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Subject: Re: Off Topic: Poll suggestion: Ages here

Author: Alvaro Rodriguez

Date: 13:31:39 01/26/00

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On January 26, 2000 at 16:16:09, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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.  :)

Yeah, I know it happends but the age shouldn´t make any difference. I have a lot
offriends online, some of them are around 40-50 and we don´t really give the age
an importance, at least not me. You can have a conversation with anyone,
regardless of the age.
But, when you find out they are 12 year olds, do you stop chatting?

Alvaro



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