How do you see the community board? *Inspired by another thread*

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I see any on-line venue as geared towards adults unless it has a specific "teen theme" so to speak.

I have no problems what so ever with the teens posting. However as in the real world, their level of maturity will dictate how they will get perceived and subsequently treated.

Given the range of topics on the community board--very much geared towards grown ups or those mature enough to handle the heat in the kitchen.

(i.e. 15yos who get offended b/c their 3 hour a week babysitting job doesn't constitute authority to provide parenting advice..bug me. That's like me at 35 offering tips on how to be cool at school. )

 

[bicker]

Bicker--I can usuallt decipher what you mean with all your high dollar words. I understand all the words (though I admit to have never seen social groups called "socio appellations"--I see appellation and think wine) but with the triple negative and also "process of emlination" thrown in, I have no idea what you are getting at! Can you try again please?

You don't do crossword puzzles do you?

Translation you requested: "Us old fogies don't got no udder place."

 

[DramaQueen]

Idefinitely see it geared more towards adults. I've been posting on the TB since I was about 15, I'm 20 now and still tend to post over there vs over here because there's a tight community of friends over there, and I don't know anyone over here. So I'm more comfortable posting on the TB not because I'm 'afraid of the CB', but because I have friends on the TB that I enjoy talking to.
(and in a few years I'll be the creepy old lady that still posts on the TB )

I'm sure I'll eventually cross over, but I still identify as a teen, and most of the CB conversations centre around family/job related stuff that I have no experience with just yet.

 

[Imzadi]

Not trying to be mean, I just found it really funny that the poster that said this has a picture of Harry Potter as their avatar.

Honestly, I don't care who posts on the CB, and I'm not trying to make any kind of a point. Just found that genuinely amusing

But, adults read Harry Potter, too.

Do adults read Twilight? Just wondering.

 

[bicker]

Compare the number of copies of those books sold versus the number of teens who are readers for leisure in this country, and I bet you'll see that there is no way that the teens alone could account for the number of copies of those books sold.

 

[~disneydiva~]

But, adults read Harry Potter, too.

Do adults read Twilight? Just wondering.

I do and I'm 27. I have a friend in her 30's and she reads them. We are going to the midnight showing of New Moon too.

 

[Micca]

I have family in the appellations. No running water, no electricity, it's terrible.

 

[NHdisneylover]

You don't do crossword puzzles do you?

Not often--I prefer logic puzzles or just books. So rarely in fact that I do not know what makes you say that. Is it that the multiple negatives threw me
? Or that I am used to appellatin having something to do with the where the grapes for my wine were grown
Can I assume, based on this comment, that you actually intend for your posts to be cryptic?!

Translation you requested: "Us old fogies don't got no udder place."

I see. So you were intending to comment that there should be an "old fogies" board?

But, adults read Harry Potter, too.

Do adults read Twilight? Just wondering.

When I was a librarian we had as many adults as teens/tweens on the waiting lists for the Twilight books.

 

[OK!]

I rarely see kids posting here; the ones that have, have largely been so mature and well-spoken that I probably wouldn't have guessed them to be teenagers if there hadn't been some telltale signs in sigs and avatars.

 

[Jenvenza]

I have family in the appellations. No running water, no electricity, it's terrible.

 

[Jenvenza]

I also tend to see it as an adult forum, but every once in a while, I realize it's not. I have thought on more than one occasion that some postersseem really immature with their posts, then I see where they post that they are 14! So then I get it!

But then again, adults can post some really immature stuff on here, too!

 

[belle&sebastiansmom]

Hi there!

Edward Cullen in my siggy.

I'm many years out of my teens.

How does Twilight always get dragged into things?

I don't mind teens reading / posting, but I do agree that perhaps the teens should be identified somehow.

 

[Carly_Roach]

Another poster who sees it as an "adult" board. Teens are welcome if they can carry on a conversation in an adult manner, but I rather like knowing I'm talking with adults who've had some of the same life experiences as I have.

I'm a 45 y/o woman who really has nothing in common with a 14 y/o girl anymore.

 

[KAMLEM]

I think it's more adult oriented. Isn't there a teen board here too? I would think most teens would feel more comfortable chatting there, with people their own age or closer to it anyway.

I once suggested that and was flamed for saying something so crazy.

I think recently there have been a lot of "full moons"..

What?

 

[bicker]

Can I assume, based on this comment, that you actually intend for your posts to be cryptic?!

I intend cryptic posts to be cryptic.

 

[BeachGirlFLA]

But, adults read Harry Potter, too.

Do adults read Twilight? Just wondering.

My niece does and she's 31.

 

[BeachGirlFLA]

I have family in the appellations. No running water, no electricity, it's terrible.

Don't you meant that it's "turrible"?

 

[Imzadi]

I have family in the appellations. No running water, no electricity, it's terrible.

I thought you call that "Tradition."

 

[DawnCt1]

I see it as a community. Much like kids and teens at an adult gathering, some stay and talk, many leave with not much to say. I am not sure why anyone thinks it needs to be more tightly structured.

 

[NHdisneylover]

I see it as a community. Much like kids and teens at an adult gathering, some stay and talk, many leave with not much to say. I am not sure why anyone thinks it needs to be more tightly structured.

Dawn--it really freaks me out when I agree with you