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Bewaretheicespiders t1_j9dv0i3 wrote

Its absolutely important that you listen to me now: dont take advice from reddit. It can do you no good.

Seriously the average demographics on reddit is very very young and most teens are at best very naive, at worse cynical arseholes. Mute some subs and live happy.

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Spicy_mch4ggis t1_j9dxzyo wrote

100% agree. Not to mention what passes for "political discourse" is aggressively divisive and lacking critical emotional intelligence skills such as empathy.

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meatballx t1_j9f5sw6 wrote

Top comment right here. Most of what you'll find on the main reddit subs are either children or adults working crappy, un-skilled jobs complaining about rich people. Never take financial advice from gas station clerks.

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BasketBallz8890 t1_j9k9o7q wrote

I get what you mean, but gas station clerks and the like are people too. And they are suffering. Why would you judge how worthy this country is by exclusively measuring the satisfaction of it's financially secure people? That doesn't make sense to me. We don't judge other countries by how happy and robust their middle and wealthy classes are exclusively.

I myself am comfortably middle class and yet I still see that dissatisfaction is growing among all social and economic classes that aren't property owning or financially stable. That's a lot of people in America, and we need them for our society to function. Are we going to just tune out their dissatisfaction and suffering? Seems a bit callous to me...

I don't think people worried or complaining about America's future are all whiny cynical teenagers.

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Beithir3386 t1_j9ee7pc wrote

Sounds like something two kids in a trench coat would say… /s

But for real, do actual research and question everything.

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Diaming787 t1_j9i24lw wrote

Thank you for this comment! Reading stuff like this on reddit spoils me to almost having a depression. Yes, there are some world issues, but it's still a heck of a lot better than almost all of human history.

I don't think it will get worse. There are just ups and downs and we are just in downs at the moment.

From what I know, people spread negativity so effectively, ignoring the positives. Reddit it a prime example.

In my opinion, it's best to tune out the news and negative reddit subs, start learning new things and enjoy the single life you have.

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IOM1978 t1_j9grrpk wrote

> average demographics on Reddit is very very young

That was true back in the day, but currently 18 to 29 and 30 to 62 are almost exactly equal, and account for about 70% of users.

Kinda crazy …

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se7ensquared t1_j9hoay8 wrote

21% of redditors are 10-19 so you missed a big group that are considered Young. 50% of redditors are under 30 with average age being 23

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IOM1978 t1_j9i5czn wrote

I wasn’t arguing the point, just adding to it. Looked up the stats in response to the comment and thought it was interesting.

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[deleted] OP t1_j9koo0w wrote

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IOM1978 t1_j9kpkow wrote

Are there stats?

I have to imagine Reddit has aged — I know I have, lol.

But, also, the how-to content is huge now. It was a lot more niche when it was first rolling.

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se7ensquared t1_j9kq14u wrote

Now that I think about it more, reddit has been around quite a while. I'm sure a lot of the user base aged with it. I think it's been around for 20 years right?

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IOM1978 t1_j9krusw wrote

I had to look it up — 2006 founded by Aaron Schwarz, who they killed for his contributions…

He would shit if he knew what corporate tool its become.

I got on in 2008 when the internet was still wild and free and beautiful…

In 2011 you could find out everything you needed to know to buy <almost> anything you wanted on the darknet via Reddit.

Vendors used to run specials- you could interact w them. Hell, you could still chat w Dread for a few years after come to think of it.

The Establishment just had NO idea

Man, when all that collapsed — when those FBI banners sprang up all over the deepweb, it was like you just knew it was the beginning of the end.

Reddit cracked down shortly after … as usual, they cracked down on stuff that shoulda been locked down long before (underage/sketchy nudes), and used that as an excuse to just shatter all the libertarian communities (small ‘l’, not like Ron Paul).

Ha ha— that little date look up sent me down a memory hole, lol!

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se7ensquared t1_j9n2rex wrote

Yeah my main account was created in 2007 or 08. Sadly I deleted it when I was going through a life transition. Really wish I still had that account would love to look back at some of the things I posted

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btran935 t1_j9fqber wrote

While it’s true in general not to take reddits advice as it’s generally just a bunch of strangers, the left leaning subs tend to have very accurate criticisms of American problems.

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