what age group do you think makes up most of saidit's userbase?

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[–]medium_tomato 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I actually feel like it might skew older than reddit at this point, 26-40 maybe. Just because of the big migration and us older people remember the wild west internet days and value free speech and good discussion. People in the 18-25 category are much more okay with no privacy, and blatant censorship. I started on reddit when I was 18, and am now nearly 30. Sadly there is a huge difference in 18 year old users today vs before.

Edit: just wanted to say that I am not looking down on the younger generation. Just sad for them that they were raised in the "real name" era of internet and their parents monitoring content. Of course plenty of the young people still value those things.

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People in the 18-25 category are much more okay with no privacy, and blatant censorship.

absolutely, it's mind boggling to me how some people are like this. it upsets me knowing how people near my age are following this behavior too. i'm in the 13-19 category and i see people my age be ignorant like this all the time. i'm happy websites like saidit exist and i hope more people in my age group join it.

[–]medium_tomato 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Sadly your parents generation (genx-older millennials) kind of failed you on that front. My gen has had the "don't give out personal info online" drilled into us since a young age. When Facebook became more mainstream I was appalled and confused at people openly using their first and last names on it, saying their city, school or work. It got even weirder when FB actually started requiring your real name vs made up names or whatever some years back. I have hope that the younger gen finally gets sick of everyone's policing, doxxing and getting fired and even college admissions being taken away just because of social media. Maybe we can all slowly turn it around..

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

yeah, unfortunately no matter what i do to try to explain the importance of privacy to my parents, they think i'm delusional and ignore my requests not to post pictures of me online. they tell me that social media companies spying is fake and that they have nothing to hide and nothing to fear. but when they eventually realize that posting a picture of every stage of your child's life is a mistake, they won't be able to do anything about it. it seems that my generation is doing the same. kids that aren't even 12 have instagram pages and post pictures of themselves without knowing the consequences, simply because their parents do the same. i truly hope we can turn this around, we'll end up in a world where everyone publishes everything about themself if we don't.

[–]Britain 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Same here, I’m in that 13-19 category and all my friends are pro censorship

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

yeah, it sucks people our age have to think that way

[–]dissent 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is what I feel also. I believe the avg age here will be slightly older and it's people who won't put up with shit anymore