Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:16:21 01/26/00
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On January 26, 2000 at 16:31:39, Alvaro Rodriguez wrote: >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 Not because they are 12. I usually find out they are twelve when they start acting like twerps. First giveaway is usually a burst of lots of profanity, things they can't say at home, but can say over the net....
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