| Why are the young people on here?
Posted: 11/15/2007 2:43:36 PM | I have noticed quite a large fish population here amoung the 18-25 age group.
My question to all of you, men and women alike is......
I can understand older people being here... moms, dads, business, those of us having to care for their own parents etc.... but what I don't understand is the need to be on an internet dating site for all you young, obigation free, im hoping child free, people who are out there just starting your lives. Those again that I assume are out and about having a good time with your peers.....
Why are you here???
Thanks
JJ | |
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| Why are the young people on here?
Posted: 11/15/2007 2:53:28 PM | I don't think age has much to do with the ability to meet people. I first joined because men don't approach me, and I'm too shy to go near them. Also not many I have met have much of anything in common with me, I haven't ever met in person someone I wanted to date. Online you can read their profile and see their interests, then you know if theres a common interest in the same things or not. Also makes it harder for them to turn away from me, and start chatting up one of my friends they find more physically appealing(happened the one time I tried to flirt with someone I had just met, though he didn't seem to have much in common with me).
I know in person I can come off as intimidating, and maybe 'harsh', but meeting people online, they get to see the real me, and not get the shy nervous cold shoulder that I seem to give upon first meetings in person. That way by the time I meet them face to face, I'm comfortable and know them enough to be at ease, and not give them the 'don't f*cking come near me' vibe.
I'm not very social. I don't like going to the clubs where most of the men in my town aren't looking for a girlfriend anyways, just a one time hook up. | |
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| Why are the young people on here?
Posted: 11/15/2007 2:55:25 PM | | I've asked myself the same question. When I was 16-18 I was too busy out there having a good time to bother with internet dating (mind you, it wasn't around then, so I guess I can't really say for sure that it it had of been I wouldn't have been tempted :) I guess it's also a way for some of the less mature people to have an oggle. | |
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| Why are the young people on here?
Posted: 11/15/2007 3:21:03 PM | | It is simply another way to potentially meet people that you otherwise probably would have never met. There is nothing to lose by joining POF since it's free. | |
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| Why are the young people on here?
Posted: 11/15/2007 3:34:40 PM | 18-25 yr olds have no lives. some are in school or working working (most of the time both). some have children....
most of my friends who are in school or working, find its easier to have a balance between these and socializing when its (socializing) in the form of the internet.
age has nothing to do with the reasons behind why they are here.
i doubt the internet is the last resort for those over the age of 30, so why would you assume it is for those between 18-25? some prefer it as their way of meeting new ppl. | |
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| Why are the young people on here?
Posted: 11/15/2007 3:39:42 PM | I don't know about all the other young people but myself I'm 19, I still go out with friends, go on dates, have a good time in the "real world" just not as much as I did in the past because I work and I have to be on the computer alot because of the career I'm going into, but its also fun to meet people from around the country or even around the world. And I seriously don't think that maturity has anything to do with it.
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| Why are the young people on here?
Posted: 11/15/2007 3:40:56 PM | I think that it's just become common for people, who've grown up in the past decade, to try meeting people online.
When I was 18-25 ish, I'd have never considered it.
To me, the internet is something I use to try meeting people now that I'm a little older, don't get out as much as I used to, and have fewer single friends my age. When I was young, had a social life, and all my friends were single, I certainly wouldn't have bothered with a dating site profile.
I think most people in their 30s and 40s have the same opinion of dating sites as I do: It's something to be used because it's getting harder to meet people elsewhere in life as we get older. If it wasn't, we wouldn't bother using dating sites.
But in the past decade, the internet's become so commonly used, that 18 year olds, who've grown up in the internet world, think nothing of trying to meet people online, even though they easily have other options available. To them it's just a common way of meeting people.
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| Why are the young people on here?
Posted: 11/15/2007 3:48:33 PM | | Boredom--and I will admit, it is entertaining to hear old people talk about sex so freely, even if I have to wretch a time or two. It's kind of like watching that show "Talk Sex With Sue". | |
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| Why are the young people on here?
Posted: 11/15/2007 3:50:17 PM | Why not?...
Im young...Yes
I go out with my friends...Yes
But theres no harm in having a bit of a giggle with internet dating either, is there?
I didnt realise there was an age limit to this site..
Plus alot of people my age meet partners at bars and nightclubs.
Well I dont go to either.
1) I dont drink/smoke
2) Not really my type of music
and 3) My idea of a good night isnt to dress in skimpy clothing and have drunk guys grab my arse all night..
Leave us young uns alone! | |
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| Why are the young people on here?
Posted: 11/15/2007 4:08:46 PM | .....here to meet people all over the place. I dont really care about age - I like having online friends from the "REAL-WORLD" ones.....this site came before myspace blew up too!  | |
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| Why are the young people on here?
Posted: 11/15/2007 4:16:09 PM | | I wish I had the internet when I was 18 - 25. Although I was going to college - had a full time job and had started my own family - I would loved to have connected with other women and guys to befriend. Life is busy - life is stressful and there is minimal time to get out and make friendships. At least with the internet you can pop on and off all day - to see who is around to connect with!! 18 - 25 is a time when life changes and you become more wrapped up in jobs and your future - this is a great way to stay connected to 'people'! | |
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| Why are the young people on here?
Posted: 11/15/2007 4:33:35 PM | I happen to LOVE older men,and apparently this is where they all go
Do older women feel threatened by having the younger ones here? | |
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| Why are the young people on here?
Posted: 11/15/2007 4:36:22 PM | School , jobs too sleepy to wake up before noon. 18-25 year olds have lives too . old people such as my self are supposed to be afraid of the internet anyway. Why is anyone online  because it is easy and you can talk to people while in the comfort of your office , home ,at school etc. | |
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| Why are the young people on here?
Posted: 11/15/2007 4:36:41 PM | | ^^^^^ threatened - um nope! 'Cause while you are going after the old farts - the young bucks are going after us older gals!! hehehe Not that I'm dating any more but I am sure most older women here are very confident! | |
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| Why are the young people on here?
Posted: 11/15/2007 4:38:46 PM | | Maybe the world is changing. When I was 18-25 I had tons of dates and friends, co-workers, parties, clubbing. I would never have wasted a second on the internet doing anything but work - of course the internet was only available about the time I was 18 and no one really used it for chatting much. | |
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| Why are the young people on here?
Posted: 11/15/2007 4:39:49 PM | | I'm on a few different sites with forums, and each one has a different style of posting or different ideas on it. I know this is a 'dating' site, but I don't really go out of my way to treat it as such... I honestly enjoy talking to the people on here, just for the sake of talking. It's one of the ways I relax from having a busy, stressful, work/school filled life. There's usually at least one interesting conversation going on SOMEWHERE on the internet... even if it's just laughing at disbelief at some of the bitterness the old people have on here. | |
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| Why are the young people on here?
Posted: 11/15/2007 4:53:21 PM | Wooohooooooo i LOVE them old farts!!! LeeAnn im sure in your case that is so true because you are obviously a attractive and smart woman, but i have noticed it in a lot of others, (not just here)
Though i may add i have been raising a child on my own, and continuing my education and working nonstop and doing plus-size modeling and cared for a very sick grandparent at one point since the age of 19. I also live in a small island town where the main venue of entetainment is getting drunk and/or high, which just isnt for me!
Young people do sometimes have responsibilities 2!
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| Why are the young people on here?
Posted: 11/15/2007 7:22:41 PM | Do older women feel threatened by having the younger ones here
lol theres always one defensive one in every thread.... hahhahah guess you're it!
Question for the "older ladies"........ do you feel threatened ? 
oh and for all the "younger ones"... who, based on their replies, felt they needed to defend why they are on here.... RELAX it was just a general question....eeshhhhhh KIDS!!! lol | |
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| Why are the young people on here?
Posted: 11/15/2007 7:48:04 PM | If you go to any high school or college a lot of the students are on computers chatting to other people on myspace. A lot of young ppl in the age group from 18-25 have myspace pages and use them frequently. More even younger than that.
A bunch of young guys were saying that they use myspace to pick up girls. It's easier for them to just look at a girl and see if their interests match theirs. Instead of wasting time on a girl only to find out later on that you have nothing in common.
Also facebook is a good way to find friends that you lost touch with since high school.
the internet is not just for older people. if the internet was around when you were 18-25 you'd be on it too | |
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| Why are the young people on here?
Posted: 11/15/2007 7:51:53 PM | Do older women feel threatened by having the younger ones here I don't think anyone feels threatened.
I believe the reason for the OP's question was:
most of us people over 30, (who didn't have the internet when we were 18) never considered trying to meet people this way, until we reached the stages of our lives where we started realising: "I'm too old for nightclubs. I'm too busy with a career. I don't have many friends my age who are still single. Where can I meet someone?"
To people our age, it seems odd that someone, who hasn't hit the point in their lives where we are, is considering using this method to meet people.
Those of us over 30 are just accustomed to thinking that younger people are still trying to meet people in bars, through friends, in university or wherever else people met when we were younger. | |
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| Why are the young people on here?
Posted: 11/15/2007 7:54:09 PM | | I am a college student (21 years old) who happens to prefer men who are a bit older than myself (28-35) and in a town with two colleges and very few unattached men who aren't my professors, that is very far away from my hometown (which I know a lot better) it is hard to find someone to date. Also, some issues transcend age. I also am very shy, and talking online makes it easier for me whereas going to a nightclub or barhopping to find a partner is enough to make me break out in hives. It also forces people I find to talk about 'important things' like interests etc. and get to know each other as people. I dunno, that is just my feelings on the subject. | |
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| Why are the young people on here?
Posted: 11/15/2007 8:01:45 PM | | Okay, I am out of the 18-25 group but not by much. ( I am 26) Most of us younger people have just as busy of lives as older people. I work and go to school full time. The bar scene is just a rediculous waste of time and money. There are not really too many places to go and meet someone if you are not into bars and clubs. | |
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| Why are the young people on here?
Posted: 11/15/2007 8:05:50 PM | Not a bit OP, not a bit.
Say that again and i will run and tell my mommy about the mean old ladies picking on me!!!!!
Why ask a question if you dont want an answer?
and of coursde their gonna say NO! | |
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