Age groups using boards/ After Hours

TacT · 14-02-2005 02:11PM

Feeling old Gandalf?

gandalf · 14-02-2005 02:19PM

LOL I was feeling old 5 years ago

Now I have paid for my plot and am waiting for the Reaper Man to come

Hey at least I am not the oldest on this thread someone else has owned up to it.

Raphael · 14-02-2005 02:36PM

Just turned 16 two weeks ago. I was 14 when I joined, and back then I think I was one of the youngest people on the whole forums

Goodshape · 14-02-2005 02:44PM

21.

I am the target market.

Sherifu · 14-02-2005 02:52PM

Damn look at all the young 20s
[whinge] why didnt you do asl [/whinge]

ferdi · 14-02-2005 02:56PM

19 - 24

PurpleFistMixer · 14-02-2005 03:36PM

I'm thinking the internet must be becoming a more appealing thing for teenagers to do. Although because I'm 15 my past experiences are kind of void because I was hardly a teenager back when I thought I was the youngest around.

I don't think having ages in profiles is a good thing. People aren't going to take someone with "13" in their profile seriously. Even just knowing that(their age) is going to change how you approach that person in what you say or anything. It's demeaning for the person in question to be treated like a child, even if you think they are one. Is not one of the great virtues of the internet that your physical age isn't the one that matters - it's your mental age?

I'm all for treating people who use txt speak like idiots, though.

Agent Smith · 14-02-2005 03:39PM

was 17 when i first joined, now 19....

koneko · 14-02-2005 03:49PM

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

Is not one of the great virtues of the internet that your physical age isn't the one that matters - it's your mental age?

Unfortunately a fair share of the younger boardsies don't actually contribute anything except blatant spam and "filler".

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 14-02-2005 03:51PM

still, that's no reason to single out the good ones. Treat idiots like idiots because they are idiots, not because they're children.

koneko · 14-02-2005 03:54PM

I'm not disagreeing

I think there's some younger people here that really contribute and you really wouldn't guess they're that young, they just get lumped in with the crappy ones a lot of the time when people find out their age.

segadreamcast · 14-02-2005 03:57PM

So the vast majority of boards users are between 15-30...and are probably male too.

No huge surprises here to be honest!

(For the record - I'm 17)

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 14-02-2005 04:00PM

um

the vast majority of after hours readers....

I'd imagine most of the older, more distringuished boards members wouldn't touch this forum with asok's ten foot pole.

PurpleFistMixer · 14-02-2005 04:02PM

Why would you say they're probably male, NoelRock?
Can girls not be geeks too?

koneko · 14-02-2005 04:05PM

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

Why would you say they're probably male, NoelRock?
Can girls not be geeks too?

Statistics don't lie. There are more guys than gals on the boards, especially certain boards (though AH would have more of them than others).

Bottle_of_Smoke · 14-02-2005 04:48PM

19 year old male... how typical

16 joining , but had a different profile i ditched first i think

CuLT · 14-02-2005 05:22PM

20 in April, joined when I was 15 (does math to make sure).

April 2005 - March 2001 = 15. Excellent.

The Internet should be an ageless, sexless medium if you so choose it to be. You are ageless and sexless unless you specify otherwise. The Internet is not a safe place for children, I think boards.ie does more than it should by censoring swear words already.

If parents want to allow their children to use boards.ie, or the Internet at large, they can supervise them. Otherwise, keep them off.

Tennis · 14-02-2005 06:15PM

I am a depressingly old 24!

Crania · 14-02-2005 06:47PM

I'm a 14 year old male but i would consider myself very mature for my age.

I dont understand all these people who think differently of me just because I'm younger than them. Just because my physical age is younger than most people here does not mean that my mental is also younger.

And I'm also pleading with people my age who are abusing boards.ie and just posting spam to leave boards.ie forvever, you are ruining it for people like me who actully have something meaningful,valid and worthwhile to say.

I'm also asking the twentysomethings to stop treating people my age like we are babies because we are not, we are young adults who are soon going to be leaving home and being thrown into the real world.

And to all those doubters of my capabilities as a boards.ie member, just remember you were once 14 and I'm sure that when you were 14 you didn't appreciate older people ridiculing you

CuLT · 14-02-2005 07:02PM

Mentally and emotionally abusing young people is what secondary school is all about.

"Education" my arse.

Oh, and just as a point of interest, I didn't like it when I was fourteen, but I can now appreciate that it was probably for the best. Or at least I can claim that and use it as an excuse.
Ever watch "Dazed and Confused"?

(btw, it was REALLY hard to avoid replying to the above post with "would you like a woweepop?").

tovalee · 14-02-2005 07:21PM

Tennis wrote:

I am a depressingly old 24!

you just hush! when i lie about my age i say im 26!!!!!

*adele* · 14-02-2005 07:33PM

he he he i would say lol to cuLT's post but unfortunatly it applies to me...

mike65 · 14-02-2005 08:15PM

Mentally and emotionally abusing young people is what secondary school is all about.

"Education" my arse.

Oh, and just as a point of interest, I didn't like it when I was fourteen, but I can now appreciate that it was probably for the best. Or at least I can claim that and use it as an excuse.
Ever watch "Dazed and Confused"?

(btw, it was REALLY hard to avoid replying to the above post with "would you like a woweepop?").

...and all that from a 20 year old! Ha!!

Mike.

Raphael · 14-02-2005 08:15PM

CoolCiaran wrote:

I'm a 14 year old male but i would consider myself very mature for my age.

All 14 year olds do. Now go and play with your lego/action men/barbies

CuLT · 14-02-2005 08:17PM

mike65 wrote:

...and all that from a 20 year old! Ha!!

Mike.

Your powers are weak old man!

Big Ears · 14-02-2005 08:25PM

CoolCiaran wrote:

I'm a 14 year old male but i would consider myself very mature for my age.

I dont understand all these people who think differently of me just because I'm younger than them. Just because my physical age is younger than most people here does not mean that my mental is also younger.

You have the word cool in front of your user name , yet you beleive you're mature .

I tend to find people on boards treat people as of what their mental age is .

'I'm also asking the twentysomethings to stop treating people my age like we are babies because we are not, we are young adults who are soon going to be leaving home and being thrown into the real world'

oh Jesus

[wipes tear from eye , after laughing so much] , you'd swear you were being opressed .

on a final note dont't take anything I said personnaly.....kid .

_sheep · 14-02-2005 08:30PM

20 now, joined a while ago

gandalf · 14-02-2005 08:36PM

Jaysus reading some of this is amusing. I am not giving my exact age away just suffice to say I know some of the people on here for 10 years now :eek:

CuLT · 14-02-2005 08:41PM

I think the boards beer photos do a reasonable job of disclosing it :P

Pyr0 · 14-02-2005 08:53PM

fifteen for me,well fourteen but fifteen in thirteen days YAY!!!!

To many "teens" in the sentence there O_o

Age groups using boards/ After Hours

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