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What Age Group Are You In?

20-25 (or younger)

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31-35

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36-40

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41-45

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46-50

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Total Votes : 181

Cheiny

Tue, Dec 31 2024, 12:43 pm

I’ve noticed in some threads, people will remark, “You must be very young,” or “You must be a newlywed.”

Do you think you can usually tell when someone is younger based on their possibly limited knowledge on certain topics, or younger/older based on their particular perspectives on issues?

Raizle ↓

Tue, Dec 31 2024, 1:51 pm

While there have been surprises before, I can tell youth from writing style, maturity levels shown, types of questions asked and yes perspectives too.

Chayalle

Tue, Dec 31 2024, 1:55 pm

Sometimes yes, sometimes no.
And sometimes an anonymous poster writes that she is not young, etc....and I think "this is the internet after all".

small bean

Tue, Dec 31 2024, 1:58 pm

I typically think everyone's my age and I'm like 18. ( married for 18 years but still just graduating high school)

Goody2shoes

Tue, Dec 31 2024, 2:07 pm

Raizle wrote:

While there have been surprises before, I can tell youth from writing style, maturity levels shown, types of questions asked and yes perspectives too.

Age can improve maturity levels and age generally comes with greater intelligence, but that's not the only factor. Life's circumstances plays a huge role as well. It's not always youth that makes people ask or write certain things, I believe it's naivete, people who lived through stuff would never ask or write certain things.
I don't jump to call people young based on annoying things they share, I just hope they never lose that naivete they have.

Brit in Israel

Tue, Dec 31 2024, 2:08 pm

I think it's what you have been through in life rather than age.

↑ Raizle ↓

Tue, Dec 31 2024, 2:41 pm

Goody2shoes wrote:

True.
Still, most people who are older have had more life experience. I think we are more likely to mistake a young person as older then an older person as younger for that reason.
Say, a young person who's been through stuff in life that has matured then earlier.

↑ Raizle

Tue, Dec 31 2024, 2:45 pm

Brit in Israel wrote:

I think it's what you have been through in life rather than age.

Yes but like I wrote just now above, older people have been through more then most young people simply by virtue of having lived longer.
So yes while you have younger people who have been through a lot you are less likely to have older people who have the same life experience as your typical 25 year old.

So if I read a post that sounds like the writer hasn't had much life experience at all, chances are, they are closer to 20 then 50

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