It is sometimes hard to distinguish the difference between trends and fads. It can be useful to know the difference and to examine what is important to a certain generation. There are people who studie trends and fads, whos jobs are to predict the newest trends and fads.Trends are defined as slowly gainin popularity over a long ammount of time where as fads are things that become popular very quickly and are all the "rage" - they then loose thier popularity as fast as they gained...