Johann Sebastian Staedtler 🇨🇦Jul 6, 2023

Hypothesis: The Fediverse consists almost entirely of adults.

I expect most youths are drawn to the large corporate social networks; but those of us who took the effort to come here have likely experienced the Internet before most of those existed.

Of course, the only way to test this is by collecting data using the most scientifically rigorous method available to me: a Mastodon poll, lol

(I expect this will only reach English-speaking Fedi, but do boost if you're able)

⬇️ What is your age? ⬇️

Less than 18 years old
2.2%
18 to 27 years old
17.3%
28 to 39 years old
35.1%
40 or more years old
45.4%
Poll ended at .
Show threadJohann Sebastian Staedtler 🇨🇦Jul 6, 2023

Regarding the choice of age ranges: my first intention is to separate adults from not-adults, so I picked age 18 as the threshold.

But beyond that, I'm kind of interested in the generational demographics. Gen Z is roughly as old as age 27, after which are Millenials. And the divide between them and Gen X is somewhere in the early 40s, but for simplicity I'm just using 40 as the cut-off.

If I could have more than four poll options, I would have been much more deliberate and precise, but shrug

Show threadhesirJul 6, 2023
@jsstaedtler I'm 54, my mother was born in 1928 (I think some of the Earp's were still alive), she had me late, I'm the youngest of eight. She, I guess, was one of "the (I originally wrote "Lost" but meant) Silent Generation", so as her child, not sure what that makes me... are these "gens" based on the gen that birthed you or just the period you lived through.... There's nuance in all that I guess... 🤔
Show threadKo Simon toku ingoa Jul 6, 2023

@hesir @jsstaedtler Gen are based on when you were born (these dates will move a little depending on who you ask).

“Lost Generation”: Born 1883-1900
“Greatest Generation”: Born 1901-1924.
“Silent Generation”: Born 1925-1945.
“Baby Boomers”: Born 1946-1964.
“Generation X”: Born 1965-1980.
“Generation Y” or “Millennials”: Born 1981-1996.
“Generation Z”: Born 1997-2012.
“Generation Alpha”: Born 2013-2025.

Show threadhesirJul 6, 2023
@SimonCHulse @jsstaedtler ...still, seems counter-intuitive that there's an entire generation between me and my mother.
Show threadBrian WatsonJul 7, 2023
@hesir @SimonCHulse @jsstaedtler it seems counter intuitive to me that my parents (early '46) and I ('66) are almost in the same generation.
Show threadFrank Inserra
@hesir @jsstaedtler @SimonCHulse @GreatBlueHeron This is why the people who lengthen the Boom period from 62, then to 64, then to even 66, have it wrong. I always regarded the Boom, of which I am a part, to most characteristically reflect the offspring of those who served in WWII (and perhaps early offspring of those who served in the the Korean conflict) -- firm end at 60, maybe 62. In short, the Baby Boom that resulted from the end of the war and return of the troops. Even among the Boomers, I feel a distinct break between the early Boomers (think civil rights, anti-war, Haight-Ashbury, and The Strawberry Statement) and the late Boomers (think Watergate, Dazed and Confused, disco, cults, yuppies).
Jul 7, 2023 at 6:49pmWeb
Show threadKo Simon toku ingoa Jul 7, 2023
@finserra @hesir @jsstaedtler @GreatBlueHeron my parents (born in 62 and 63, respectively, were children of Dads who served in the war. They were just young boomers.