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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