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i'm so sick of the teeny bopper questions
Am I the only one in ADVICENATOR land that isn't a highschool student?
Every question that I read has to do with either a girl or boy in hs who has a relationship problem. I never see any adult questions. Does anyone know of any other sites like this that are more adult oriented?
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umm .. i dont think there is ani onther site ... well i had some adult questions asked but there isnt a lot !! well hope i helped !!
♥ Samra
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Haha, you do have a point. I'm a young teen myself (13) and I know that most of my peers ask very stupid questions and often use irritating chatspeak or stick caps.
Personally, it ticks me off too, and I should be used to it. The majority of people who tend to ask for advice are teens because they tend to make big deals out of little problems and have (for some reason) a hard time figuring out which questions have OBVIOUS answers and don't even need to be asked.
If you want to answer adult questions, go on the search page and find the box that has "questions asked my adults" or whatever it says. If you don't want annoying people who have no idea what they're talking about answering your questions, say so, because people don't tend to answer if they think they might get a low rating. Remember, not everyone here is bad at giving advice/asking for advice, and there's always those couple wise people who end up really helping you. There's one person who's in my favorites, if you want to check out his column. Good luck finding a new site, and I hope it doesn't get invaded. Heh.
!~*becca*~!
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Actually .. there are a lot of adult questions. Advicenators was made to get and give advice to people who have problems. These are our problems. We all want help and it just so happens that a lot of us are teenagers. Also .. teens are more likley to surf the net and find this site than adults...
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I'm way out of high school and tend to read and respond to the relationship questions more because as a female it seems we suffer/ feel almost all the same emotions and frustrations no matter what the age.
At 36 I dated this great guy for about 3 months and I was dumped. I swear it was just as torturous as when I was 16 and broken hearted. But I walked away like a lady and 4 years later this wonderful guy came back into my life. It didn't work the first time because of his demanding schedule/travel 25 days out of 30! and that he's a workaholic. Now his job position has changed and we just got a puppy.
As to your question though... I offer advice to some of the teens because I remember what it was like and can tell them it'll all be different in 5 years or 10 years. I do, however, prefer to reply to questions that are clearly written, and you could say, grammatically correct. Not fancy, but someone who will understand the difference between advice and criticisms and is genuinely seeking advice with an open mind.
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You almost caused me to have an existentional crisis as I realised I only have two months left of being a teenager.
To actually make a point: no, you aren't the only one who has successfully navigated high school already. And yes, lots of us do occassionaly get irritated or cringe at the "theres this boy from maths I think he likes me what shold I do?" questions we get a plethora of, but it usually passes. Yes, younger users sometimes ask bad questions, but so do older users - I'm pretty sure we get awful questions from accross the spectrum of question-askers. The best thing to do is be tolerant of it and just skim until you find something engaging that you'd like to answer.
I don't know of any similar site, but if this bugs you a lot there's a useful feature on the search questions page ([Link](Mouse over link to see full location)) which allows you to see questions from users from only a certain age group, which should get rid of a good proportion of the questions you dislike.
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I'm unaware of any other website in relation to Advicenators that is geared more towards "adults". There are over 10,000 columnists here on Advicenators, and the majority of younger columnists massively exceeds the seniors. I know the abundance of questions submitted from teenagers is painfully apparent, but believe it or not, adults submit aswell. Perhaps more often than you'd assume. I just hope you stick around long enough to find out for yourself.. [:
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I know of no other site.
I am not a teen either. Believe it or not we have been getting questions from a few older people lately.
I really hope it does get to where we have people of all ages asking a lot of questions soon.
All we can do is give our best advice and hope that word spreads that we have something to offer everyone.
Good place to start is to try and get the advisers to spell like you aren't a grade schooler. Knock off the chat speak. No adult wants advice from someone who can't even spell.
And, my personal pet peeve, calling people honey and sweetie.
OK, got me to vent a little. Stick it out a little longer and hopefully we will get more variety. :)
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