What is your age and when you reply to a certain topic is it base on your experience or not coz I'm still 19 years old and still lack of experience and knowledge, I sometimes had a hard time on posting a reply. Is there a member of AP which is younger than me and how would you make yourself interacts with others especially 30 yrs. above and those older people how will you interacts with younger people?

All profiles carry the members age and assuming they filled the registration form out correctly should be accurate. There are members as young as 13 here.

As a general word of warning to those who post in this thread I do not wish to see one liners consisting of your age as the information alone is redundant.

I'm 18 and yes I sometimes having hard times replying to certain topic. But I usually skip it. I don't want to give a comment on things I don't understand. I usually only reply to a topic which I understand or I like. If I really want to reply to a topic but I'm lack of knowledge, I'll try to find out more infomations about it and back to give a reply. But this is rarely happen. So far, I only remember did it once - a topic about manga history.

About interacting with older people... I think it's really depend to each personal. Some people only have a fun chat with someone that's in the same age. Some others have a fun chat better with older people. And there're great people that could do both :] For me, if I really can't interact with that person - older one - I wouldn't push myself. Pushing myself to interact with someone I don't really understand would only create a boring conversation with boring things to talk about. It really depends on the topic that's being disscussed, the situation, etc.

I think, so far, I don't have any problem to talk with younger or older people. As I said, it's really depend. If our personality match with the person, nice and good conversation could easily created.

Regards, Yuki

hatesyou

All profiles carry the members age and assuming they filled the registration form out correctly should be accurate. There are members as young as 13 here. As a general word of warning to those who post in this thread I do not wish to see one liners consisting of your age as the information alone is redundant.

wah, so intimidating lah. O_O'

I'm 18 and sometimes i feel the same way as you too. All these 'old timers' have many more years on us in ways of experience. I mean for a generalized statement they have already done that and seen this.
With me, if theres a topic that begins to get tough and there are alot of older people then all you should do is step back from the topic. Take a look at your response first before posting it to see whether it makes sense or if you're just ranting on and on. That and don't try to type on emotions over logic...i have anger issues sometimes hee hee.
As for the actual interaction, its all about the pesonality clash. There will always be akwardness between people regardless of age, if you get along fine with others then, hey thats great too. As long as you're genuinely trying to discuss a topic, or give an input in the discussion then others won't really criticize you so badly.
PS The new generation of "eThugs" and gangstas is IMO the most horrible thing to come onto the internet. I'm 18 and can't even understand some of the "gangstas" who are juniors to me.

I'm 16 as you can see in my profile.

Indeed, sometimes I'm finding that it's hard for me to understand other's meaning in those threads they posted. For me, I'll just leave them alone and won't bother thinking of any reply to things that I'm totally blind about. In my personal opinion, it'll be much better if I stay 'silent' because it'll be troublesome if I misunderstand the topic and give illogical replies.

So far, I had ever had some difficult conversation with adults, well, it's obvious though... Being adults isn't always nice, they have their own problems to deal with, that's what one of them told me long time ago when I was still a kid and yes, now I begin to understand the reasons behind the madness.

For the time being, I don't really have problems with adult, or should I say that it depends on the interests that we share one another so basically there's nothing like "I don't understand what they're talking anout" but it's supposed to be "It's just still not my time to understand those things. One day, I'll be able to understand it when I grow up."

Please don't take it seriously, it's just my dumb thought though ^^;

Good day~
-Breezie-

I'm 40 and probably the oldest person on AP, but I'm a raving anime fan!

Over the years, here's two things I've observed:
1) As you cross 30, you tend to develop a more pragmatic and cynical view toward things. As you hit 40, you can add pessimistic. Older people tend to be "set in their ways."
2) People college age and younger tend to be more idealistic, and generally open to new ideas.

I'm somewhat of a juxtaposition of both: I'm extremely pragmatic, pessimistic, and cynical, but I'm open to learning new viewpoints and ideas. I generally don't get along very well with people my own age (especially women!!) as I'm trying to regain the idealism I've lost...but it's damn hard when the rigors of middle-age life kick you in the crotch daily. I do have an advantage understanding younger people since my wife is 19 years younger than me.

I will not make a statement in a thread implying "I'm older, so I know more," because that is simply not true. My generation did not have the internet and household computers were rare. Over the last 5-7 years, I've interacted with many, many people 20+ years younger than me, and I've been "schooled" several times. As I mentioned above, I also want to recapture some the youthful idealism I've lost, so I need to be open-minded to the social, cultural, and intellectual observations of the younger generation. I look forward to interaction and while I may not agree with what you say, I'd rather hear it than have someone say nothing assume blanket agreement. SPEAK UP!

I'm 19 this year too. I often have times when I do not know what to post or comment. And in that case, I just read the thread/posts (if I am interested) and just don't post at all. :)

Ups
i'm so young...
i get 15 in less than a month.
I like my age, it's not so young but i still can live my life without trouble.
:)

I'm 15. I sometimes don't have trouble on posting in topics. As some longer existing members have seen, I can have a bit of knowledge in a situation, not to sound pompous or anything. I focus on knowledge and not on looks. So, I can have pretty good conversations with people, even adults.

I am 18 ... amd i am having hard time comunicating with the younger and older than me people ... but i have found a solution ... be polite if someone doesn't appricieted than make him regret it :P


p.s sorry for the bad english
p.s2 Greeting from Bulgaria

Sometimes I just don't want to waste my breathe. I don't particularly mind hanging out with the old folks. As a matter of fact, I love hanging out with them. The people around here are awesome (save hatesyou, since she's a bit mean sometimes), and I love them. I'm 14, and that makes me one of the youngest members here, save animediehard14, she's 13. AnimePaper rocks, and I hope my interest will stay here.

I am 26 years old and I do use my own past experiences to help me in writing down my answers to the questions that are asked. But even with 26 years of experiences, it is not enough, and would not say I always have the rite answer. But with all these younger people I do feel old at times. But I like anime so I don’t care. Even if I were 80 years old I would not care, so that is that. The people that are older then me I like to hang out with them too, it is all the same as long as I can talk and have a nice talk with anyone, you are ok by me. That is my only rule.

I'm 18 about to be 19 in less than a month, but yeah, I agree with what theironwarrior said. Just because someone is older than you does not mean they have more experience than you. They may have more experience in things you haven't done or something you haven't heard about, then again, we young un's have had a vast information and knowledge boost with computers and the internet and all that stuff. And the younger you are, the more info you can take into that head of yours. As you get old, it's harder to learn certain things, but you still can be open to many things. But yeah, that's all I have to say for this topic.

Errmmm, im 15 =| turned 15 in january (so hate my so called early birthday!) ...& yah...i have to agree. i do have difficulties replying some of the posts. not saying people are like OLD or anything, but MOST of the people here ARE older than me. and the way you may talk, would sound more intelligent and more details with the experience you have. most of you do have more experience than me. therefore, i may not be able to answer a whole lot and give information, but i can always give my personal opinion of what i think RIGHT NOW!

Mmm it its not that I cant interact with others but their are sometimes that we younger people cant understand them and beside I've grown in a place were are gap is like 2-4 yrs. and most of the time I just solo play or hangging out in my computer alone how nostalgic and boring but that the fact that's why I have a hard time interacting with other stranger and older people.

regardz to;

Crystal Liu Yi Fei