What do you think of adults on tsr?
I feel like me being 20 is okay on this site, because it's for students right? What about older adults though. Like 30,40,50 year olds? Especially when they joined at that age. Is it weird?
Plus why are they even on.
Plus why are they even on.
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Perhaps to help students by providing experience on how to get to the jobs they wish to get?
How do you think people get jobs or understanding of jobs (such as people not understanding that some jobs are not as glamorous as they appear) without the aid of people in the field, regardless of age?
How do you think people get jobs or understanding of jobs (such as people not understanding that some jobs are not as glamorous as they appear) without the aid of people in the field, regardless of age?
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Original post by Scienceisgood
Perhaps to help students by providing experience on how to get to the jobs they wish to get?
How do you think people get jobs or understanding of jobs (such as people not understanding that some jobs are not as glamorous as they appear) without the aid of people in the field, regardless of age?
How do you think people get jobs or understanding of jobs (such as people not understanding that some jobs are not as glamorous as they appear) without the aid of people in the field, regardless of age?
Fair enough. I've seen some very helpful adults on tsr who posted about the army or about jobs etc. And that would explain why older adults join.
I suppose what I'm referring to is the adults who frequent the relationship forum in general.
I know someone on here who got pm'med by one of these last year and he didn't realise until later that this guy was 40 woth a family. I'm not trying to say it's innapropriate - I talk to older people all the time as I find them interesting, but talking to them on here does feel a bit strange to me, maybe because it's online. Idk.
According to my friend the convos were all about planes and stuff as they were both massive fans. It's just the idea that the guy was as old as my friend's parents, who didn't know about the convos, and that just gives me a bad gut feeling. And that in turn makes me guilty because it's unfair to label older people as predators etc.
Original post by Anonymous
According to my friend the convos were all about planes and stuff as they were both massive fans. It's just the idea that the guy was as old as my friend's parents, who didn't know about the convos, and that just gives me a bad gut feeling. And that in turn makes me guilty because it's unfair to label older people as predators etc.
The idea behind talking online is you don’t judge people and don’t give out personal information regarding your age or anything regardless. It leaves you on level footing without the idea of any information about the person, irrespective of anything about them minus their interests.
When someone begins working in industry, you’ll work with people your age or people 40 years older than yourself, it’s inevitable.
I spend my time on TSR at times either looking out of boredom (albeit this year, I have not been bored at all, too busy to be bored) or helping people understand my field and how to get into the career (Biomedical Science I.e the course of Biomedical Science or being a Biomedical Scientist itself). That being said, I don’t post anything about myself, nor ask information of others unless it is apparent that it is needed and even then, I explicitly say it is advice (depending on the circumstances) and any further information not provided or they don’t wish to provide should be taken into account to. For all everyone knows on here, I could be in my 20s, 30s, 40s or even my 60s or 70s. Irrespective of aid or advice given.
I am assuming you are on the younger side (either a teenager or early to late 20s, not asking for info, making an assumption) but having access to a wide variety of age brackets gives you access to information you would either not have experienced or not have access to at all as simply, you don’t have access to that kind of information I.e you’ve been out of school for years and are not in contact with your teachers.
One example being I am the only scientist in my family and so, if I want help or assistance, I need to gain access to people online for help outside of my family for assistance or advice of certain aspects.
Original post by Scienceisgood
The idea behind talking online is you don’t judge people and don’t give out personal information regarding your age or anything regardless. It leaves you on level footing without the idea of any information about the person, irrespective of anything about them minus their interests.
When someone begins working in industry, you’ll work with people your age or people 40 years older than yourself, it’s inevitable.
I spend my time on TSR at times either looking out of boredom (albeit this year, I have not been bored at all, too busy to be bored) or helping people understand my field and how to get into the career (Biomedical Science I.e the course of Biomedical Science or being a Biomedical Scientist itself). That being said, I don’t post anything about myself, nor ask information of others unless it is apparent that it is needed and even then, I explicitly say it is advice (depending on the circumstances) and any further information not provided or they don’t wish to provide should be taken into account to. For all everyone knows on here, I could be in my 20s, 30s, 40s or even my 60s or 70s. Irrespective of aid or advice given.
I am assuming you are on the younger side (either a teenager or early to late 20s, not asking for info, making an assumption) but having access to a wide variety of age brackets gives you access to information you would either not have experienced or not have access to at all as simply, you don’t have access to that kind of information I.e you’ve been out of school for years and are not in contact with your teachers.
One example being I am the only scientist in my family and so, if I want help or assistance, I need to gain access to people online for help outside of my family for assistance or advice of certain aspects.
When someone begins working in industry, you’ll work with people your age or people 40 years older than yourself, it’s inevitable.
I spend my time on TSR at times either looking out of boredom (albeit this year, I have not been bored at all, too busy to be bored) or helping people understand my field and how to get into the career (Biomedical Science I.e the course of Biomedical Science or being a Biomedical Scientist itself). That being said, I don’t post anything about myself, nor ask information of others unless it is apparent that it is needed and even then, I explicitly say it is advice (depending on the circumstances) and any further information not provided or they don’t wish to provide should be taken into account to. For all everyone knows on here, I could be in my 20s, 30s, 40s or even my 60s or 70s. Irrespective of aid or advice given.
I am assuming you are on the younger side (either a teenager or early to late 20s, not asking for info, making an assumption) but having access to a wide variety of age brackets gives you access to information you would either not have experienced or not have access to at all as simply, you don’t have access to that kind of information I.e you’ve been out of school for years and are not in contact with your teachers.
One example being I am the only scientist in my family and so, if I want help or assistance, I need to gain access to people online for help outside of my family for assistance or advice of certain aspects.
Thank you for this. I understand why someone would want to do this now. And I do appreciate help I've been given by older tsr users. I feel like my OP was a bit accusatory, I really just wanted to know why adult users decide to come on.
Assuming you had a child on tsr who was 18/19, would you see any problems with them chatting to someone your age (for arguments' sake pretend it's late 40s). About things friends would chat about?
I’d don’t se a problem with it some are mature students or work in the education system or are parents looking for help and advice and support about their kids applications or lack there of adults that have been to university are also useful they can give advice with the benefit of hindsight . They are an essential part of the community as afar as I’m concerned.
Original post by jonathanemptage
I’d don’t se a problem with it some are mature students or work in the education system or are parents looking for help and advice and support about their kids applications or lack there of adults that have been to university are also useful they can give advice with the benefit of hindsight . They are an essential part of the community as afar as I’m concerned.
I've realised that now, I didn't mean to come across as judgemental, I can see why they're important to this site.
Most adults used to be kids you know
Original post by BlackArrows
Most adults used to be kids you know
Lol 😂
You realise there are students who are 30, 40, 50 etc? Both at university and who may be returning to study at earlier levels (e.g. to achieve their functional skills maths/English, do an Access to HE course, etc).
I think your attitude to older learners is weird. I don't think older learners themselves are weird and I think they already face enough barriers and judgments in pursuing their intellectual and professional goals through education.
Even beyond that there are plenty of people who may want to use a forum such as this for its careers forums, or because they work in or around education (either within schools or universities) and therefore their experiences may be useful to students in those areas (young or old) and because it's relevant to their day to day work anyway.
I think your attitude to older learners is weird. I don't think older learners themselves are weird and I think they already face enough barriers and judgments in pursuing their intellectual and professional goals through education.
Even beyond that there are plenty of people who may want to use a forum such as this for its careers forums, or because they work in or around education (either within schools or universities) and therefore their experiences may be useful to students in those areas (young or old) and because it's relevant to their day to day work anyway.
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I'd say it depends on why they're on here, some just go on it to post on the relationships forum and I feel like it's a bit odd to be talking about your sex life especially at a site aimed at teenagers and young adults, however if you're a mature student then I think it's really cool that you're on here cause it's also interesting to here about their perspective.
Original post by -Nicole-
I'd say it depends on why they're on here, some just go on it to post on the relationships forum and I feel like it's a bit odd to be talking about your sex life especially at a site aimed at teenagers and young adults, however if you're a mature student then I think it's really cool that you're on here cause it's also interesting to here about their perspective.
A lot of people on the relationships forum are just...weird, regardless of age.
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Original post by -Nicole-
I'd say it depends on why they're on here, some just go on it to post on the relationships forum and I feel like it's a bit odd to be talking about your sex life especially at a site aimed at teenagers and young adults, however if you're a mature student then I think it's really cool that you're on here cause it's also interesting to here about their perspective.
The site isn't "aimed at teenagers and young adults", it's aimed at students of all ages - and yes university students often have weird and convoluted sex lives they wish to get advice on. Also not infrequently the school students will be asking about their own relationships for better or worse...
In that context the question should be "why does a student forum need a relationships forum" rather than "why should older learners use a student forum".
Original post by artful_lounger
The site isn't "aimed at teenagers and young adults", it's aimed at students of all ages - and yes university students often have weird and convoluted sex lives they wish to get advice on. Also not infrequently the school students will be asking about their own relationships for better or worse...
In that context the question should be "why does a student forum need a relationships forum" rather than "why should older learners use a student forum".
In that context the question should be "why does a student forum need a relationships forum" rather than "why should older learners use a student forum".
Well I think that's totally fair, I'm quite bad at wording sometimes but I meant more that the majority of people I see on here are relatively young, so I'd personally feel a bit odd talking about that on here, but I suppose that might just be personal preference. But yeah, I think that'd be a better question.
Original post by QUOTE=Anonymous
Thank you for this. I understand why someone would want to do this now. And I do appreciate help I've been given by older tsr users. I feel like my OP was a bit accusatory, I really just wanted to know why adult users decide to come on.
Assuming you had a child on tsr who was 18/19, would you see any problems with them chatting to someone your age (for arguments' sake pretend it's late 40s). About things friends would chat about?
Assuming you had a child on tsr who was 18/19, would you see any problems with them chatting to someone your age (for arguments' sake pretend it's late 40s). About things friends would chat about?
I’m not as old as you think by the sounds of it but still, I’m a millennial (quite a bit closer to Gen Z though using year of birth) and I’ll leave it at that. 😂
If I have a child (doubtful tbh as my sexual orientation doesn’t exactly come hand in hand with making children) but if I did (even adopted), I would put it bluntly to not put yourself online and if you do, keep it very simple. I.e your age and country (not things like county, school etc…) and that’s about it. That way, your limiting it to maybe about 1m people… so no chance of finding anything out about them. Also, explicitly absolutely no video chats or phone numbers exchanged and if they want to use social media to communicate, have one for friends and another for randos who they could block (I don’t know if this is too much but it’s what I would do).
Anyway, I would not have a problem discussing common interests at all as it would encourage healthy communication (depending on what the interest was obviously). Depending on how long they “knew” the person online, I would suggest if they wanted to do a common meet-up for the first time or whatever, do so in a VERY public place such as a McDonalds as there have been times where I’ve met up with people I’ve met in town once or twice but don’t take people at face value (I’m a cautious person) and so, until I feel like I am comfortable meeting someone, I will always do it in a public place so it’s not too weird sounding my end either, say a park sounds very strange but a public shopping centre which is always busy, not so much.
I’ll admit, as an example of one meet-up that happened this year. I graduated from uni six years ago and went back to uni this year to do my MSc to help myself get a chance at a better job as I’ve learned in the last few years in my career, masters do make life a lot easier for promotions.
Anyway, I was out and met someone who had just started their first year at uni, I'll admit I am about 10 years older than them or so (he was new to Bristol and I knew the city for many years, so knew my way around), so I knew said person would automatically find it potentially a bit daunting but I’ll admit they started up a conversation, not me so perhaps I came across more inviting or something to them, I don’t know.
We’ve met up a few times in the year and kept in a few conversations online as it was a common interest but in all honesty, I wouldn’t expect to do them too many more times as we live a VERY long distance from one another, but it’s one of those times where you do meet someone out of the blue.
Long story short, remember just to be cautious online and not to be too open with people who you don’t know, particularly if you’re just expanding your social circle.
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Original post by Anonymous
Thank you for this. I understand why someone would want to do this now. And I do appreciate help I've been given by older tsr users. I feel like my OP was a bit accusatory, I really just wanted to know why adult users decide to come on.
Assuming you had a child on tsr who was 18/19, would you see any problems with them chatting to someone your age (for arguments' sake pretend it's late 40s). About things friends would chat about?
Assuming you had a child on tsr who was 18/19, would you see any problems with them chatting to someone your age (for arguments' sake pretend it's late 40s). About things friends would chat about?
I'm not a parent, but I joined TSR when I was 15 (seems ages ago now
). As far as websites go TSR is probably one of the safer ones tbh. I just asked my parents on this actually (they knew about tsr when I joined as a volunteer a few years after I'd joined up), but I would generally tell them if I was unhappy or was worried about something if I'd seen anything online, but I keep my social media sites locked down to people I know irl anyway. One of the things I like about forums is they're usually topic based, and forums generally have specific rules. Key advice is usually don't post any contact information, passwords or address details to keep yourself safe.
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I probably only find it weird when it’s parents posting on behalf of their children (in applicant threads for example or blogs) and it doesn’t really look like the children have been asked whether they are genuinely ok with that or not.
I’m not really bothered whether you’re an adult or child, there’s bigger issues I’ve got with this website and other online platforms in general.
I’m not really bothered whether you’re an adult or child, there’s bigger issues I’ve got with this website and other online platforms in general.
Original post by Anonymous
I feel like me being 20 is okay on this site, because it's for students right? What about older adults though. Like 30,40,50 year olds? Especially when they joined at that age. Is it weird?
Plus why are they even on.
Plus why are they even on.
PMing teens is a bit weird. i had one ask me if i were single 😨 help
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