What age group do you socialize with?

[NoJo]

I find myself socializing with people in their early 30's, more than with my own age group (40's). My brother, only a few years older than me, has a lot of friends in their 60's.

How common is it, to spend a lot of time with people who are not in your age group?

 

[CharleyH]

How common is it, to spend a lot of time with people who are not in your age group?

I hang with the over 18, but under 30 crowd apparently. However, I do have friends who are in their 40's.

Since you and I are the only samples at the moment, it seems pretty common.

 

[Guest]

I find myself socializing with people in their early 30's, more than with my own age group (40's). My brother, only a few years older than me, has a lot of friends in their 60's.

How common is it, to spend a lot of time with people who are not in your age group?

Odd that. I tend to socialise with people in their 40's. All my best mates seem to be in their 40's, or older. Don't have a clue why that is. I know I like older men. Younger men have never done it for me, or really those in my own age group. I don't socialise with many women, but those I do tend to be older. I think I can't be doing with the insecurities of youth. I like talking to, and having a laugh with, people who don't have any hang-ups. I might get flamed for that, but hey! It was a generalisation.

 

[Samandiriel]

I tend to be surrounded mainly by youngsters...not to many my age which is fine by me, the young ones are more fun.

 

[tolyk]

Odd that. I tend to socialise with people in their 40's. All my best mates seem to be in their 40's, or older. Don't have a clue why that is. I know I like older men. Younger men have never done it for me, or really those in my own age group. I don't socialise with many women, but those I do tend to be older. I think I can't be doing with the insecurities of youth. I like talking to, and having a laugh with, people who don't have any hang-ups. I might get flamed for that, but hey! It was a generalisation.

My hopes and dreams shattered.. thanks a lot Lou..


As for the question, it varies, definitely depending on where I'm living at the time. I was held back a grade early on in school, so I was older than most of my classmates. I'm used to being the older one in the group, but then I got to high school, and started hanging out with my brothers friends (they all liked me better I didn't punch.. heh)

As I said, it varies. I have friends older and younger, and there is good qualities in each.

 

[Sabledrake]

My core group of friends are all about my age, give or take 7 years (I turn 38 next week). But I'm a gamer and spend a lot of time at cons with late-teens-early-twentysomethings.

And ... and holy crap ... where were all these adorable gamer boys when I was that age? I mean, give a dirty old woman a break! Slim blond elfboys in green cloaks, pale brunette gothboys all sad-eyed and vulnerable, muscular long-haired fighterboys in swashbuckler outfits, burly Klingonboys ...

I spent a good portion of one past con talking to a kid about his writing, and thinking to myself, "if I squint a little, he looks like Johnny Depp's baby brother ... and I bet if I took my glasses off ... or if it was dim lighting ..."

I'm so going to hell. I tell ya.

-- Sabledrake

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

I don't get to hang with anyone in RL, so my answer to this question probably won't seem valid.

My best friend (who lives on the other side of the U.S.) is in her 40s. My other best friend (who also lives on the other side of the U.S.) is my age.

 

[tolyk]

I've been a gamer for most of my cognative life Out of all the groups I've been in, I've only ever gamed with two women. I've never been to a con.. Would like too some day.. I'm not a blond elfboy though

 

[Just-Legal]

Heh, I'm a gamer girl, I'll take ya Tolyk. Cons are ace!

I hang around mostly with older men. I only have two close female friends, and we're like a triad, and I'm the baby of the group, LOL!

Having said that, I'm more mature than my age, or so I've been told. I can still act like a kid occasionally, but who doesn't?

 

[cantdog]

My friends, my close friends, are in two groups. One my age or a tad older or younger, and one my daughter's age, again with variance. Just the luck of the draw, really. Whom does one meet?

 

[tolyk]

Heh, I'm a gamer girl, I'll take ya Tolyk. Cons are ace!

I hang around mostly with older men. I only have two close female friends, and we're like a triad, and I'm the baby of the group, LOL!

Having said that, I'm more mature than my age, or so I've been told. I can still act like a kid occasionally, but who doesn't?

There is a difference between serious and mature Anyone who doesn't let loose and have fun every now and then is a serious person.. Doesn't mean they are mature.. most just hide their immaturities behind their seriousness.. It's a fault (I used to be like that)

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Who socializes?

Rumple "the recluse" Foreskin

 

[rgraham666]

Very few people I socialize with.

Having stopped to think about it, they cover a very wide range, the youngest would be about 28, the oldest 54.

I don't care about age, it's attitude that does it for me. Much like the AHers, my friends share a certain perspective from other people, a perspective deeper, more humourous and more serious than the public at large, in my opinion.

 

[hmmnmm]

Who socializes?

Rumple "the recluse" Foreskin

That's a more elegant way of saying what I was going to say.

 

[neonlyte]

Socialise with people my age 50's, though increasingly younger folk, mainly Arts people, seem to appear on the scene. I always tend to work with younger people, some kind of blind prejudice, all the team involved in my building projects are 20 years, or more, younger.

 

[Joe Wordsworth]

I may be a gamer--but only a little bit and I rarely bring it up in polite conversation.

 

[Guest]

I may be a gamer--but only a little bit and I rarely bring it up in polite conversation.

That made me grin.

 

[Guest]

 

[matriarch]

Never really thought about it, but I guess almost all of the people I socialise with are all younger than me, some of them younger than my own children. I seem to get on well with most ages, but especially with the young'uns. My sons friends are all happy to have me join in their fun when I'm around....which I find very complimentary.

That said, I am just as comfortable with older people,my own age group, 50's.

On reflection, I don't think age has anything to do with it. Its the level of maturity exhibited by the person that will draw me to them. I can't cope with childishness (different to childlike) and spiteful immaturity. If I can have a reasonable conversation with the person, share a joke, enjoy their company, I don't give a toss what age they are.

'Auntie'

 

[sweetnpetite]

My core group of friends are all about my age, give or take 7 years (I turn 38 next week). But I'm a gamer and spend a lot of time at cons with late-teens-early-twentysomethings.

And ... and holy crap ... where were all these adorable gamer boys when I was that age? I mean, give a dirty old woman a break! Slim blond elfboys in green cloaks, pale brunette gothboys all sad-eyed and vulnerable, muscular long-haired fighterboys in swashbuckler outfits, burly Klingonboys ...

I spent a good portion of one past con talking to a kid about his writing, and thinking to myself, "if I squint a little, he looks like Johnny Depp's baby brother ... and I bet if I took my glasses off ... or if it was dim lighting ..."

I'm so going to hell. I tell ya.

-- Sabledrake

running off to read your stuff!

Do you have any stories like what you described above? That certainly heat up the temperature in my chair! If not, please get down to writing some.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Mostly mid- to late-twenties. My brother is 4 years older, and we always shared many friends, and I also skipped a grade along the path, so I tended to hangout with people that bit older than me.

 

[Liar]

I had to stop and think, because I haven't really reflected on the age of my circle of friends. But it seems like they are mostly my age, give or take a decade.

 

[yui]

I like people and I like to think I can blend in with any group when I want to; however, my "best friends" are within a couple of years of my age.

 

[wishfulthinking]

I never really think about age. [perhaps a twinge of denial ]

My best friends are my age - 3 are even the same month as me - but not because we went to school together or anything, we met later.

But mostly early to mid-to late 20's. But it isn't age, more shared interests and outlooks.

 

[Dar~]

I hang around with people mostly my age. When I look back though until I married and we joined the military, I socialized with people older than me. I was always the baby in the group.
Now that I am a mom, the demographics of my friends is more important to my friendships than anything else. I find that the people I am closest too are in te same stages of life that I am.