... I mean, I can see why you wouldn't.
My children are now adults, and ancient ones at that, they no longer live with us and have not lived with us for many years, but they were aware of my presence on AnswerBag or AnswerMug either back in their late teens or early twenties. I showed them certain questions and answers and comments, but they didn’t seem to develop continued interest in the website. I can’t remember if it was in the AnswerBag days (2009 to 2014) or the AnswerMug days (2015 and later), but it was a period when everything one’s parents do is old-fashioned and grody, so they wanted no parts of it, would not touch it with a ten-foot pole. They had their own online preferences, things that I probably would not touch with a ten-foot pole. I have no idea if they ever scan AnswerMug as non-members, have joined the website, or even if they remember my username; if they do know what it is, they can read everything I write. If that’s the case, let’s just say that . . .
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I have two three-year olds and a two-month old, so no. The only part of the internet I show them is learning websites for kids.
I have one family member on here, but other than her, I haven’t told most of my family about Answermug.
My husband tried Answermug for a little bit, but he got bored and left right away. That’s his MO with social sites. The only social site that ever held his attention was EP.
If I told my mom about this website, it would just turn into us arguing about religion in each other’s posts.
If I told my cousin Jenny about this site, she would ask tons of questions daily, but they would all be left wing political stuff. She would also hijack every single post and make it about politics. Now that Trump’s out of office, she probably has a lot less stuff to talk about.
If I told my cousin Bobby about this site, he would pick a screenname like Spanky, and all of his questions would be about spanking. That’s because he was spanked as a child and he turned out just fine. That’s what he tells everyone, at least.
My Uncle Bob would probably make the worst impression but it probably wouldn’t take very long for him to get banned anyway. All of his questions would be anti-LGBTQIA stuff and anti-Muslim stuff.
Sometimes, it’s just a good thing to keep the sites you visit private.
This post was edited by Livvie at May 23, 2021 5:29 AM MDT
I heard on the radio yesterday that a large majority of ‘Linnials (more than 75% of them, if I remember correctly) consider TikTok to be their #1 source for news.
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