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Re: age of lugnuts
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lugnet.people
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Mon, 14 Feb 2000 23:20:19 GMT
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In lugnet.people, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Jonathan McKay writes:
> > I was just wondering how old lugnuts are.
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> I wonder that myself -- Quite a bit! :) It's difficult if not impossible
> to know the ages of everyone out there (web users, casual news users, etc.)
> but one thing we know for sure is that the average age of lifetime members
> is 30.3 at this point. (I'll give some more detailed histograms later.)
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> On the other hand, if you look at the average age of all the people who have
> filled out the Fibblesnork LEGO Survey,
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> http://www.lugnet.com/fibblesnork/lego/guide/survey/
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> the average age there is something like approximately 16 or 17 years old,
> with *quite* a few people younger than that.
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> > I myself am twelve but I get the impression most of the lugnet readers are
> > older than that.
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> I don't know about all of the readers, but ya I think most of the writers
> (posters) are a noticably older, on average. Yet, over the past 6 months it
> seems that the number of people under the age of ~16 has been on the rise
> more than any other noticable demographic segment.
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> Jonathan, do you feel comfortable here? Made any net friends? Or is this
> place pretty lonely for the younger crowd?
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> Originally, when the LUGNET newsgroups went up in 1998, a concentrated effort
> was made to attract adults much more than teens or children -- for a various
> number of reasons. It's always been part of the LUGNET Plan, of course, to
> appeal to audiences of all ages, gradually moving toward the younger range
> over time as the culture and customs of the community get settled in.
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> Do you think the younger crowd here might benefit from a kids-specific group?
> Part of the reason that the lugnet.people group was created as a top-level
> group is to allow for future expansion possibilities, for example:
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> lugnet.people.kids
> lugnet.people.teens
> lugnet.people.parents
> etc.
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> I can even imagine (someday) "moral support groups" for NLSOs of AFOLs -- and
> vice-versa -- or for JFOLs with NLPs.
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> Any thoughts are welcome!
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> --Todd
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> [followups to lugnet.people]
Actually, all lunuts are ageless. Only the abs gets older.
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