Tumblr is kind of weird to me, period. I usually 'like' things that I would reblog except that I have some reason not to (like I just reblogged something similar or they're not fandom-y enough and I'm mostly posting fandom content). You can view a list of your likes, so they could also function as bookmarks.
Hah, yes, being 13 probably had a lot to do with it, if you told people that's how old you were.
Oh yes. I don't think I ever lied much unless I was clicking some automated "you must be 18 to..." message on a website. There are all these ridiculous usenet discussions (sadly archived) where I'm arguing that being 13 doesn't mean you can't appreciate quality entertainment, and Concerned Parents are freaking out about kiddies watching the X-Files. ...and then there was my one-woman crusade to convince the teenage girls of the internet that masturbation is awesome. /o\ That's probably all preserved for posterity too, though I haven't gone looking. I was pretty much a roving vortex of TMI on usenet.
I know what you mean about not wanting to be the one to educate other people's kids. Ha ha ha. But I think the main effect was less frustration (despite the occasional high-decible whining) and more that a lot of people just went where the porn was out in public (ffn, anime lists, big chunks of HP fandom, web pages instead of mailing lists) and made their own norms. I didn't know about the secretive parts of fandom, so to me, they didn't exist. And then I'll see people's comments on Fanlore and be like: "What? That's not how it was! I've never even heard of that list!" :D
Someone handed off an anime list to me at one point, and I promptly changed the minimum age to 16 since the entire list was lying about their ages. I'm pretty sure the original mods and I were among the only ones who were actually old enough. Too funny.
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Tumblr is kind of weird to me, period. I usually 'like' things that I would reblog except that I have some reason not to (like I just reblogged something similar or they're not fandom-y enough and I'm mostly posting fandom content). You can view a list of your likes, so they could also function as bookmarks.
Hah, yes, being 13 probably had a lot to do with it, if you told people that's how old you were.
Oh yes. I don't think I ever lied much unless I was clicking some automated "you must be 18 to..." message on a website. There are all these ridiculous usenet discussions (sadly archived) where I'm arguing that being 13 doesn't mean you can't appreciate quality entertainment, and Concerned Parents are freaking out about kiddies watching the X-Files. ...and then there was my one-woman crusade to convince the teenage girls of the internet that masturbation is awesome. /o\ That's probably all preserved for posterity too, though I haven't gone looking. I was pretty much a roving vortex of TMI on usenet.
I know what you mean about not wanting to be the one to educate other people's kids. Ha ha ha. But I think the main effect was less frustration (despite the occasional high-decible whining) and more that a lot of people just went where the porn was out in public (ffn, anime lists, big chunks of HP fandom, web pages instead of mailing lists) and made their own norms. I didn't know about the secretive parts of fandom, so to me, they didn't exist. And then I'll see people's comments on Fanlore and be like: "What? That's not how it was! I've never even heard of that list!" :D
Someone handed off an anime list to me at one point, and I promptly changed the minimum age to 16 since the entire list was lying about their ages. I'm pretty sure the original mods and I were among the only ones who were actually old enough. Too funny.