[vonunov]

Yeah, we kind of had a thing about that, you know? There was, like, a whole site called "School Survival" with a pretty active forum where our entire point at the end of the day was "we can do that too" / "we can do that better" / "we could do that but you already tested it out for us, thanks". I wonder if there's some kind of "Abilene problem" happening because it's hard to imagine anyone caring in such a broad sense whether teenagers read what the adults are reading.

I was 14-15 in 2004-2005. My drug of choice was the never-ending 24/7 user-led trivia game (with "name the song/artist" questions on voice chat) in the Trivia Madness!:1 room on Yahoo Chat, and they all thought I was an adult for like a year, until it came up organically. It was funny seeing them all shocked and whatnot, but I can't say there's much to gain from letting people know you're 14 on the internet. They're not going to be all like, "Oh, well, I guess 14-year-olds aren't always total morons, huh?" They're just going to start treating you like you're half a moron.

So I think that if they're doing it right, then ideally we don't notice.