Yeah its weird to think everybody is old here. I am 17 and yall are about as mature as me.
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2025
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One of the more disappointing things about growing up was when I realized that "adult" is an illusion and that all the adults I had looked up to as a kid, were pretty much just big babies doing their best in life while often not really knowing what the fuck they were doing. Cobble that with unresolved issues from childhood that has manifested in stunted growth in different areas and there you go.
We are all kids. The only thing that changes except out bodies, is that we gradually learn to deal with the challenges life throws at us so what is insane at 20 is not so insane at 30 and what is difficult at 30 is not that hard at 40 etc etc.
In some ways, it is a relief to know that there is no end stage. You are a kid for life and you learn for life.
Some other things do change. The brain continues to mature into our 20s, and a lot of people 25+ can start to tell the mental difference between themselves and somebody in their late teens. I personally noticed that I had stronger impulse control after about 25. As well, some of the things that bothered me when younger don't bother me at all now.
Another change is, as you get older you may start to seek stability over excitement. For some people, they also become more rigid in their thoughts and beliefs, unable to keep up with new ideas, and the idea of changing becomes scary.
If I could give advice to young folk, I'd say to actively keep your mind open no matter what age you are. Actively seek to learn new concepts and skills throughout your life. Personally, I like to set at least one big goal to learn every year. Last year, I learned to label every country on a map. The year before that, I learned to solve a Rubix cube. One year I taught myself to read the katakana and hiragana scripts.
Pick something you've always wanted to learn, and keep going at it til you get there. Not only will it help keep your mind flexible, but you'll get to grow in ways that make you into a more interesting person than you were before.
Great advice for all ages.
Actually one thing I remember most from being young is older folks (30s to 60s) always giving me all kinds advice, and it did seem smart but also so not, like, meeting me where I was at, at that age (teens, twenties).
It's not until like my mid-thirties that I started to rediscover some of the advice I'd heard, and see it bear fruit.
Anyway, that's all to say that even if it seems like some kid is ignoring your sage advice, they might just have it on the back-burner until they're ready.
I don't think there's anything wrong with laughing at the same things you thought were funny at age 10, but at the same time the way we process serious ideas should have more depth and reflect more life experience. More "let me think about that" and less "No U!!!"
It should have more depth, but that isn't always the case, haha. We all do it to some extent. There some topics I flat out refuse to discuss with 99% of people because most people can't discuss these things without opting to black and white thinking. Then there are topics I refuse to discuss with people because I fall into black and white thinking and I don't want to put that out into the world. We should definitely hold ourselves to a higher standard, but most of us are emotional beings about something and whatever that something is, will result in very silly behavior if we get in our feelings too much. The number of instances and users I have decided to block for this very reason is probably higher than on any other platform I have ever been on. Sometimes it's because I find them to be the childish ones and other times it's because I feel like I would become the childish one if I engage further.
Lots of good pithy reflections there! Black and white thinking is my absolute top gripe about social media as well, and the reason most discussions just aren't worth participating in. Every issue is filtered into a simplistic comic book or meme frame where there are exactly two diametrically opposed sides, with cackling villains vs noble heroes or underdog victims. Stepping out of the frame to acknowledge real-world subtleties makes you an evil apologist.
I think a disproportionate amount of content comes from people who find social media so much more comfortable than communicating in person, they use it like lab rats wired up to an orgasm button. They're always partly engaging with the subject at hand and partly working out their own issues. Sifting through it all to stay on point (or even find one) can be a challenge.
Black and white thinking is my absolute top gripe about social media as well, and the reason most discussions just aren't worth participating in.
Mm, yeah. This is especially true when communicating between different ideologies, but even within them it can be hard to have a nuanced conversation—like the kind where you might not understand or agree with some point that many in your group don't appear to question.
Like when the TERF thing first started becoming a big deal, I was lucky to have actually feminist friends, trans and otherwise, to walk me through it and suggest some reading. (Not to go all into it, but at the time I was having trouble discriminating which feminist women I should listen to.)
Anyway, that's one of those non black and white convos, which are so hard to have with anyone but actual friends, face-to-face.
Can confirm that I went to see Spaceballs in theatre last month fully expecting to cringe my way through, but in fact ended up laughing my ass off all the way.
A lot of people basically peak in highschool and dont mature much past then. Pretty jarring for people just approaching their 20s who are used to a pretty regular maturity curve in themselves and their peers from ages 0 to 18
Good way to put it. TBH I get the feeling middle schoolers post a hell of a lot more often than older people here.
Y'all are still in your 20s?
Sure, how many twenties we talking though
2?
Same tbh
I figured it was over 30...
I'm pretty sure the average Fediverse user is a 37-year-old male working in tech or IT.
Darn...I fit all of those except the 37 year old part.
37-year-old
36
male
Last time I checked
working
Yep
in tech or IT.
Ah, driving instructor. Cars are tech, though, right?
Close enough!
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upvoting because avatar
Downvoting because Thanos.
i have no idea what you meant there buddy
Thanos values balance over all things. So if someone adds one, Thanos subtracts one.
It's a cheeky character related comment to a general character/fanboy comment.
upvoting because i appreciate yoour effort (you are fanboy thanos here imo)
Fair enough.
I don't believe it, the majority of .ml, -grad, and -bear, have to be about 13yo or my faith in humanity is destroyed.
Yeah look at Lemmy outside of my instance and I really do wonder if these people are adults.
Remind your faith that roughly 75 million Americans, all over 18, voted for Donald Trump twice. Might want to have your faith sit down first.
I am convinced that Lemmy tankies are just in it for the sake of belonging in a group, albeit in a toxic way.
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That might be average age across the user population, but I would guess the average age across the population of posts and comments is significantly lower.
Wait, you mean you're all real???
Brb, I need to apologise to my dealer.
Almost 50. I'm driving up the numbers here.
In my 40s
Feels like the average age is 15 whenever the discussion topic is political.
No, no, there's definitely an at-least college-age level of idiocy going on in political topics.
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We remember what the Internet used to be and naturally gravitate towards that.
Eternal September is real.
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You guys are old. And I say that as someone above 20
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