TheImpressiveXOn the Internet, what is a dead giveaway that someone is actually a kid?
RampsquatchNice try little Timmy, but I won’t be telling you how to pass as an adult.
Because you are a kid and you don’t know but are pretending to be an adult. Nice try!
u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)That’s what a kid pretending to be an adult would say.
When I was your age, no kids did that, 'cause we had no damn internets back then. We had to actually walk outside to talk with others.
乇ㄥ乇¢ㄒ尺ㄖTell me more about this “outside”. Can I get it on Amazon?
Everyone knows you hop on another kid’s shoulders and put on a trenchcoat, fedora, and sunglasses and gave the name Robert Businessman.
Very confidently wrong, poor reading comprehension, poor grammar, limited vocabulary, emoji gore, catch phrase/pop culture quotes/talking points repeated with no comprehension of what they’re saying, clearly not aware of how many things in life work, religious regurgitation while being surprised everyone doesn’t agree with them. Very easily impressed with basic factual statements, clearly thinking confidence is the main thing that makes someone correct. Thinks their mom telling they they are handsome is a valid point. Idk, that’s all I got.
Huh
Hexbear is an 8/10 on this scale
Depending on what you meant by “very easily impressed with basic factual statements” it could go either way. I’m an adult and I’m happy to admit I don’t know a lot things, sometimes I’ve been stunned that what I believed was totally wrong and all it took was some to give me a basic fact to make me realise.
verity_kindleHappy Cake Day!
+1
Ever since I was a wee flipflop I always liked to learn from my friends (and yes I was that gullible naive friend) but now even in my 20s it’s still fun to learn outside a classroom. I don’t have to worry about my terrible memory not keeping all the info, if it sticks it sticks
Fun fact: Australia is wider than the diameter of the moon.
Ankther fun fact! The Netherlands is smaller than all of Europe combined!
Bonus: can also be applied to boomers.
seaQueueBoomers are just decrepit toddlers at this point anyway
Could be a new gameshow: Boomer or Toddler
“Know why the call them baby boomers? Because all it takes is one little prick to their egos and boom! You’ve gotta baby!”
By these standards, most of my adult relatives are actually children.
It’s like I tell my kids, an adult is just a child who got old. It’s also why a lot of cultures have a concept of adulthood that has nothing to do with reaching sexual maturity alone.
very confidently wrong
Lmao dude that’s just people in general especially on forums
Got one
What I wrote – Very easily impressed with basic factual statements
What you think it means – there’s something wrong with people who are learning new things.
Does ‘‘basic factual statements’’ mean ‘‘new information that someone is just now learning’’. Can it also apply to information they already know, or believe is true? Can it also be referring to basic knowledge nearly everyone knows?
Does ‘being very easily impressed’ include a situation where someone reacts to information in a typical fashion? Does it exclude adults learning or recognizing factual information and responding with a simple agreement, such as ‘yeah that’s true’? Or is this an indication that an overreacting response is the dead giveaway?
Did the sentance make a claim something is wrong with being a child?
Did the sentence claim that learning new information is likewise something wrong.
Please write one 5 sentance paragraph explaining you’re opinion on the above two numbered questions. Proofreading will not necessary.
Jfc no thanks bye dude
DumbAceDragonSo every boomer on facebook. Got it.
DessertStormsThis is like reading a reverse horoscope - you’ve just thrown as many negative traits as you could think of at the wall, knowing at least a few will stick.
Nothing on your list couldn’t also apply to an adult, especially those most privileged and entitled in society.
Those first two…and a couple others, also apply to a lot of adults I have had political conversations with the past several years…
TetragradeI think you’re handsome too, reader. Don’t listen to the haters.
Poor grammar/orthography
What do birds have to do with anything?
InfynisNice try, kid
Dunno, better call in an etymologist to study what bugs the birds are eating.
JoeBigelow“Ahh no see, you wanted entomology man, which coincidentally means study of bugs”
What about the study of Ents?
Looks up
Everything!
Puts on foil hat
You made a perfect example of the original question there. Emoting in italics like an old geeky chat. I’d bet you’re no younger than 35.
How do you do, fellow geriatrics?
This doesn’t seem to hold true for native English speakers. The number of old white North Americans on Facebook who haven’t figured out punctuation, capitalization, or things like their/there/they’re is astounding.
kurcatoviumRest assured it’s not just US problem. The same happens in other languages too and it may be even worse there.
As many as 16% of US adults may be considered functionality illiterate in English. A further 26% have serious difficulty gaining understanding from what they read in English. From a department of education study.
Not sure if it’s the case anymore, but strong opinions were matched with EQUALLY STRONG STYLISTIC CHOICE!!!, often coupled with poor grammar/spelling, and a tendency to lean more towards rehashing the same opinion rather than making a rational argument.
retrospectologyI dunno, I get this as much from old people too.
Could it be more of a “new to the internet”-thing, maybe?
Maybe it was at a certain time, but how many people are realistically getting introduced to the Internet as an adult at this point in developed countries.
LainTrainWriting in short form where a lengthier reply would work better and when confronted with such a reply some form of “not reading all that” or other thought terminating clichés.
I’ve found that as arbitrary as it is - the ability to read a lot of information works pretty well as a mark of mental maturity. Also links to Twitter or Tiktok as discussion points. No one over the age of 19 browses TikTok lol.
Writing in short form where a lengthier reply would work better and when confronted with such a reply some form of “not reading all that” or other thought terminating clichés.
Ouch, I think I’m a kid in my 30s
To take it to a logical extreme, it frustrates me when a post that considers both (or more) views and is a well thought out post, is met with a single world reply - as if it’s some sort of “gotcha” or the fact that a single ambiguity in a largely solid argument somehow usurps the entire point.
I tend to think they’re either young or generally underexposed to how human interaction works.
Agreed, it can be very frustrating - and is often used for that very purpose, to let the person know they just wasted x amount of time to compose a message no one is going to even read let alone take seriously. But I do not think this is really a good indicator for someone being a child, it’s just intentional insult.
I tend to think they’re either young or generally underexposed to how human interaction works.
There’s a lot of us who are not very great at communications for various reasons. I personally might just lose interest in conversation and can’t get myself to put in the effort to actually contribute value to it and just phase out, and same happens online in a way. As fucking annoying it might be for the person I’m conversing with, it’s not intentional nor meant to insult
This is Reddit in a nutshell.
I’m almost 40 and I use TikTok every day. It’s literally amazing and I’m always surprised by how many people mock it while using hot garbage like yt shorts or ig
I don’t use any of these and have no problems as a result. The only acceptable usage of YouTube is with Sponsorblock, ublock, DeArrow and watch history (and all personalization by extent) off, exclusively through the subscription box as a mumbling talking box to fall asleep to or have on as noise in the background.
not reading all that…tldr?
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One of my coworkers is 43 and he’s on tiktok every day. The olds have come for the kids platform just like they/we always do.
their and your instead of theyre and youre
What about their?
^WHAT HAVE THEY DONE WITH THEIR!?^
Too much emotion in their writing. Personal attacks. Doubling down in the reply. Support for the Chinese Communist Party.
Lol, comment removed. It ended with, “…support for the Chinese Communist party” as a way of finding out someone is a child.
Which was then removed in a, dare I say, childish act of moderation.
(Which is fine, the folks at .ml are welcome to censor as they see fit, of course, and I’m sure this comment isn’t long for this world.)
GulbuddinHekmatyarWell, you could count redditor-esque petty opinions as part of that,
That, and using pepe the frog as a PFP… as childish…
Dude, fuck these tankie mods. Childish af.
Support for the Chinese Communist Party.
Imagine thinking everyone in China is 15yo. It says a lot of you.