• Virtvirt588@lemmy.world
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    3 天前

    Maybe youre right, maybe you’re not. Its probably more so about the shared interests rather than the inherent age.

    The thing is, those that are of similar age may have a higher probability of similar interests than those with higher deviation from your age.

    • CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world
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      I don’t think so, I think age inherently adds context to what you know/are interested in and there absolutely is a point where contextually speaking you’re no longer peers, you can definitely still be friendly/friends but it feels different from being friends with a person who shares the same context to your interests. I was recently talking to a young man about music and he’s into pop-punk, the same genre I was into when I was in highschool, and I was talking to him about all the influences I heard from those bands in the music he listens to and he couldn’t share that insight, not that it wasn’t an interesting conversation but it felt more like I was in a mentor position teaching him about his interest rather that equally sharing and exploring the interest. I think in depth knowledge can make up this gap and erase the age factor but in general the context around the interest does change and does matter when it comes to connecting