Does Posters age matter? (how much, to live, real estate, daughter)

[momof2dfw]

I have a few questions for all of you that are thinking about moving and have moved. It has to do w/ the people that post on C-D and how much credit you give them.

1. Would their age matter?
Say your looking to move to a place you have never been and you post to get info. Would you weigh in each persons own length of being there? Their age? Like a person in high school that has lived in the city your looking at for a few months? Would you take them seriously?

2. Length of time in city/area?
If the posters responding to you have only been in the area a few months (less than a year) would it matter and would you want to know? If they were just traveling thru would you want to know that if they gave a bad/good comment about the place?

3. Size of area:
Say it is a HUGE metro area your looking at and the poster may have only traveled thru in a days time or only lived there a few months? Again, say a high school kid that attends school most days and only sees other parts of this huge city/metro area while riding in the car w/ parents? How much experience could they REALLY have in commute times, for example? How much time could they REALLY have spent in other areas of the place? Or they work full time and don't venture much past their little bubble?

Are these things that you would WANT to know about the posters responding to your questions? Just curious as we had this happen recently and one teen got upset when we said something that in their short length of time in our city they could hardly know THAT much. I personally would WANT to know this info so that I could weigh it accordingly. How do you feel?

[Marylandkitten]

Everything is relevant... take that "drama on myspace" thread that started last week... as soon as I heard she was 16 ~ I went back to my settings and about my own business. The younger they are the harder it is to hold a comprehensible conversation with imo.

Age can make a big difference, take the prenup lady in the relationship thread. If a female is wanting outside opinions on her soon to be husband's rather forceful demands to sign a prenump, wouldn't it make a difference knowing she just turned 19, and he's 40? (for example) or rather they were both late 30s? Everything is relevant, age factors in a lot, when you start balancing experience with that.

*whistles the Leave it to Beaver song and walks away*

[940]

Hi Mom....I totally think it matters and I take that into account when I know the poster's age. There's a few on these boards that I can't always take seriously because they're posting in between doing school homework or between 5th and 6th period! Kidding..but it sometimes seems like that...

You always have good information for our area/region and I know that's because you have the life experiences that allow you to contribute and comment on a variety of things that people want and need to hear. I honestly put more weight on that than someone that comments like they know it all when they really only know what they've read or seen on the internet...or what their parents have told them.

[jeannie216]

Originally Posted by 940

There's a few on these boards that I can't always take seriously because they're posting in between doing school homework or between 5th and 6th period! Kidding..but it sometimes seems like that...

Darn Tim, your on to me!

[ontheroad]

To some degree it does mean something, but how do we know how old a poster is, or how long they've lived in an area. It takes time to know a member, and often even then, there is much left unsaid.

But a great question to ponder!

[940]

Originally Posted by ontheroad

To some degree it does mean something, but how do we know how old a poster is, or how long they've lived in an area. It takes time to know a member, and often even then, there is much left unsaid.

But a great question to ponder!

A few of the ones that I'm thinking about have actually commented about still being in high school...or being 15! After awhile, you can read through the blanket generalizations or see that the information posted is always so wrong and/or mean-spirited especially when they've never even visited a certain state or city.

[momof2dfw]

Originally Posted by 940

Hi Mom....I totally think it matters and I take that into account when I know the poster's age. There's a few on these boards that I can't always take seriously because they're posting in between doing school homework or between 5th and 6th period! Kidding..but it sometimes seems like that...

You always have good information for our area/region and I know that's because you have the life experiences that allow you to contribute and comment on a variety of things that people want and need to hear. I honestly put more weight on that than someone that comments like they know it all when they really only know what they've read or seen on the internet...or what their parents have told them.

Thanks. You probably know who I'm referring to and there are a few others. Even the other day there was a poster that I refer to as a "drive-by poster" as they come along and post one inflammatory post putting everything down and then disappearing. The particular one the other day had such horrible grammar (and I will admit to my own mistakes ) it was HORRIBLE. They kept using the word "dat". How much credibility can that be given [MOD CUT] While the students point of view may be good for some things I can't see it being much help at all to those looking to move to an area and needing accurate commute times, varies school districts info, accurate real estate info, etc.

Oh myspace............ geez. When the poster I am referring to above was throwing around crap the other day was right at the same time we were dealing w/ a so-called "friend" of our childs and her comments on myspace. Talk about FILTH!!! What she wrote back to ME was PURE FILTH. All I did was post on my daughters site that we, her parents, were reading everything and the language unacceptable. What she responded w/ was enough to make me want to slap my own child into next year if SHE would have said such. Think of EVERY SINGLE cuss word in the American language and she used it. This is why I believe that there is a time and a place for these kids to be on the internet and all day and night is NOT acceptable.

[momof2dfw]

Originally Posted by 940

A few of the ones that I'm thinking about have actually commented about still being in high school...or being 15! After awhile, you can read through the blanket generalizations or see that the information posted is always so wrong and/or mean-spirited especially when they've never even visited a certain state or city.

Correct. Then they go on to say they have finally left the area after "serving" x amount of months. Months NOT years. To me I want ACCURATE info from responsible adults if I'm looking to up and move my family to a new area. But don't dare "rat them out" about their age or they get p.o'd. I was just trying to make sure the OP knew that the poster was an underage minor that only lived in a different part of the LARGE METRO area a few months. To me, THAT is valuable info to be able to put it all into perspective.

[121804]

Originally Posted by momof2dfw

I have a few questions for all of you that are thinking about moving and have moved. It has to do w/ the people that post on C-D and how much credit you give them.

1. Would their age matter?


2. Length of time in city/area?

3. Size of area:

1. Yes, definitely. Due to circumstances, we had to move to SWFL for some time. The city we lived in was about 75% retirees or older. We are a younger family with a 2yr old. We had a short move time & shorter time to find a place to live. We got in touch with a realtor who was our age & had kids. She told us straight up what to expect & she was dead honest.
If someone asks me "I am 18 & want to move to Fort Myers, FL" I would tell them that was a horrible decision. If someone asked me "I am 62 & want to retire to Fort Myers" I'd say go for it; you'll find many your age with your interests,etc

2. Yes. I lived in San Diego for 6 months. That does not make me a subject matter expert on the place b/c that was barely any time to even get established. I was born & raised in NE OH & back again...now a little or more about the place.

3. Yes, again. If someone is moving from LA to some small town in Arkansas don't know why they'd ask someone in LA what that town in Arkansas was like.

[940]

Originally Posted by momof2dfw

Oh myspace............ geez. When the poster I am referring to above was throwing around crap the other day was right at the same time we were dealing w/ a so-called "friend" of our childs and her comments on myspace. Talk about FILTH!!! What she wrote back to ME was PURE FILTH. All I did was post on my daughters site that we, her parents, were reading everything and the language unacceptable. What she responded w/ was enough to make me want to slap my own child into next year if SHE would have said such. Think of EVERY SINGLE cuss word in the American language and she used it. This is why I believe that there is a time and a place for these kids to be on the internet and all day and night is NOT acceptable.

My father made the mistake of getting onto my niece's (his grand daughter..duh..lol) MySpace site and he nearly flipped out...pics of drunk teenagers at parties were posted on there and he said the language was worse than anything he ever remembered hearing while in the Air Force or in Viet Nam with his buddies...and this was from the girls on that site...