[ SECRET POST #3023 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3023 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 056 secrets from Secret Submission Post #432.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 2 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I can't believe people on here are acting like the age gap doesn't matter. It really does.

I was in a RP group and when they found out I was in my late twenties (they were all 18) they got really skeeved out by me being older and iced me out of the group. I've even see a lot of 18-mid twenty year olds who specify on there journals they don't want to add anyone older or younger than them. I know #notalltwentyyearolds, but there are a lot of people who'd much rather interact within there own age group.

From personal experience, just find a way to casually mention or ask about their age and drop your own. Better they find out now and see how they react than become really attached to them and possibly lose them later.

[blitzwing]

I've even see a lot of 18-mid twenty year olds who specify on there journals they don't want to add anyone older or younger than them. I know #notalltwentyyearolds, but there are a lot of people who'd much rather interact within there own age group.

I have literally never seen a single journal specifying no older people (in 11 years of journaling). I have seen lots of people with a "no under-18s please" thing in their journals, but that's it.

If OP's friend was one of those people that was extremely disturbed by an age difference, it would probably be in the secret.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

There was a big drama recently when followers of someone's fandom Tumblr (I think they posted art, or comics) found out they were an older fan. A lot of their younger followers felt that they should have made this clear, because they didn't want to be following someone that far out of their own age group, and felt very uncomfortable with the fact they'd been interacting with this person without knowing.

While a lot of their arguments about how Tumblr was supposed to be a safe space for young people seemed a little entitled, Tumblr is also a 13+ platform, it's not exclusively for adults. Fandom also skews younger there, so it might have been a little naive for them to think that everyone they squeed about fandom with was their own age, it's also pretty understandable.

As someone older who may end up interacting with minors, then if only for the sake of covering your own ass it makes sense to at least allude to your age group. All it takes is for one over-zealous parent to check their kid's browsing history and decide that you talking to them innocently about ships is some kind of grooming.

[blitzwing]

Ahh ok. If airt meant Tumblr, they should have said that, not journal. Journal implies Livejournal, Dreamwidth, Blurty, somewhere sane.

On Tumblr you'll see all kinds of idiocy "don't follow me if you're neurotypical!!!!" "If you're cis ask before reblogging any of my posts!!!!" "NO ONE OVER 18 CAN FOLLOW ME!!!!!" lulz.

[cloud_riven]

Divulging information about yourself because an ageist someone is too ridiculous and presumptuous to exercise caution online, particularly on a sharing platform without effective privacy filters?

Your what-if paranoia is so off.Their parent or guardian should invest in a proper firewall.

[(Anonymous)]

Their parent or guardian should invest in a proper firewall.

LOL.

So the whole movement to block internet sites because "Omg someone think of the children!" has passed you by, has it? ISP porn filters automatically turned on unless you specifically say "yes I want porn" because some parent is too lazy or stupid to watch what their kids are doing online?

Parents use the internet like a free babysitter, they have no idea what their kids do but magically it's always someone else's fault and responsibiliyuif they stumble across thing they shouldn't.

[cloud_riven]

Though it seems sarcasm seems to fly past you, doesn't it. I don't care about out-of-touch adults who don't take responsibility for their kid's curiousity. They're going to find a way around blocks anyways. But I'ds still rather the useless efforts than the embarrassing ones.

Tumblr has never been a safe space or pitched as children's community. So some fantasy situation about mom and dad losing it because you chat about movie hunks with a grown-ass woman? Maybe on a laughably forgettable Fox segment.

[(Anonymous)]

You don't establish that it matters to people with sense. All of the examples you cite seem to be about very childish, silly people.