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Rampsquatch ,

Nice try little Timmy, but I won’t be telling you how to pass as an adult.

frazw ,

Because you are a kid and you don’t know but are pretending to be an adult. Nice try!

user224 ,
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

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.

electro1 ,
@electro1@infosec.pub avatar

And now you’re here, arguing with kids, because you’re also a kid… Nice try.

Freefall ,

Tell me more about this “outside”. Can I get it on Amazon?

user224 ,
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Yep: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09C937K7Y

SeaJ ,

Everyone knows you hop on another kid’s shoulders and put on a trenchcoat, fedora, and sunglasses and gave the name Robert Businessman.

Snowclone ,

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.

solarvector ,

Huh

Hexbear is an 8/10 on this scale

Afghaniscran ,

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_kindle ,

Happy Cake Day!

FlihpFlorp ,

+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

noli ,

Fun fact: Australia is wider than the diameter of the moon.

BudgetBandit ,

Ankther fun fact! The Netherlands is smaller than all of Europe combined!

Tja ,

I’m an adult

🧐

Beardwin ,

Bonus: can also be applied to boomers.

seaQueue ,
@seaQueue@lemmy.world avatar

Boomers are just decrepit toddlers at this point anyway

schema ,

Could be a new gameshow: Boomer or Toddler

bolexforsoup ,

“Know why the call them baby boomers? Because all it takes is one little prick to their egos and boom! You’ve gotta baby!”

logicbomb ,

By these standards, most of my adult relatives are actually children.

Snowclone ,

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.

bolexforsoup ,

very confidently wrong

Lmao dude that’s just people in general especially on forums

There’s also nothing wrong with people learning new info, no matter how simple it may seem. That’s kind of a pretentious/egotistical way to operate.

Most of this list is actually pretty garbage. Emojis? Using slang/catch phrases? This is basic social stuff these days.

spikespaz ,

You😆are🤓🤣wrong🤬😡! 💯💯👁️🍑👁️

Kusimulkku ,

Got one

Snowclone , (edited )

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?

  1. Did the sentance make a claim something is wrong with being a child?
  2. Did the sentence claim that learning new information is likewise something wrong?

Please write one 5 sentance paragraph explaining your opinion on the above two numbered questions. Proofreading will not be necessary.

bolexforsoup ,

Jfc no thanks bye dude

DumbAceDragon ,
@DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works avatar

So every boomer on facebook. Got it.

DessertStorms ,
@DessertStorms@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

This 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.

Freefall ,

Those first two…and a couple others, also apply to a lot of adults I have had political conversations with the past several years…

KazuchijouNo ,

Poor grammar/orthography

clutch ,

What do birds have to do with anything?

Infynis ,
@Infynis@midwest.social avatar

Nice try, kid

tigeruppercut ,

Dunno, better call in an etymologist to study what bugs the birds are eating.

JoeBigelow ,
@JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca avatar

“Ahh no see, you wanted entomology man, which coincidentally means study of bugs”

Freefall ,

What about the study of Ents?

thefartographer ,

Looks up

Everything!

Puts on foil hat

MutilationWave ,

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.

thefartographer ,

How do you do, fellow geriatrics?

otp ,

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.

kurcatovium ,

Rest assured it’s not just US problem. The same happens in other languages too and it may be even worse there.

MutilationWave ,

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.

Essentially a third of the country can’t read much beyond the cat in the hat, if even that.

neidu2 , (edited )

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 for it.

retrospectology ,
@retrospectology@lemmy.world avatar

I dunno, I get this as much from old people too. I think it’s less an indicator of age and more an indication of people who aren’t great at thinking.

neidu2 ,

Could it be more of a “new to the internet”-thing, maybe?

MutilationWave ,

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.

Kuori ,
@Kuori@hexbear.net avatar

sounds indistinguishable from talking to right-wingers tbh

roux ,
@roux@hexbear.net avatar

Similar mental capacity probs.

Castor_Troy ,

Was gonna say, that just sounds like some boomers I know.

communism ,
@communism@lemmy.ml avatar

I don’t think there is a “dead giveaway”. Plenty of kids can pass as adults online and plenty of adults seem like kids online. And sometimes with stuff like word usage/grammar/etc you can’t tell if it’s a child or someone who doesn’t speak English very well or maybe an English-speaking adult who happens to type like that. There’s a lot of different people in the world.

morrowind ,
@morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

Yeah seriously, every time someone makes a generalization online “that subreddit is all 12 year olds anyway”, “r/teenagers is mainly grown me”, it really bothers me because no, you’re just overconfident in estimating people’s ages from text

D1G1T4l_B4TH ,

frfr m8

MaggiWuerze ,
@MaggiWuerze@feddit.org avatar

No cap

frostysauce ,

Bet.

Badabinski ,

I imagine that part of it comes down to motivation. I pretended to be an adult on a special-interest forum when I was twelve years old because I needed an escape from my miserable existence. At that time, I had no control over my life and every morning I woke up meant I had a new chance for traumatic shit to happen. I desperately needed to be someone else, so I took my time, researched shit, and avoided any conversation where I might be outed. I'm sure I didn't fool everyone, but I got some shocked responses when I went back as an adult and owned up to it.

Kids doing it for the authority boost or just as a childish fancy will be easier to spot. Kids doing it as a coping mechanism for their horrible lives will probably blend in a lot better.

Guy_Fieris_Hair , (edited )

I have found the gen xers are the WORST at texting and writing in general. At least the ones I know.

Freefall ,

I would die without autocorrect. I grew up with “mom, how do I spell (word)” and getting “sound it out”, witch werks grate in Inglish…

frostysauce ,

I grew up getting “Look it up!” and I still can’t spell for shit.

Freefall ,

I HATED that one…look it up in the Dictionary…sure ok, let me look up a word I can’t spell …ffs!

MutilationWave ,

Ever watch a kid who grew up after smartphones try to type?

Freefall ,

I can’t get over ironically using stupid lingo, without being good at presenting it as ironic use…so I often seem like a child. I am certainly bad at forming sentences that are not stream of thought (with weird punctuation like parentheses containing clarification…like this…and overused ellipsis…)

Linssiili , (edited )

It’s interesting to meet someone else who also struggles with an overuse of parentheses and ellipses (I didn’t know what they were called, thanks for that!).

This is a complete shot in the dark, but do you also happen to be on the spectrum? (I have nothing to base this on expect my theory that overclarification could be more common among neurodivergent people)

Edit: ellipsis -> ellipses

Freefall ,

I don’t present as on the spectrum, but I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was a kid. I haven’t suffered from it much as an adult. I have heard that the parenthetical over clarification and typing as your thoughts would flow naturally is a sign of Autism in particular. I can control it when I focus, but if I am ranting it comes out in force.

MutilationWave ,

Add to your knowledge- they are ellipses. A single … is an ellipsis. Many words that end in “is” are pluralized as “es”

This is pronounced like iss versus eeze.

LainTrain ,

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.

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.

hemko ,

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

PhobosAnomaly ,

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.

hemko ,

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

LainTrain ,

This is Reddit in a nutshell.

jaywalker ,

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

LainTrain ,

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.

bluespin ,

not reading all that…tldr?

\s

MutilationWave ,

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.

ralen ,

their and your instead of theyre and youre

verity_kindle ,

Too much emotion in their writing. Personal attacks. Doubling down in the reply. Support for the Chinese Communist Party.

qjkxbmwvz ,

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.)

Hextubewontallowme ,

Well, you could count redditor-esque petty opinions as part of that,

That, and using pepe the frog as a PFP… as childish…

frostysauce ,

Dude, fuck these tankie mods. Childish af.

TurboHarbinger ,

Support for the Chinese Communist Party.

Imagine thinking everyone in China is 15yo. It says a lot of you.

frostysauce ,

Imagine thinking everyone in China supports the CCP.

TurboHarbinger ,

I bet is very relevant to:

On the Internet, what is a dead giveaway that someone is actually a kid?

Cowbee ,

According to Harvard in 2020, 95.5% do. That certainly isn’t 100%, but it’s pretty high, I would say.

rbesfe , (edited )

Using a year as an extremely long period of time, never uses “talk it out” as a solution to anything, mentions a YouTuber you’ve never heard of as if they’re a global celebrity.

Also related to the first point, losing their mind over something that delays their education/life plans by 4 months or more.

Alice ,

Ugh, the second one… I used to lurk on relationship subreddits instead of just watching soap operas like a normal person, and it’s wild how quickly people jump to divorce. And if the OP makes an update where they talked it out, a lot of the commenters get mad.

I don’t know that they’re kids, but it wouldn’t surprise me.

JimmyBigSausage ,

No caps or punctuation

apotheotic ,

No cap sigma

Freefall ,

i knoW; right‽

Shawdow194 ,
@Shawdow194@kbin.run avatar

Asking basic questions that can usually be answered with internet experience ("how do bans/kicks work", or "what is an administrator", "what is LAN" etc.)

Flaunting "new" features that existed on older products. ("This game let's us upload our own music to soundtrack!", "I've never seen a platformer like this" etc.)

SanicHegehog ,

Did you know that you can download podcasts and play them without internet?

This one got me the other day.

TheImpressiveX OP ,
@TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml avatar

Really? What’s next, podcasts delivered over airwaves?

SanicHegehog ,

It’s called WiFi smh

Sir_Kevin ,
@Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Their gamer tag includes “Killer”. They’ve never heard the terms “gamer tag” or “handle”.

RandomVideos ,

Is this really common? I dont know any that even used a computer before 2015

Shawdow194 ,
@Shawdow194@kbin.run avatar

💀

Iamsqueegee ,

🔥b00bs🔥 feel like bags of sand 💯

AlternateRoute ,

References TikTok as a source of knowledge

Alice ,

I have family in their 30s and 40s who do that 😭 I wonder if people subconsciously trust TikTokers more than other social media users since they usually show their faces.

NineMileTower ,

I’m pretty sure looking for kids on the internet will get you a nice little seat with Mr. Chris Hansen.

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