Older woman here, and do not discount us old farts...my facebook account has been suspended for profanity..

Can you speak louder I CAN'T HEAR THAT WELL?

There's a mix here @Krystal_H look around and don't be so fucking judgemental.

" ... there are a lot of old people on this site ... "

Umm ... how "old" is old, whippersnapper?

Dang ... mah dentures popped raht outen mah mouf when I read this 'n'. Let me tell ya sumpin 'bout us old folks, kiddo. If you hang out with us you might just learn something that will give you a slight advantage over those other inexperienced, unlearned, unwashed heathen youngsters out there. Might even keep you out of trouble or give you some tips on how to get out of it when you have to. There is nothing like talking to those 'been-there-done-thats' when it comes to getting useful information and avoiding learning things the hard way.

you can get more points and get to higher levels faster if you recruit people to the site

Who you calling OLD?

Actually I have been impressed by the presence of younger age groups here, reflecting growing secularism in younger generations. I totally welcome that. Younger generations are always the hope of the future. I get frustrated when I see so many in my age profile (generally, not here on this site) who are so reactionary conservative and support bigoted politicians and parties and policies. What happened to you people? I often ask myself. People born in the 50s and 60s shouldn't have turned into right wing trogs as they got older. Be like Bernie Sanders.

Good because I am not into millennials but You Must Define To Us..."OLD".

Hey thanks Krystal, I didnt think i was an old person till now LOL

Who you callin ‘old?’ Don’t you know that ‘old’s the new middle-aged’ My daughters laugh at facebook … we’re not even ‘friends.’ Snapchat & Instagram are their platforms, I think..

I feel those ‘your age’ are surrounded by like-minded age-related friends. As you’re forced deeper into society you’ll lose track of those friends and likey learn the oppression and intimidation of religion, assuming you were fortunate enough not to have grown up amid it.

For me, I’ve been impressed at the number of youngsters! - and women! Crap, when I first became active with Atheists you’d show up at ‘a meeting’ to 95% men ..most older than I was.. Well, if you’re concerned with a social evolution away from religion - enjoy the company of those having led the charge ~

What? I'm in the 1980s to 1999 range (1994) So I'm 23 at the moment. There does seem to be a strange age jump in open atheism from lesser than >15 and greater than 30. Though I suspect most of my generation is non-religious. There is the possibility of never coming across the site or figuring they have enough friends already.

older people have time for more wisdom. it's not young men who send the old to war to die.

they havent heard of the site yet?

I'm 57. I'm not offended at being referred to as "old" so, I'll answer this as honestly as I can given that there isn't a definitive reason for it.

My generation is full of the IT guys that (25 years ago) were building the Internet and the tools that you use to access it. We're very active on social media everywhere.

And, as far as your observation that my generation on Facebook and Twitter tend to be religious and/or conservative, you're just mistaken. The vast majority of my friends on my social media accounts are like minded with me. Most of them are pretty liberal.

This place is still pretty new from what I understand. Given more time, I'm sure you will find many more of your kind on here. Have you invited any?

Sorry Krystal, to make you feel you've wandered into the "brain gymnastic for the elderly" or something. My daughters are too busy to spend time here. They'd be more your age. And a lot of young men are too busy playing computer games.

Maybe it's because us old atheists and agnostics have lived in a world seemingly dominated by religious people longer and learned how to cope with them quietly. Also, I believe that for most people, becoming an agnostic or atheists is a long process involving both unlearning some things and finding a solid basis for not believing.

We've had more time to consider things..

I'm not sure millenials can afford access to the internet, what with all their student loans and low pay.

This was an entertaining read lol.

I don't think this site is marketing itself to that crowd

Not exactly sure what age is from my perspective maturity outweigh age by megatons.

Old age brings the following:

• fading senses. Like - ALL of them.
• bad short term memory
• justified crankiness
• less ego, ironically
• perhaps some wisdom thanks to life experience

Millenials are characterized as self absorbed entitled spoiled shits raised by helicopter parents who wanted their children to be their buddies. I don't know you, so I'm certainly not applying that description to you, but I have a shitload of nieces and nephews that fit it to a tee.

I think us millennials struggle to figure out what makes them different. It's only when you know what to look for you come here. My hypothesis anyway. But I've just got a thing for old people so what do i know...

Whoa... no old people here... some just a tad older... kidding.
Thats a curious question, why would you expect atheist/agnostics/skeptics to be youthful?
On occasion, age brings wisdom, or so we think... we’ve been questioning “things” our whole lives, especially the Bible, Jesus, the whole megellah... years later guys like Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris come along, tell us we were right in not buying into the religion crap.
We were 30/40 years calling religion bullshit... so I guess we were in the “head start program” for athiests, you’re just newbies... don’t worry, you’ll catch up... n get old.