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How old are you? To be a bit blunt — things have changed significantly since those of us in our (late?) 30s and up grew up dialing into BBS Compuserve AOL.

NikolaNovak 3y ago
That's part of the issue and why I try not to fool myself that I'm more technically literate and cool / aware dad, than my dad was.i may work in IT but a teenager's experience of online world is a perplexing mystery to me. They use different social media very differently than I did / do. Their online and offline peers and circles are strange to me. Not that they're bad! I just recognize I don't grok their world. I met my spouse online and a lot of my generation did. I too met a lot of friends online first. But the exploits and weirdness and threat vectors on the interwebs today is just very different.
- yumraj 3y ago
  > I met my spouse online and a lot of my generation did. I too met a lot of friends online first. At what age though? Were you 18+ or younger?
  - atq2119 3y ago
    I met some people through game modding forums and mailing lists at 17. I think I started participating when I was 15.
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  - NikolaNovak 3y ago
    Fwiw and as requested :) Re friends - In late 90s and early 2000s I was in my late teens and early 20s. I was on the interwebs since age 15 or 16 in ~1995 Re spouse, age 27 in 2006 on Lavalife. There were a lot of creeps on dating sites then, but not nearly as many professional scammers as today.
yumraj 3y ago
It’s ironic that you’re asking me my age and calling me, indirectly, a dinosaur, but used a brand new potentially throwaway account. :) I guess some of us do value our privacy and want to impart that to our kids.
- oppositesexact 3y ago
  No, I’m saying you may be younger if you think it’s “safe” to let your kids bop around the internet without oversight.
  - yumraj 3y ago
    Ah ok, got it. Sorry, I realized your comment was not for me. I’m old-er :D

NikolaNovak 3y ago

That's part of the issue and why I try not to fool myself that I'm more technically literate and cool / aware dad, than my dad was.i may work in IT but a teenager's experience of online world is a perplexing mystery to me. They use different social media very differently than I did / do. Their online and offline peers and circles are strange to me. Not that they're bad! I just recognize I don't grok their world. I met my spouse online and a lot of my generation did. I too met a lot of friends online first. But the exploits and weirdness and threat vectors on the interwebs today is just very different.

yumraj 3y ago
> I met my spouse online and a lot of my generation did. I too met a lot of friends online first. At what age though? Were you 18+ or younger?
- atq2119 3y ago
  I met some people through game modding forums and mailing lists at 17. I think I started participating when I was 15.
- deleted 3y ago
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- NikolaNovak 3y ago
  Fwiw and as requested :) Re friends - In late 90s and early 2000s I was in my late teens and early 20s. I was on the interwebs since age 15 or 16 in ~1995 Re spouse, age 27 in 2006 on Lavalife. There were a lot of creeps on dating sites then, but not nearly as many professional scammers as today.

yumraj 3y ago

It’s ironic that you’re asking me my age and calling me, indirectly, a dinosaur, but used a brand new potentially throwaway account. :) I guess some of us do value our privacy and want to impart that to our kids.

oppositesexact 3y ago
No, I’m saying you may be younger if you think it’s “safe” to let your kids bop around the internet without oversight.
- yumraj 3y ago
  Ah ok, got it. Sorry, I realized your comment was not for me. I’m old-er :D