real-time location, and what they ate for lunch on their stories. A person from the 90s would probably look at our phones and think we were all voluntarily tracking ourselves for some secret agency.