How old are you?
 

Forum Demographics Survey: Age.

Purpose of the survey? :shrug:

Just cause?

I'm just curious what the crowd is like in here. And how it compares to the general population.

Note to future commentators: As of August 21, 2020 ;)

Poll closes on the 30th....

My bad I didn't see that.

Voted 30-39. I will turn 40 in 10 days. Not sure about the purpose of this, but it was probably the last time in my life that i could select the 30-39 option !!

Thank you so much for giving me that opportunity. :cheers:

I feel ya. I just picked 40 for the first time.....

It's interesting that we have so many twentysomethings. That doesn't seem to as reflected in the discussions on here. Lots of lurkers?

Late 20s and early 30s aren't really that distinguishable.

20-25, 25-30, 30-35, 35-40 etc. felt like too many poll entries to you...?

I agree that I'd be surprised if we had lots of users who are in their early 20s, but late 20s, that wouldn't be unexpected.

I'd imagine the late-20s folks would be the tail end of the forum era on the internet. Especially in a forum like this.

It's just not as popular a medium now.

He's on to us. Abandon mission! :haha:

Well, I picked 50, even though I'm two months away.

Just trying to get used to the concept.

My thoughts too. Reddit seems to cater more to that demographic but I find it inconvenient to use.

I use reddit, mostly to browse, but you don't get the regular conversation with the same group of people very much.

When I registered on the forum in 2012, I was in my early 20s. That was after a few years of lurking.

I'm 55 but told I don't look a day over 54.

This year I'm the oldest I've ever been.

Crap... i just realized i joined SSP back in 2003..... that's already 17 years ago. Not that many posts for me with just above 2900, but many, many hours reading the forum!

The age demographics are just what I expected with more thirty somethings than any other age group. I'm pretty sure you'll find that not only is the average forumer here younger than the general population but they're much more urban which accounts for why i'm an outlier here in a few ways

I’m 25.

Hey, how come there are no categories for 70+, 80+, 90+? :D




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I've heard you stop gaining wisdom at 60.

Yep. I remember joining forums when I was an early teen around 2002-2004, which probably would have been near the end of peak forums, before things like Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter cropped up.

I'm one of the 18-29 respondents and I only have a few weeks left of being in that category...I would imagine the vast majority in that age range are nearer to 29 than 18.

I started using the internet in 1996: mostly British car and electronic music sites. I found UT--joined it in early 2003, SSP & SSC in 2002 when I finally got high speed internet. Prior to that I got my condo/real estate/architecture fix via the Saturday Star and architecture magazines in the Toronto Reference Library: I practically lived in the TRL, often spending 8 hour days there. Moving to Montreal and Vancouver c.2002-05 made me realize how much I missed the TPL system.

I am 36

^My baby brother is older than you.:)

36 and cancer survivor? Wow.

Woot same here. I just turned 25 this month in fact.

I think I lurked on SSP for about 5 years before making an account. It is a unique source of information (local Vancouver development anyway) that doesn't seem to be available anywhere else.

I'm 48, one day older than the illustrious Justin Trudeau.

I’m also one of the 1980 born picking 40 for the first time. Joined way back in the day mostly just lurk, no to many comments but I was near a 1000 at one time for some reason they got erased and started at zero about 15-16 years ago or so.

Turned 32 a couple of months ago.
Joined SSP at the age of 17!!

What I've wondered is why there are almost no women on the forum.

The debates on online forums such as this can get pretty nasty, petty and personal. I doubt too many women are keen to participate.

In other words, to many females, SSP would not be considered a "safe space".

Another thing may be the the focus and subject matter discussed on this particular forum. This might be more attractive to male participants than female participants.

Also a good reminder that SSP is not representative of anything in the real public realm, with respect to majority opinions, etc.

I'm 20, joined here in my teens. I never was super keen on the internet until I was a teen, and found this site when I was still somewhat getting used to using it. Lurked for a year and finally created an account after.

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Is this your way of letting us know you have achieved the half century mark? :)

Your choice of beer is somewhat at odds with your user name......... :rolleyes:

:haha:

Me too! Wow,.that's crazy it's happening to everyone at the same time

I've never known a woman who cared one bit about skyscrapers.

I've always thought I was close to median age in this forum but looks like I'm about a decade away from that until we get more forumers in their 20's ( and less forumers in their 60's) in the 2020s.


There's a regular forumer in Regina but she posts only in the Queen city's threads.
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When I first started posting on SSP there was someone called PrairieGirl from Moose Jaw that posted regularly in the weather thread but she decided to pack it in several years ago, I haven't seen any posts from her account in quite a few years unfortunately :(

Men have opinions, women have feelings. Feelings don't do so well here.

Age wise, few of us want to admit we're in the last category before death. ;)

Exactly. Just like you don’t see a woman watching a Star Trek marathon in their parents basement. That’s the type of crowd we have here.

Hey, can the next thread be "What street did you grow up on?" followed by "what was your first pet's name?"

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not surprised i'm on the young side for this forum. But surprised so few young people visit this site. I'm a member of NUMTOTs on facebook and urbanism, urban planning, transit etc all seem extremely popular among 18-35 year olds, maybe it's the nature of forums themselves being a dying medium.

Won't say my exact age as it's no ones business, all I'll say is I'm in my 20s.

Oh we exist, we just aren't vocal about it, also keep in mind no one specifically mentions their gender on this forum and they very well could be women behind the keyboard without knowing.

There seems to be a tendency online to always assume the person you are talking with is male unless proven otherwise, I get assumed to be male on this forum every single day despite that not being true at all.

Oh, I know there are more than a few women (besides you) who are contributing members of this forum, but I think it's a safe bet to say that it's overwhelmingly men (90+%) who while away the hours on this and other similar development forums.