Author: Albert Silver
Date: 07:46:45 01/28/00
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On January 26, 2000 at 21:59:09, Michael Cummings 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. :)
>
>I was blown away last year when I heard Sean was a young kid, the way he talks
>he sounds very much older.
>
>When this kid grows up, it will be a worry
Not necessarily. He must be going through a lot of problems and at that age you
tend to externalize this in a very straightforward manner. Life at home must be
a pretty sad place for him to spend it posting the outrageous things he does. He
is intelligent enough to pass for someone older, so perhaps maturity will help
mellow him if he tries hard enough.
Albert Silver
"Man (...) at the beginning is nothing. Only later will he be anything, and that
will be what he makes of himself."
Jean Paul Sartre
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