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52. At 34 I'm def on the younger end
Sat Mar 5, 2022, 02:30 PM
Mar 2022

One fun thing about my age cohort (people born 1986 ~ 1992) is that we entered kindergarten in an analog world, and graduated high school in a digital world. Technology kinda “grew up” alongside us.

What I am hearing on the radio right now... DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 #1
Always loved that song PlanetBev Mar 2022 #34
I think you forgot something DemocraticPatriot canetoad Mar 2022 #2
Now i have. 59 DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 #5
Thank you! canetoad Mar 2022 #8
Ask me two weeks from today DFW Mar 2022 #3
Are you finally turning 40?!? róisín_dubh Mar 2022 #4
Well.................don't tell anyone this, OK? DFW Mar 2022 #26
but we ask tonight, not 2 weeks later DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 #6
I use my DU right to refuse to answer DFW Mar 2022 #27
I turn 60 myself in about three weeks. Dial H For Hero Mar 2022 #33
Been there, done that: DFW Mar 2022 #41
'Early returns' suggest that we are mostly older than shit DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 #7
Periodically canetoad Mar 2022 #10
I'm not the same age I was when I joined DFW Mar 2022 #28
Thank you for that reference! Many of us here will get it ms liberty Mar 2022 #29
As the saying goes...... DFW Mar 2022 #30
And what a great age! MuseRider Mar 2022 #38
It's from a Bob Dylan song DFW Mar 2022 #77
Love 'The Byrds' too... nt DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 #55
Musically, their version was by far the best DFW Mar 2022 #75
yes, the site started about 20 years ago, yes? DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 #69
Tom Petty was indeed a loss! Btw, it was the Byrds who did the cover DFW Mar 2022 #74
bedtime is 3am orleans Mar 2022 #9
You're a true night owl True Dough Mar 2022 #12
Same here, I'm a night owl plus I have terminal insomnia. I've always been up when everyone Raine Mar 2022 #15
I'm definitely a night owl, and I wish I could get to sleep by 3 wackadoo wabbit Mar 2022 #19
Same here, but I'm more like 3-4am to 10-11am. smirkymonkey Mar 2022 #44
I have found the supplement "melatonin" to be helpful for sleep.. DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 #71
Way back when, I was presented with option of a desk job with regular hours. I was 23. I passed. DFW Mar 2022 #78
i'd be up later too if i had more options orleans Mar 2022 #59
same here I was always a night owl. yellowdogintexas Mar 2022 #58
This message was self-deleted by its author jfz9580m Mar 2022 #11
I'm about to exit the category you just entered True Dough Mar 2022 #13
This message was self-deleted by its author jfz9580m Mar 2022 #23
The really interesting thing about our age is that when (a lot) of us joined we were two categories Eureka Mar 2022 #14
It's hard to believe that I first joined DU 17 1/2 years ago. StevieM Mar 2022 #53
I don't think age matters. A person is an idiot, or they're not. betsuni Mar 2022 #16
+1 brer cat Mar 2022 #24
Agreed. I've been an idiot for over half a century. DFW Mar 2022 #79
I rarely engage in discussion because of time zone difference. Myrddin Mar 2022 #17
Yes, not all of us are in the U.S. betsuni Mar 2022 #18
Boomers Baby! denbot Mar 2022 #20
I thought you needed less sleep as you got older? Shermann Mar 2022 #21
Will DU grow old and fade away? Kaleva Mar 2022 #22
It's the weekend berniesandersmittens Mar 2022 #25
Some of us older DUers occasionally find fun shit to do, too (state secret) DFW Mar 2022 #81
Have you considered the time zones we live in? Hekate Mar 2022 #31
Celerity is just a baby! milestogo Mar 2022 #32
Thankies! Celerity Mar 2022 #72
Old enough to know better, but young enough to not really care... Wounded Bear Mar 2022 #35
I jumped on DU when I was 50 PlanetBev Mar 2022 #36
This message was self-deleted by its author PlanetBev Mar 2022 #37
DUers are mostly older. MineralMan Mar 2022 #39
It's because the younger ones are all busy FakeNoose Mar 2022 #40
yes, "message boards" have somewhat fallen 'out of favor' DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 #70
Just turned. . . ironflange Mar 2022 #42
Somewhere between 40 and Death. Golden Raisin Mar 2022 #43
Yes, but how many states were there? A HERETIC I AM Mar 2022 #54
I was in my 30's when I joined! smirkymonkey Mar 2022 #45
I was, too! AwakeAtLast Mar 2022 #47
And I thought it was bad back then, which is what prompted me to join DU! smirkymonkey Mar 2022 #48
No kidding! AwakeAtLast Mar 2022 #50
This is by far the oldest forum that I'm on (and I'm on like 50) Polybius Mar 2022 #46
38! Elessar Zappa Mar 2022 #49
Well, the calendar says 60. Iggo Mar 2022 #51
At 34 I'm def on the younger end JonAndKatePlusABird Mar 2022 #52
wow there are more 80+ than 30-somethings. WarGamer Mar 2022 #56
well I a, 73 and I usually check in here before I go to bed...at 1:00 am nt yellowdogintexas Mar 2022 #57
Almost 35. sakabatou Mar 2022 #60
It appears that the vast majority of us either lived through the 1960's or were born during them, artemisia1 Mar 2022 #61
It is what it is. DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 #62
I was born in 1962, 2 months after the Cuban missile crisis... DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 #63
Geez, we're like Congress TexasBushwhacker Mar 2022 #64
I tried hard for the first year or 2 after I joined in 2018 to get some of my friends/schoolmates/ Celerity Mar 2022 #67
You are one of my favorites here, DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 #73
Awww, thanks, I appreciate that and your posts as well. Celerity Mar 2022 #76
so disheartening that out of 324 replies, there are only 2 of us under 30, & only 11 total under 40 Celerity Mar 2022 #65
Blame my parents DFW Mar 2022 #80
I don't like my Chinese Zodiac animal, lolol, 1996, year of the Rat, Fire Rat to be precise Celerity Mar 2022 #83
I should look that up DFW Mar 2022 #84
The numbers do explain a whole lot Bettie Mar 2022 #82
I was a young 56 when I joined DU in 2003. Now I'm 74. Elwood P Dowd Mar 2022 #66
Was it the Iraq War that brought you here? Celerity Mar 2022 #68
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