Age and the Internet

[jducoeur]

Normally I take in stride that my habits and associations aren't typical for my age. But sometimes it gets really striking. Check out the age distribution chart on the stats page.

Okay, I'm not exactly at the bottom of the chart. But that bell curve is getting pretty thin by the time it gets to me. Which doesn't actually bother me, but it's always a little curious to have one's own peculiarity shoved into one's face.

(I'm also struck by how atypical my crowd is, in general. I know a lot of over-30 LJ users, and it's interesting to realize that we're collectively a statistical anomaly...)

Comments

[tpau]

dood, the top fo the curve is 18... i am nowhere near 30 and the curve is damn thin by me too... though i have to say a large number of peopel don't give their year of birth i woudl think...

[mr-teem.livejournal.com]

Hurm. Just checked and I didn't bother to give my year of birth but, of course, I'm down aways too.

LiveJournal only got started in '99 and didn't get its Webby until 2001, I think. That's when I first heard about it, anyway. Blogs and other forms of journaling were already being adopted by the (handwave) "over-30" crowd. (I've been using AOL for over a decade...)

[chaiya.livejournal.com]

Hey, at least the thirty-year-olds outweigh the thirteen-year-olds!

But, um, that's the good news. You're in the upper 10.3 percent of the range, which means that you're no longer in the main 2/3 of the curve. You're not even close to the majority.

Yes, I'm reading my statistics book. Why do you ask? ;)

[snarkyman.livejournal.com]

If you notice, most of us post our birthdays, but not the year. This makes the stats for the over 30 crowd look lower than they actually are.