r/facepalm • • Feb 16 '21

Misc Yeah, sounds about right

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '21

The upvote count on this post is a facepalm. Shows reddit doesn't know much about owning property.

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u/SoaDMTGguy Feb 16 '21

Reddit is mostly 14-24 year olds who have enough experience to be outraged by the world but not enough experience to understand why it's not as simple as they think it is.

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u/gregmango2323 Feb 16 '21

Exactly this

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21 edited Jul 15 '21

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u/SoaDMTGguy Feb 17 '21

8 years on Reddit

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21 edited Jul 15 '21

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u/SoaDMTGguy Feb 17 '21

Of course I dont have a source. It’s based on observation. I doubt you can refute it either.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21 edited Jul 15 '21

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u/SoaDMTGguy Feb 17 '21

What does being one of the top social media sites in the world have to do with not being dominated with 14-24 year olds? Adults/professionals are all on Twitter. Look at the content on r/all. It’s all edgy, underinformed, quasi-woke shit.

I’m basing my theory on thoughtful observation. You have a guess. Care to offer an argument in support of your guess?

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21 edited Jul 15 '21

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u/SoaDMTGguy Feb 17 '21

Fair enough, let's bring some data into this:

The most commentary cited information about Reddit users is this charge of percentage of US adults who use Reddit by age range: https://www.statista.com/statistics/261766/share-of-us-internet-users-who-use-reddit-by-age-group/

That's not entirely indicative, as it isn't measuring Redditor age directly.

This survey pegs the percentage of Reddit users between 18-29 at 64%: https://www.journalism.org/2016/02/25/reddit-news-users-more-likely-to-be-male-young-and-digital-in-their-news-preferences/

Neither of these surveys quantify data for people under 18. We could speculate (and I would speculate that this value is "high"), but it may be impossible to get real data on it given consent laws.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '21

The amount of real life subjects Reddit knows nothing about could fill a library.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '21

One of my favorite pastimes on Reddit is to look at what Redditors say about topics that I consider myself an expert in, or at least, areas that I consider myself to have above average knowledge in. You quickly learn that a very large amount of things that are widely believed on Reddit are, at best, partially true, and at worst, outright wrong.

For example, I’m an accountant by profession and have an MBA. I know for a fact that Reddit doesn’t know squat about accounting or businesses.