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31 is not old age, and I hope when I get to 31 I have 20 year old girl friends :) However, in the real world it is hard to socialise with people who are not in
by babul 18y ago
31 is not old age, and I hope when I get to 31 I have 20 year old girl friends :)
However, in the real world it is hard to socialise with people who are not in the same age group as you are for many practical reasons e.g. try going to bars with people who are minors in your group.
Primarily it seems we are indoctrinated by the nature of the societies we live in which seems to teach us it is not good to associate with people much older/younger than you. This seems to be an issue that starts from even the early days of education where the difference is small (in most schools, hanging out with people more than 1 or 2 grades above/below you is often considered weird by the peer groups).
However, online it is more to do with shared interests, ability, and many other factors rather than age. Age does not matter. Cases in point: Who knows the ages of the people we interact with on HN - does it matter? All the startups, in past and present cycles (e.g. soccernet.com, facebook.com) created by very young people - did the users/ buyers/advertisers (most of whom are in different age groups) know or care about this?
- LogicHoleFlaw 18y agoYou know, my dad always threatened that when my mom turned 40 he'd trade her in for two 20-year-olds ;D He later reneged on that one by saying that he'd developed a taste for the classics in his old age. online it is more to do with shared interests, ability, and many other factors rather than age. This hits the nail on the head. Online one's peer group is not dominated by age, but by interest. As an aside, I went to bars with friends of various ages when I was in my late teens. I just claimed to be the son of one of the other members. And it was Wisconsin, so it wasn't checked too closely. (I didn't drink. Still don't.) This may be unusual but I make and keep friends based on merit rather than something as arbitrary was what year one was born in.
- timr 18y ago"31 is not old age, and I hope when I get to 31 I have 20 year old girl friends" I was thinking the same thing. If there's anything creepy about this guy's post, it's that he got married in the middle of college. I suppose that you would feel out-of-touch with 20-something life if you'd been married for over a decade by the time you were 31!
- louismg 18y agoI didn't get married in the middle of college. I got married at 26, well after college.
- timr 18y ago"Alana's Facebook profile says she graduated from high school in 2006, eleven years after I did, and at a point where I'd been married for three years." Bah...my apologies. I parsed the above sentence incorrectly, and somehow read "eleven years after I did" as "eleven years after I was married".