Age + Maturity

It depends, I'm certainly a lot more informal in person,
but typing like a fool makes you appear like a fool.

 

Yeah, "Leet Speak" is one of the most annoying things ever, when there actually doing it to be cool.
But its hard to tell on my own here if they are mature or not cause I don't know there age, and if they tell me they could be liar for all I know.

 

I go to High school my first year. And there are tons of immature people in tenth grade or ninth than the people in Junior high school that I have noticed.

 

when someone ages, their maturity rises as well...thats the way i believe is for everyone

 

We would all like to think so, but many people also can become less mature due to their goals that come with age.

 

yeah jaamal i actually agree with you. but some maturity does come when you age. either you get smarter start opening your mind, or you close it tighter and become the dumbass everyone sees you as. youd never believe i get steaight F's but i do. school in unimportant to me. but the fact that i grw up with older people all my life. its put me in the perspective to think that. i can easyily make straight A's if i needed to, but theres no need, and there defenitly no want.

 

i think im much less mature and more at the same time when im online, cause i can be myself without anyone judging me, i mean hey theyre millions of miles away!!!! it all depends on what subject though. im usally more mature on the internet though

 

im WAY more mature in the Intarwebs than i am in real life

 

Age does affect your maturity, when your around 5 - 10 you act pretty immature. 10 - 18 your way more immature...... i'll tell you why. People like to impress there friends and like yell out in class and do stupid things at parties or in public... when your 20 and over you start acting way more mature.

 

I think, with age comes maturity. But this isn't always the case. I know a 9 year old, who java codes. He is mature than most 14 year olds in my school. I'm 16, and I find myself to be fairly mature, although, being immature at times can be fun.

 

I believe spelling and grammar are both parts of being mature. It shows you actually put time and thought into every single one of your posts. I believe when people use chat speak ("ppl", for example), it gives them away as being not so er, smart. I also find it quite funny how people call others retards (or attempt to) and spell it wrong. Haha.

Also, no, I am not one bit like this in real life. I believe I am a lot less mature in real life. Oh well.

Age isn't proportional to maturity (assuming it is able to be measured, which obviously, is not)
Take school for example. You see classmates who are very mature, with good behavior. Then look around some more, you'll see those people who just don't care, and are very immature, yet are the same age (or very close) as the ones that are mature.

It's funny how people are attempting to type maturely in this thread, but when you look around in their other posts, you will see that this is just not the case.

EDIT:
Psybash, you say you get straight F's, but have the ability to get all A's. Do you actually expect anyone to believe this?

"o i get 60's but i can got liek, 100 if i wnt 2"

Seeing from your post, I can easily assume that you won't be able to get an A in English...

 

I also agree with the whole, grammar and spelling usage (GUMS haha), I believe it makes you seem, and look more professional and more mature. If you abbreviate everything when you type ("r u comin or wat" for example) it makes you seem less mature, and less able to actually type complete coherent sentences.

 

over the internet? and beside do i actually care what you say about my grammar? its not like i use, "u, lol" and other abbrevations in real life.


edit - well i use good fight irl

 

I'm not quite certain what maturity is, but I'm certain most people likely don't have it.
As for myself, I feel I may be close to having it.

 

Maturity-
1.Of or relating to a condition of full development.
2.Having completed natural growth and development.

It is far to open to give 1 defintion for mature. I like these 2 the most though, and it also depends on a standard of what society and people think is mature actions, age, thoughts and more.

Sometimes being mature is just what scoiety wants you to be, if you don't oblige, you are considered crazy, stupid and a unmature.

 

Didn't explain anything... you'd have to define "full development".
But if that's the case, it's simple. Nobody is mature.
Maturity does not exist, much like morality, if it is to be discerned by the individual. Unless specified otherwise, those terms alone entail absoluteness. A global standard of right and wrong in the case of morality, and an exact attribute criteria in the case of maturity.
So we'd be speaking of some sort of "relative maturity", which exists in many different forms, which are essentially an unimportant conformity to a popular criteria.

so w/e...
to answer the thread, the development that comes with common aging follows very closely to the popular maturity criteria.

 

Excatly, thats why I said I like those 2 defintions the most, because society and the people usually decide what is a level of maturity. There is no point in life where we all hit a stage and level of understanding everything, but we decide when person is mature enough for certian things.

And I wouldn't try to define full maturity, if there was a gun to my head.

 

Well... absolute maturity (assuming it's existence) could concern knowledge/understanding very little, but it must at some degree. It merely seems that those things are equated to the popular relative maturity.

 

It doesn't have to have knowledge/understanding at all, but like you said people believe that wisdom and understanding is what people mix in with popular relative maturity.

(And I don't think absolute maturity exist)

 

stated by most people it really depends on the child and his genetics,
reason being it all depends also on his/her lifestyle. Going to public school/private/home schools are all an impact on the persons maturity in the future. Also the word "mature" may vary.. it can mean they LOOK mature for their age.. does not mean they ARE mature. i think it does not depend on age but on the outer limits. FRIENDS & FAMILY.. ect.ect. i don't think that maturity is something you are just BORN with. you can be an eight year old child and have the mind of a 10th grader. yet they have nothing to show for.. Also with attempts on the "online" and "offline" world that Emrky was talking about can be also be taken note.. If you see a "member" spam/flame a forum with "ALL YOUR BASE" slander. does not mean he is like 8 yrs of age.. honestly, do you think a 8 yr old even played "Zero Wing"? So thus concluding in my humble opinion is that age really does not determine your maturity level nor the out-come in the future of that child.. So it is all about the child and his nature and his life-style (previously stated)..

Cheers.