If you are at a party, and you spot one of your children across the room...
Leave...you are officially too old to be there.

If you are at a party, and you spot one of your parents across the room...
Leave...you are definitely not old enough to be there.

If you are at a party, and have left because of either sign #1 or sign #2...
then come home to find your child or parent has left that same party for the same reason, then head out together and start a party of your own. You aren't as different as you thought.

I really got started using the regularly (i.e every free moment of my waking hours...) in 1993, TCZ, via a telnet portal on a local BBS, using an Atari - sigh, the good olde days... dial up, text only, i was oh so happy when i got a 24.4 to work on that on that old beast.... from '85 on i was using BBS's but didn't really get hooked on the internet as we know until after the social factor at TCZ took hold

What better pet than a dragon. We'd walk the streets in the evening, me with a large pooper-scooper, he with a belly full of gas, of course he'd make a dash for the fire hydrant, and I would let him. Neighbors will throw their arms up enthusiastically and shout heartfelt hellos as we passed. And that damn rat-dog from down the street would stop pissing on my car's tires....