How Old Are You And Whats Your Gender? Will Philately Die?

Maybe the question is rude, but I'm interested in how old are you and whats your gender? I'm interested does younger people collect postage stamps or philately will die or almost die in the years ahead? Also I"m interested is it a male job:). Think this forum is good for a representative example.
I"m 33 y old male.

I'm Male & 41 years young! (soon to be a year older on Dec.12th)

Male and sharing a birthday with I_Love_Stamps! 61 on December 12.
DavidR

34 yr male

55 yr Male. I don't know wether philately will actually die. It's clear that its public is shrinking and ageing. So it, eventually, will become a "fosil hobby/science", like sigillography.

Female of indeterminable age Stamp collecting has been around since 1840 and will probably continue for at least 100 more years.

67 yr male. If the hobby is going to die, it'll be after I'm long gone.

Jenny2U, 'Indeterminable age' has got to be the same as my wife's age! I married her when she was 30; now she is 29!
I however have aged quite a bit in the meantime. In two weeks, on October 12 I will be 70 and proud of it!

Peter

Greetings your holiness.
54 and counting. Will it die? Hope not, but the membership certainly seems to be waining.

66M

Don't forget to include all the other countries on this planet, not just the ones represented in this forum, when you ponder the hobby dying. Lots of middle classes growing around the globe. Some of them just might take to stamp collecting.

Male, 76. Will stamp collecting die? Probably, as what we know as "the post" is becoming less and less necessary for communication. I think, however, it is safe to say that it will outlive me!

Don

32M

59 yr M.

When I began collecting in the 1960's I recall the oldsters then complaining about the hobby dying. We youngsters were spending too much time watching that new-fangled color TV, yacking on the phone and listening to that God-awful rock music! Yet here we are!

As long as people collect things there will be stamp collectors. Collecting fads change but don't die.

ThomasGalloway made a good point. As people in developing countries get disposable income, some of them will take up stamp collecting too.

Dan


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50WM. This is me...

45-year-old man here. Foster father to two five-year-old stamp collectors (they both collect "pretty" stamps).

I'm not 100 percent convinced philately is croaking. I think it is changing massively and I think newer/younger collectors are not very interested in stamp shows, stamp clubs and forums. I think their approach makes it very difficult to measure what is truly happening to the hobby.

67 M The internet has breathed new life into stamp collecting, taken it off life support so to speak. I'm sure many of you on this website were brought back to collecting because of the internet. It's histoically been an older person's hobby and will probably continue to be one, long after most of us are gone.