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[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 hours ago

It’s not over 30? Or on the verge of 40? I see a lotta 40+ memes and sentiments. At least in the communities I frequent.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 4 points 11 hours ago

Ffs, I'm 60 this year

[–] Afflictedlife@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 hours ago

Straight up archeological in this place

[–] TheBannedLemming@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

Is the average age of a social media user really that young? Are very young adults and legally speaking children the driving force behind the base of social media? Are even modestly older individuals not willing to try and engage with this developing type of medium?

[–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 3 points 11 hours ago

I think a lot of older people have jobs and real-life hobbies. When you're a kid trapped in the suburbs with no neighbors to play with, you can't drive, you can't walk to anything, the idea of being terminally online is very appealing. I'm still growing out of it in my 30s

[–] Tired@slrpnk.net 5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Kids and trendy young people are on tiktok and Instagram and do short video clip based social media.

The people who grew up with the internet being a place where you type and read things to be social, are here and places like here.

I think folk just prefer what they know, like if you grew up with loud and bright video clips being the normal way to interact online, you'd probably not want to switch over to reading and typing- which probably also feels like more effort to these people than just performing for a camera.

Same likely goes for us text based social media people but in reverse.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (4 children)

I'm just happy there aren't any, or at least many, teens and kids here. Reading the comments on Reddit, YouTube and anywhere else where they are is a fucking fever dream of stupidity, ignorance and weirdness. It's mostly fine here, and it's a nice break.

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[–] fin@sh.itjust.works 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I remember when I created my first lemmy account on fediverse on lemmy.ml when I was like 15 or 16. 20 years old now, I'm in the elderly group...

[–] Jerb322@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm nearly 50, not really sure how it all works. Just glad that I found something other than reddit.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 points 22 hours ago

This is it. I grew out of reddit too. And it's funny cause when I started using it was around 2012-ish, and everyone was around their 20s/30s with the occasional edgy teen # chan refugee. Yeah we told a lot of the same dumb jokes still circulating now (cause it's more than half bots now), but now every single thread is literally ALL the same exact jokes I saw a decade plus ago, again and again, day after day.

At least this lemme gives a joke a few days to rest before trying to milk that old skinny cow again.

[–] zeca@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago (4 children)

How would we know the average? I dont remember putting my age when signing up

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Typical post broccolitude

[–] meliaesc@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

On the internet, everything is known.

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[–] dingus@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

20 is old? Rip me then I must be a skeleton.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago

I'm 35 and seem to find people older than me on here fairly often. So I don't feel on when I'm on here, until I stand up.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The whole Internet is club penguin apparently.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 18 hours ago

The pool is closed because of AIDS

Wait that was Habbo.

[–] StatisticMaple@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm 18, feeling like a fetus in comparison XD

[–] Event_Horizon@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

You're a fetus harry!

Especially poignant since this meme is 5 years older than you

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 day ago (17 children)

Average here feels like 40+

Even me being 20+, I feel like a kid interrupting adults talking lolz

I read a lot of "back in my day, there weren't smartphones" comments whenever the post talks about technology and smartphones, and I feel so left out. I mean, Smartphones have been a part of most of the life I remember. Can't really remember the world without smartphones.

Idk what I'm doing here, but reddit banned Tor, so I have no where else to anonymously ask weird questions and rant about life.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

back in my day, there weren't smartphones

We of the fabled Oregon Trail Generation had the unique experience of an analog childhood and an adulthood in the digital hellscape we all know and love.

So when we wandered off into the woods for hours, or even once I could borrow a car and head over to a friends' place? Completely unreachable. The only exception was the house phone at a friend's place if we were there.

When I was in college, Wi-Fi was just becoming popular. The equivalent to walking down the sidewalk with your face in your phone was the couple grad student TAs who were busy or nerdy enough to walk between buildings holding their laptop open in front of them. Wi-Fi was not built in of course. It was a PCMCIA card sticking out of the side.

When we were home or in our dorms, we didn't sit on our phones, we sat on our PCs! And now decades later I've transitioned back to sitting on my PC at home and it's great, lol.

My first personal cell phone of any kind was my dad handing me down his old work phone when I finished college and moved a couple hours away. It was a Motorola Startac motherfucker! Look it up and be jealous!

It's funny because I'm only in my mid 40s and have very little gray hair. I don't feel like an old, but I have absolutely hit the point of the "back in my day" attitude. I usually don't actually say anything unless I see a good joke in it, because that would be cliched and obnoxious.

I bet there's something about being the age where you could be a grandparent. There's something pretty damn wholesome about watching people who are young enough to be your children having their own families and careers and stuff. We had our kid about a decade later than we wanted, so I think my son gets to benefit from me being half chill grandpa and not 100% frantic young parent.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Never heard the term Oregon Trail Generation before but immediately knew what it meant. That's a great name.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 1 points 11 hours ago

I agree! I only heard it in recent years which is pretty recent relatively speaking, but it instantly made complete sense.

I think the most recent memory I have of playing it in school (not emulated later or something). I did a search to look for dates, and I found this awesome short article about the creators. The origin story makes the game even better in hindsight.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-you-wound-playing-em-oregon-trailem-computer-class-180959851/

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I was probably older than you are now when you were born. It's been interesting (in the ancient curse sense of the word) to witness firsthand a world without internet slowly becoming online, advancing, then decaying into the corporate-run AI slop hellscape we're seeing today.

[–] oppy1984 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Eh, don't sweat it. I'm 41, and I still find myself feeling the same way when my manager is talking.... and he's younger than me. I've been told you reach a point where you just don't care anymore but my supervisor is 52 with two grown children and says she still gets that feeling from time to time, so who knows how true it is.

Now for the "get off my lawn" portion of the reply. I can remember in 1991 my aunt was working for a legal firm and running documents around for them, they needed instant contact so they paid big bucks to have a mobile phone installed in her car. It cost a ridiculous amount per minute to talk on. One day she was talking me to McDonald's and I asked why she had a phone in her car since she couldn't plug it in, after she explained it to me I asked if I could call my dad, she said yes but make it quick. She dialed his number at work and handed me the phone. When he answered I blurted out "hi dad I'm calling from Aunt Juanita's car! Have to be quick, bye" and before she could stop me I hung up the phone.

She called him back to apologize and let him know everything was ok, then handed the phone to me so my dad could lecture me about phone etiquette and tell me to be good for Aunt Juanita.

Also I remember being excited to get to go to the school library to play Oregon trail on the green screen computer and having to swap out 5 inch floppy disks throughout the game to move to the next part.

Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to take some ibuprofen as all this typing is aggravating my joints. LoL.

[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

5 1/4 inches, you heathen. I'm closing in on 50. I am beginning to understand really old people who just let the young ones talk and don't take their advice. Stuff you're supposed to be doing has changed so much, that it is tempting to just do whatever you've been doing all your life. It'll just change again, so why bother.

[–] oppy1984 1 points 11 hours ago

Forgive me techno father, for I have sinned.

I can see that, I have a few people now who I know aren't going to listen, so I tell them the correct way and then sit back and watch them do something completely different.

[–] rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

I read a lot of “back in my day, there weren’t smartphones” comments whenever the post talks about technology and smartphones, and I feel so left out.

reminder that not everyone is a westerner. my home village only had internet (adsl) like in 2008 or so

[–] Mika@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

Early 30 here. Mobile phones only started being accessible when I was like in 5th year of school, smartphones, like proper ones, android/ios - that was closer to my university days. Before that we had different phones with good displays but controlled by buttons, you could play games on those too, but lot simpler ones.

What I'm trying to say, your gen is about the first one to experience "smartphone was here always" vibe.

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