Granted, I also started with the net sometime in my (mid)-20s, and can look back on a handful of spectacular humiliating-in-retrospect instances of me jumping the gun which, though, helped immensely in (trying to) not make a total arse of myself in the future. Which, admittedly, doesn't quite stop me from having and 'sharing' strong opinions, if less so in purely fandom matters (if I have strong opinions, I'd rather pick my fights in the real world where it's, well, *real*).
Though black-and-white thinking isn't really the sphere of youth, I think (even if you might get more objective with age). But I've seen adults (even post-twen adults) behave worse than the silliest pre-teen gits (and teenagers behaving in extremely mature ways) way too often to think that's true. Pity, but...
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Date: 2007-08-03 01:13 pm (UTC)Granted, I also started with the net sometime in my (mid)-20s, and can look back on a handful of spectacular humiliating-in-retrospect instances of me jumping the gun which, though, helped immensely in (trying to) not make a total arse of myself in the future. Which, admittedly, doesn't quite stop me from having and 'sharing' strong opinions, if less so in purely fandom matters (if I have strong opinions, I'd rather pick my fights in the real world where it's, well, *real*).
Though black-and-white thinking isn't really the sphere of youth, I think (even if you might get more objective with age). But I've seen adults (even post-twen adults) behave worse than the silliest pre-teen gits (and teenagers behaving in extremely mature ways) way too often to think that's true. Pity, but...