Redditors over 50 years old, how did you come to enjoy Reddit and/or what are your favorite subreddits?

1. An arrogant renter that bagged on everything I did or watched showed it to me. If your reading this Kevin have the courage to seek the help you desperately need and you won't feel the need to belittle people.
   — meltedzorb


2. Nice question, thanks! Am a 64 year old retired nurse with two Millennial sons who love Reddit. Was tired of the “data streams” on FB, etc, that only gave me a boomer’s perspective. Asked them where I could hear more varied voices (I travel the world, and teach college kids part time so wanted to learn more about other people than my cohort,) I like coming here but everyone assumes every poster is a young male, when in fact I am a ‘seasoned’ woman. I have my PhD and often contribute to health, research, and retirement preparation conversations, and am always surprised when my opinion is called out as ‘uninformed.’ (Unlike many others here, I don’t contribute anything when I am not informed about something...I come here to learn from Reddit. So I am still getting used to the lack of manners and, frankly, the mean-ness that bubbles up from Reddit sometimes.) I like to read the fun questions and the questions about sex and managing money. I especially like to explain to young people what a joy and privilege i5 is to get older...to bust their myths about growing older. I lift weights 3xs a week, enjoy a hearty sex life with my aging-rock-star husband, walk 4-6 miles a day, travel the world, write for scientific publications, study Spanish (immersion, in country style), cook, camp, fish, explore, create....a.m. healthy and strong and very much alive. So I troll the new postings for fun subjects, or some of the above topics. I mostly lurk and read, but like today, I sometimes join in. It is interesting and fun. I am happy in my retirement that I have time to do so....when I worked I was too busy taking care of critically ill patients to ever get online at work.
   — mcewern


3. My son did , told him I was tired of facebook
   — grandmaonporchchilin






4. >how did you come to enjoy Reddit This is embarrassing. Rage comics. I was younger five years ago when I came on reddit. Only sixty-five. I think for the first maybe month and a half, I just looked at rage comics. I grew out of it, eventually, and I wondered out into reddit world. Do we even still *have* rage comic subreddits any more? >and/or what are your favorite subreddits? I figured that the most provocative thing I espoused was atheism. I started with /r/atheism, but that got too stupid what with most of the interesting comments being conversations between meme-trolls and mods. I still monitor /r/TrueAtheism and /r/DebateAnAtheist. But home after five years is /r/MilitaryStories. I've been writing war stories for five years now. Almost done. If nothing else, it's pretty good therapy. Off-loaded a lot of war stories. I feel lighter.
   — AnathemaMaranatha


5. I seen one of my interns wasting time on it while waiting on the printer....so I do the same thing. I dont use social media at all and just browse reddit's front page mostly to waste time.
   — navel-encounters


6. I fell down the rabbit hole while looking at cute cat photos. My teenage son actually joined Reddit after I did... supposedly. :P Other than the cute animal stuff, I enjoy reading about the train wrecks in /r/relationships , give unwanted advice in /r/animationcareer, and waste entirely too much time reading short fiction on /r/nosleep and /r/HFY .
   — pro_ajumma






7. I heard of it when Jimmy Kimmel mentioned it and one day decided to visit. I haven’t explored it like I should. I really love Ask Reddit.
   — 86753097779311


8. There were multiple pages on FB that quoted Ask Reddit threads. I just decided to go to the source.
   — Anniecski


9. 56 here. I wander all over the internet, and just wandered in. Now I save things to share with my 65 year old disabled husband to try to make his day better. He loves the cat gifs and r/succulents
   — maimou1






10. Introduced by my son, who warned me that it's a time suck. Aww, that won't happen to me, I'll just take a peek.... Years later, I'm on it constantly, killing time and learning new things
    — thinandblonde


11. My son would be on Reddit every morning when he would visit and suggested I take a look. I did and now for almost 3 years, I do the same.
    — lookin4seaglass