Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:16:09 01/26/00
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On January 26, 2000 at 15:36:32, Alvaro Rodriguez wrote: >On January 26, 2000 at 13:49:04, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On January 26, 2000 at 13:08:18, Bo Persson wrote: >> >>>On January 26, 2000 at 07:58:44, Tina Long wrote: >>> >>>>Hi guys, >>>>I've just been reading the election threads, and there seems to be a general >>>>presumption that the members here are young adults, or adults. >>>> >>>>eg "look after your own affairs" "learn to deal with it". >>>> >>>>That's fine by me by the way. >>>> >>>>Meanwhile, if this place was here when I was 12 years old I'd be reading every >>>>post. >>>> >>> >>>Sometimes it's good not to know! A couple of year ago I had a long discussion on >>>a C programming list, where it turned out that the other two guys were 12 years >>>old (at least that what they said to each other "... I'm 12 too"). >>> >>>Very surprising to me, 30 years older at the time. >>> >>> >>>Bo Persson >>>bop@malmo.mail.telia.com >> >> >>this is a common problem... young kids like to pretend to be adults, and they >>can pull it off convincingly sometimes, due to the anonymous nature of internet >>communication. It eventually shows up however, if you watch how they write, >>how they react, etc. :) > >I´m only 17 but I haven´t caused any problems yet. Well maybe because I don´t >post often, maybe some posts per week :-) >I will continue to post few messages because maybe I offend someone.. :-) > >Alvaro Your age group isn't the biggest problem. We have a lot of _very_ bright 12-year-olds on the internet. You would not believe they are 12-year-olds by talking to them off and on, until you realize what is going on. It happens _all_ the time on ICC for example. :)
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