[ SECRET POST #2209 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2208 ⌋

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

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

...You couldn't type by the age of ten? Really? By the time I was nine, I could almost always pass as an adult on the internet. I find it hard to believe that you were incoherent enough to be branded as a troll.

Fond nostalgia ahoy

[nyxelestia]

Eh, it's probably related to how much computer tech they grew up with and how tech-savy their family was.

My mom didn't see a computer until she was nearly 30, and to this day, over two decades later, she still has trouble with often basic computer functions, and her typing is, uh, not good. Impressive considering English isn't her first language, but still not particularly good. She has to stop and edit several times and take a lot of time to get her writing as eloquent as her speaking, and seeing as most people don't do that when talking online, if her writing was always her 'first draft' style, she'd definitely come across as trollish at times, or at least somewhat idiotic.

On the flip side, I've been playing on or using computers all my life, so computers are very intuitive for me. I've been in quite a few typing and computer classes at school, and almost all of them were very redundant for me, and I ended up completing the assignment or whatever in the first few minutes and then spent the rest of the class session either goofing off or helping other kids, some of whom never used a computer in their life outside of these classes. I got into fandom when I was 12 and I regularly passed for an adult, but I also knew that was pretty rare - most 12 year olds I knew were as idiotic online as they were in real life, and even at that age I could usually spot another under-ager a mile away, masquerading as an adult or not (back then it was usually the former, though these days it's usually the latter).

[(Anonymous)]

I dunno, I've found most adults don't pass for adults on the internet these days, at least on Facebook and twitter. So if they're not used to fandom, where "u" instead of "you" is still normally forbidden...

[(Anonymous)]

I'd never used a computer by the age of Ten. I was about Fifteen before I'd used one. I'm not even that old.
And before you say anything typing on a type writer is a hell of a lot different.

...Then again My Mum still hasn't used a computer.

[(Anonymous)]

(OP)

We had a computer, but before that all we used it for was games. I was real familiar with the arrow keys, but not so much the typing.

To be fair, they probably thought I was a troll because I said dumb things, not because I couldn't type. >.>

[diet_poison]

That's not condescending at all, nope.

[(Anonymous)]

How old are you?

Andromeda started airing in 2000. The world's changed a lot in the last 12 years. Kids used to not have nearly the technology exposure that they do now.

I'm 29, perhaps not truly young in fandom standards but far from ancient. I grew up getting 1 hr a week of computer time in school, and that was nothing but some pre-installed games. No typing, no internet. I learned to type and first went online in 1998 when I was 14 in an 8th grade computer class. I didn't get a computer of my own and thus regular internet/typing experience until I was 16. I was an absolute idiot online for probably at least the first 3 years. It was a different communication style and different social norms than I'd grown up with.

[(Anonymous)]

I could type coherently by the time I was eleven (I can't remember whether or not I could by ten), but I was a rarity among my friends.

Even so, I got pinpointed as being quite young several times in the first 2ish years I was online - and after that, generally long before anyone I knew would say, "Oh, I'm 15," I would suspect them of being younger than the others around us... even though they would often have some of the best typing skills! (Which made sense, given where I was interacting with people; it was very, very nerdy.)

Young people think differently.

[(Anonymous)]

Eyeroll. I used computers from the age of two, the internet from age seven, and I was still branded as a troll in all of my early interactions with people online. For me, it had nothing to do with not being able to type or something, and everything to do with being a weird, awkward person.