How old are (were) you as of Jan 09, 2011?

"Gerontation" = shorthand for "Geritol nation."

damn fellas we officially have an aging population a la europe or a small town in japan.

where is the new blood!

yeah kinda surprised at the low # of college age posters

a good thing imo. if yr in college u shd be out there in wavy line the world wavy line imo, not debating sitcoms and posting pics of actresses with a bunch of old bloggers.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/41/109772077_fec0a2c4de_z.jpg?zz=1

Ah, the old Wavy Line shops, they all gone / shut now.

36.

13-19: 11
20-24: 23
25-29: 55
30-34: 66
35-39: 49
40-44: 21
45-49: 16
50-54: 7
55-59: 2
60-64: 4

In January 2008 I was in the largest ILX age bracket (28), interesting to see if that is still true... Are all those people born in 1979 still around, or have they dropped off and been replaced by young whippersnappers?

― Tuomas, Monday, February 21, 2011 12:53 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Seems like my first guess was true. I'm still in the largest bracket, ILX is aging with me. :)

31, FTW

largest bracket = common, right?

a good thing imo. if yr in college u shd be out there in wavy line the world wavy line imo, not debating sitcoms and posting pics of actresses with a bunch of old bloggers.

― this odyssey that refuses to quit calling itself (history mayne), Tuesday, March 1, 2011 4:38 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

i still get a fair bit of ~the world~ in in between ilx & studying but sometimes when i'm on too much it really gets to me and i get to feeling like one day i will look back at my youth and be overcome w/ regret. also prob a lot of college students are just on other lame forums & some of them are shy or not that interested in ~the world~

http://i.imgur.com/6T0Dw.jpg

same graph w/ 3 added to the 2008 numbers, interesting how closely some individual peaks/troughs match.

this doesn't 100% imply that ilx has a constant group of users, could also just mean that when people leave they're quite likely to be replaced w/ similar aged users and not teenagers. but I do think you can look at this and think that there's a decent amount of stability in the group of people here. I feel like 31 year olds should consider themselves keepers of the torch.

pleased to see i'm roughly in the middle.

I think that this is the right thread to confess to--I'm 40, not 42. I changed my birthdate because I wanted to obscure some of the ties to my real name; I was going to lie to everyone about some other things but never got around to it. (Everything else is true. I swear.)

I've been on discussion boards since 1989 and here (thanks to rockcritics.com) since 2001.

i've been alive since 1989

you say tomato

I don't believe there are really 4 13-year-olds on ILX.

I am a 52-year-old siamese quadruplet.

I think it's safe to assume that the tail ends of the blue line are jokes

where's Aja?

No one knows.

Aja was reabsorbed into her progenitor.

The ILX poster Aja, yes. (I don't believe either that she posted anything that appeared under her name.) The real Aja, I have no idea.

i am 34, but soon 35.

hey me too!

Now there are 5 (presently anonymous) folks who claim to be older than 56.

I can't remember if I participated in this poll or not (Cue memory joke....) I'm 52.

http://www.kelleytown.com/images/Simpsons/HansMoleman.jpg