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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
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?
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.
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...
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.
Do me a favor and look up the word "ageism".
Idunno if it counts as ageism when they're talking about stupid behavior among people with minds that are factually, biologically, not finished developing. Same reason it isn't ageist to say "ten year olds are not allowed to drive cars because they aren't smart enough to do it responsibly"
I take it you haven't interacted with many young people since the pandemic
How would we know the average? I dont remember putting my age when signing up
I'm nearly 50, not really sure how it all works. Just glad that I found something other than reddit.
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.
20 is old? Rip me then I must be a skeleton.
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.
The whole Internet is club penguin apparently.
The pool is closed because of AIDS
Wait that was Habbo.
I'm 18, feeling like a fetus in comparison XD
I always somehow assumed it's lower. Around 16 if I had to guess. We need a poll
I'm curious if that's because you think people seem immature or something? I'm in my 40s, and work with people both older and younger than me. I can see comments across Lemmy that I wouldn't find unusual for here, except maybe a stronger leaning towards left leaning politics, privacy, etc.
I've seen a huge amount of immature adults.
people seem immature or something?
It's more about general toxicity and too quick to judge (edit: which I guess counts as immature), but I gotta say it has gotten better, likely due to said users slowly getting banned.
I noticed multiple times that the person I was arguing with was suddenly removed by moderators.
One of the coworkers quickest to get kinda yelly about his opinions at work was a genx guy (older than me) who had very strong "classical liberal" opinions as well as the typical belief that he was being logical, not emotional, as he raised his voice while talking to us about policies he didn't agree with. He also had the typical misogynistic view that he was rational while women were emotional. One time he and I were getting a little heated in a shared discord chat and a mutual friend who was the admin muted both of us.
I told the friend something like "fair, you did try to change the subject and we ignored you, my bad." The older guy got super pissed someone controller his speech and he left the discord forever.
I've also seen my uncle get butthurt that I tried to meditate a discussion between him and my sister (she requested my help because he and my aunt would just both say their side against her and not let them talk.) I mostly just stopped them from interrupting each other and asked them to let the other person speak, and I did it both to my sister and my aunt and uncle.
They later complained about being told what to do in their own house.
While young people can be impulsive and judgy, I find that age does not always fix that. The people it doesn't fix get entitled and think their age justifies their beliefs and that they're automatically wiser than you.
I don't think many people on here are in highschool, I'm in my mid twenties and have always felt on the younger side here.
I think the average age is probably 35 - 40. If you're here, you're here because you want the internet from the late 00s.