Not everyone is male or female.

There are only 10 spaces. I did the best I could with what was available.

And WAY more jaded, of course.

Amazing that it’s been 19 years.

Went Too Fast!💙🌊🕊️🕯️🇺🇸

Age happens, I felt sort of good in that poll as 50+!!!!!!

Aloha, bdamommma

I still have 2 more years till I hit my 20

I left for 2 years in 2010 come to think of it.

Female, age 58.

the age I was when I started this Journey.

82 YO male

Decade this year.

Now it’s all staying healthy. And the 💙🌊🇺🇸🕯️🕊️

🙂

I'm turning 34 years old next week. I've been a registered Democrat since 2008. I'm a fairly liberal guy and my views haven't really changed over the years. "Vote blue no matter who" is the motto I follow.

I joined DU in 2012 just before the election. I'm happy to be here in these crazy times.

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In the early days there were several high school and college students who were regular posters. I was in my early 40s (65 now). I’m a bit surprised there aren’t more younger people here now.

I wonder if the lack of younger folks here now is the changing face of social media? I also post on Facebook a fair bit but not TikTok and my kids (who are in their 20s) think Facebook is outdated

Social media isn't an adequate explanation for so many demographics being so poorly represented. Presumably, people in their late teens and early 20's stumbled on this site in the early 2000's. Any reasons they might not have stuck around?

They are no where near as popular or as active as they were when I was in high school. Many went under as ad blockers became the norm(since many derived their revenue to run the site from ads) and reddit subreddits and Facebook groups have replaced many of them. The handful of others that I am still members of have similar age demo's as DU, they nearly all skew older.

We came when BushCheney were installed. We were in robust active middle age then…
…and many of us had real life experience in political activism from our youth, which we used to oppose BushCheney..

We stayed. We made friends. Many subgroups formed.

It’s amazing what a quarter century will do to one’s age and energy. I thought everybody else stayed the same age — it was kind of a shock to realize everybody else aged too.

Back then there wasn’t any posters near my age that I knew of. Most were in their 40s, 50s, and 60s at that time.

backgrounds. DU has so many groups which is great - for educators, expats, musicians, artists, Christians, feminists, cooks, birders and more.

It would be healthy to have more younger members here to share their views, experiences and concerns. New blood. They could still participate in other social media platforms.

Young people are the future and have the most at stake in these difficult times.

'Young lions show me your teeth.'

A lot has changed in the world, a lot has stayed the same, for better or worse, and a lot of things have gotten worse.

DU keeps me sane.

I'll never leave...

either been here since 2006. I wish we could have a DU convention and see each other face to face.
I'm curious.

DU-ers used to post pics of themselves as a kind of get-to-know-you. There also used to be many posts in which DU-ers would share pics of themselves, their families, and their lives. I don't see many of those anymore. I can only assume right-wing trolls started harassing anyone they could plausibly claim to identify through their pics. I'm sure there were death threats, too.

So, no more pics.

always have to ruin things for people,

My son, the ‘ putor whiz advised me not to post pics.Been following Du since Christ was a corporal, back in early days 20000s. A Mac tuquise., still not a whiz, hunt and peck typist.. bitmore up to date. I
Pad pad user now, still bloody slow user. I guess left of centre love the Du site.have to get the wife to rent my membership., today .to all the old timers hang in there.

At one time I was able to claim I easily knew over 100 DUers in real life. Some aren’t on here any more, some have passed, many changed their names and now I don’t know if I know who I’m talking to anymore. But the meetups were really great and I made one very good friend in the process.

Came back in 2022. I was more aggressive back then. Kinda mellow now except when discussing “them.” You know, those who don’t understand the value of liberty and Justice for all.

I wanted to get an idea how many younger people were here. It appears the answer is: Not many.

In nine weeks. Glad to be here wherever here is.

before that. I've come a long way. Love DU.

fuss of it anymore, but very much appreciated. 😁

female OVER 50, approaching 130,000 posts, member since March 10 2004!

Maybe we’ll hear from them tomorrow

…when they should be busy making the boss richer.

Older than dirt and feeling every day of it.

I used to think people my age were all dead.

I'm so old I don't remember my age.

So, does this mean there are likely to be significant cultural, experiential, and ideological differences between people in their 20s and people in their 30s, between people in their 30s and people in their 40s, and between all those groups and people "over 50", but generally people "over 50" are pretty much of a muchness?

As in, just... you know... OLD?

So it's important to recognize, understand and consider differences between those in their 20s, 30s, and 40s, but it's fine to just lump everyone over 50 together and assume they're all pretty much homogeneous, except possibly for minor differences based on gender?

I think there may be a flaw in your poll methodology.

If what you want to know is "how much of DU's active survey-responding readership is over 50, broken out by two specific genders" (I guess non-binary folk are... what... ?), you could make the survey shorter by just asking "Who's male and under 50?", "Who's female and under 50?", "Who's male and over 50?", and "Who's female and over 50?". That might get you a little more credibility among those of us in the four decade-cohorts 50 and over who are really quite non-homogeneous and not always happy about being relegated to the generic "old" category.

Maybe next poll?

helpfully,
Bright

…of our similarities and differences. I think most of us do.

I was simply curious about the breakdown of the people under 50.

Do you mean to say that there is no uniformly held set of beliefs and moral standards that we all ascribe to upon hitting 50? I'd swear the manual said something about achieving homogeneity by 35...or was that Logan's Run?

I think this may not be the right audience for polling the 20-30-something demographic.

Now I'm 59.

Unlike the poster directly above mine, I'm not at all insulted by this poll.

We are not getting out enough on Saturday nights.

before that I was asleep....

That was the extent of my 'getting out on Saturday night'!


LOL

Originally found DU via Truthout.

You stop at 50's. Why? DU has a huge amount of members in their 60's, 70's, 80's, and even a few in their 90's. I'm 50 and I don't think my group should be last.

I was more curious about who isn’t here.

I just wish that I was a year younger so I wouldn't have to be in the last group. I'm also curious as to how many are over 80.

That is all

I translate the message to we ….need fewer old people. I’m not actually certain how we were let out of the house after the initial Covid shockwave! I do know my local League of Women Voters members are registering young people every week at the local High Schools!

Thanks

my kiddos would only see it if you acted your post out in video & put it up on Tik Tok!

I’ve been on this site since I was 19 in 2003.