How many married 50 or more years?

I think you are right. My WAG - 68 years-old.

I think more are closer to my age, 72.
Mary

How to learn more about our ages, without asking outright since that'd be so rude.

Ask about social media activity. I'll guess there's an inverse relationship with age. Place an X if active:

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My results:

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Wait, I'm not as old as you'd think

Then there's the number of uses per week directly related to age; i.e., having to go to the Urban Dictionary [or your child or your grandchild] for help in understanding what you've read online)

https://www.urbandictionary.com/

I did a Survey a long time ago here and found it interesting and fun.. here is the link to it.. Maybe we should redo it to see if things has changed!

(Remember this was done in 2013)

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/39732

I was being generous on the low side when I originally said; "probably in the 50s or older". I actually felt that the average age is likely upper 60s instead of anywhere in the 50s. Could the average age be even higher - in the 70s? I'd say it's very likely! Nevertheless, when the average age for something is in the 60s or older it's clear that young folks have no interest whatsoever. Young folks have as much interest in what POI Factory offers as they do in AARP, Social Security, cremation, burial services, hearing aids, cataract surgery, bladder leakage, urinary catheters, compression stockings or chair lifts for stairs.

Have you noticed that SiriusXM satellite radio got rid of the channel that played 1940s music? The reason why is because anyone that listened to 1940s music when they were in their teens or 20s are now approaching 100 years old - and there's not many of them still alive - at least not many that can still hear and know what SiriusXM satellite radio is. The 1950s channel (SiriusXM Channel 5) is not too far behind from being put into the dustbin of life...

Your 2013 [so-called] survey never came to a true consensus of the average age of POI Factory members, but it's clear most that answered your request were over 60, and that was 5 years ago. It's too bad that POI Factory doesn't have a Poll feature so we can get closer to the answer.

Not to hijack this thread, but what happens to POI Factory when the elder amongst us 'moves on'? There aren't many (maybe not any) 20-somethings or 30-somethings (are there even any 40-somethings?) interested in what is offered...

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Does this say I'm 72?

Time goes by in a flash. For us to reach the golden mark, it will be 2020

Yes! I'd say it probably does...

I don't have an account on those listed other than email
i go onto youtube once in a while no account on it and I do e-mail and that's it. I use emoji in here sometimes, but not on my phone. So i think what you posted CraigW is rubbish, and yes i've been married for 50 years, no rubbish there. Wait for it.....here comes the emoji

Thank goodness for the emoji. Since it's an inverse relationship, before seeing the , I would have guessed 90. Now you're at a much more reasonable younger age Darn, I've pretty much maxed out my allowed monthly allotment of emojis...

A couple of comments:
First of all, there's over 377,000 of us here at the Factory so it's hard to say what our average age is. Now, if we focus only on those of us who are ACTIVE on the Factory, you're probably right. It wouldn't surprise me at all if our average age is in the upper 60's or even older.

Comment #2:
What is this "moves on" of which you speak. Sounds kind of scary.

Phil

Reply to Comment #1:
I don't know where that 377,000 number came from, but of that healthy number rarely are there more than a dozen members actually showing at any given time to be current Online Users. I'm guessing the 'active' members are probably less than 100, and likely fewer. Does that mean that a third of a million people are no longer interested in what POI Factory offers? Or, have a third of a million people 'moved on' is some way? Which begs the question you raise of what 'moves on' really means? Brilliant question from you I might add!

Reply to Comment #2:
I actually had to research the phrase 'moves on' or 'moved on' to see what it was that I really meant! It appears that 'moves on' or 'moved on' means to depart, or to disappear, or to exit, or to leave one place and travel to another. That in itself is not all that scary, however when you don't know where someone moves on to, or where they disappeared to, or where they exited to, then it does tend to give people the heebie-jeebies. Now, to save anyone from from wondering what 'heebie-jeebies' really means I feel compelled to tell you now that it means having the screaming meemies, the jimjams, the delirium ebriositatis, the willies. And that is something that can literally scare you to death...

As an example, rhhenne is a new user who just joined a little over an hour ago. His/her number is 377474. That's a whole lot of members here at the Factory. Now, if new members aren't assigned the next sequential number, then never mind, I'm full of hot air.

Phil

Phil - 377,000 is the population of Tampa, Florida or Bakersfield, California. I have serious doubts that many people are POI Factory members. But I suspect someone does know the facts of the matter. Maybe they will weigh-in with their knowledge.

I do know this - as I reply to your post the number of Users online are 5. And, two of those 5 Users are you and me! Where are the other 377, 469?

I expect Jon will confirm it, but yes, the numbers are assigned sequentially. If the newest member is number 377374, then that's the total number who created a login account. Undoubtedly, there aren't that many folks still hanging around.Many were probably one shot and gone. Others just lost interest and wandered away.

That would mean that 0.001% of the U.S. population have joined POI Factory. I realize that some members are from outside the U.S., but that's 1 out of every 1,000 U.S. citizens, including children. That's a whole lot of people interested in Points of Interest that can be added to GPS devices. Could that possibly be?

They're assigned sequentially, but quite a few accounts are created by spammers. We either block or purge these accounts as they're identified.

That's about 0.12% of the US population and even less if we include sussamb, our neighbors to the North, and the rest of the planet.

Darn, there's another emoji.

Even if there are only half that amount of members, it's still an impressive number.

I don't know how many active POI Factory members there are, but for now, there are enough of us "regulars" to keep it going.

Most GPS enthusiast forums are dying on the vine. GPSPassion now gets a handful of posts a month. GPSReview gets a handful of posts per week. Garmin has pretty much trashed their company forum (no offense to our friend sussamb ) by disallowing any discussion of road navigation and handheld devices or software. GPSFileDepot is just a shell of what it once was. I am sure other members can name some additional examples of GPS forums on the decline.

Lets face it ... for road navigation GPS enthusiasts, there are really only three remaining significant interest groups ... Garmin devices, smartphone apps and built-ins. It is a tribute to Jonathan (and POI Factory regulars) for keeping POI Factory relevant with contributed content in this environment.

There is no doubt in my mind that POI Factory has become the premier "go to" site for Garmin technical information ... certainly a better resource for the most part than the Garmin site itself. This is due in large part to Jonathan's vision of allowing members to provide searchable content through the FAQ's. Do you need to know some information about a Garmin road navigation device or software (old or new versions)? Don't bother trying to find the answer on Garmin's site; just pull up jgermann's FAQ index and chances are you will find what you are looking for right here (thanks John G!).

The smartphone app information is not as organized or comprehensive on POI Factory, but it is accumulating as more Factory members switch to smartphone apps and stay involved in the forum. I hope this trend continues.

As far as built-ins, we try. But for the most part the built-in devices are closed and proprietary, not user configurable, have limited or no import for routes, camera or other POI files, etc. Map updates are too expensive, not available, not current, etc. So there is not a lot to talk about in the forum.

I have stated in other threads my concerns about the future of Garmin road navigation. They have discontinued all of their smartphone apps and have not had any significant new device announcements in over a year and a half. If they are not announcing (and selling) new devices and have no interest in smartphone apps that generate revenue, how long will Garmin support their current devices with map updates, software, etc? And if Garmin gets out of that market, what will happen to POI Factory? I don't want to think about it.

Can you put a number on the [quite a few] spammer accounts that have been blocked or purged? It's bound to be a very large number.

I know that 66 user members cast their vote for the 2017 Contributor-of-the-Year over a period of a couple weeks. This makes me wonder - how many different (individual) members logged-in over the past 90 days? That would provide a good idea of how many active members POI Factory currently has.

Here are some approximate overall numbers:

Purged Accounts = 54,300
These are accounts that were created but weren't ever used.

Blocked Accounts = 9,100
These are accounts that were used and determined to be spammers. (There likely are more accounts that were created by spammers but weren't used in a way that enabled us to identify them as spam accounts.)

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Here are some approximate numbers for the last 90 days:

Unique Visitors (90 Days)= 151,200
This includes anonymous guests and people who've logged in.

User accounts that have logged in (90 Days) = 3,900

User accounts that have downloaded a file (90 Days)= 2,600

New user accounts that were created (90 Days) = 2,800
New user accounts that were created and also used (90 Days) = 1,900

That is very interesting, but confusing.

Of the User accounts that have logged-in over the past 90 Days (3,900) - were those 3,900 different Users, or does that figure count individual Users that log-in multiple times?

If there are that many User members:
Why are the number of Users 'currently online' always show such a low number?
Why are the number of posts so low?

3,900 different users logged in over the last 90 days. Of these some only logged in once, and others logged in more than once.

If you divide 3,900 by 90, you get about 43 different users logging in per day; and 'currently online' is reflective of that.

Most visitors do not login. They read a page or two and then leave.

Most user who login do not post. Most only download POI files or read posts.

You stated:
• "User accounts that have logged in (90 Days) = 3,900"
• "3,900 different users logged in over the last 90 days. Of these some only logged in once, and others logged in more than once."

The above information is not clear to me. In fact, it's quite confusing. The above information implies that all 3,900 user members are different individual people that logged-in over a period of 90 days. In other words all 3,900 user members are different people - each different (individual) user member (person) is only counted once in the 90 day period. But then you have to consider this: "Of these some only logged in once, and others logged in more than once." Yet you say; "If you divide 3,900 by 90 days, you get about 43 different users logging-in per day." This signifies that on each of the 90 days that about 43 different people logged-in on each and every day of those 90 days (43 * 90 = ~3,900). Thus, there were no two days days that had the same user member log-in over that 90 day period of time - meaning that if a user member logged-in on more than one day (in the 90 days) he was only counted one time because he would therefore not be considered to be a 'different user'.

So, the question is:
• Are the ~43 user members that log-in daily the same ~43 user members that log-in most every day?
• Or, are you suggesting that there are ~43 different user members that log-in each day, (43 different user members on day #1 and a different 43 user members on day #2 and a different 43 user members on day #3 and so on, and so forth) which totals ~3,900 different user members over a 90 day period of time?

The number 43 sounds about right - meaning (in my view) that about 43 different user members log-in per day. And, I'm guessing that those same [about] 43 different user members probably log-in most every day. This means there is likely only a relatively small number of other (different) user members, other than the ~43 regulars that log-in on most days, that log-in once in a while on a irregular or random basis.

I see that 63% of the traffic comes from people searching; not searching specifically for the POI Factory website, but instead people searching for various topics related to 'Garmin', 'GPS coordinates', etc. where people end up by mistake at the POI Factory website.

I also see that people who land on the POI Factory website have a Bounce Rate of 57%, which means they leave without clicking to go anywhere else on the website - in other words they are single-page visitors that found the POI Factory website by mistake when searching for something else and they are not interested in the website and leave.

When one looks at figures like 'Unique Visitors (90 Days) = 151,200' and '377,000 Members' it makes very little sense when most times there are less than a dozen User Members that are logged-in and online at any given time. 43 different user members per day makes far more sense.

(Note: Right now there are only four user members logged-in and online - me and 3 others. A far cry from what one would expect the active members to be online at any given time if there was 377,000 members. Even at 3,770 members (1% of 377,000) there should be a lot more than half-a-dozen members online.)

Sorry to interupt but I sure was enjoying the post, "Married 50 years or more". Anymore people married this long? If not, any newly weds?

mgarledge, thanks for putting this thread back on track. 'preciate it.

Phil

If I could I would put a thumbs up emoji.
Mary

I see people so often in here i do not recognize. Some have been here for 10 years plus.

Just in keeping with the topic here. It is about Marriage? Although some are married to the poi-factory it seems...lol
I've learned to not say too much when Wife is around. Yes Dear, No Dear, Ok Dear.
There was some training involved it seems.

Only 12 but feels like 50

58 is impressive.

Wow, good for them! I hope they're both in good health, at least in as good of health as 94 years allows.

Phil

I'm almost embarrassed to admit this, but here's my list. In my defense, I've at least HEARD of most of these things although I might not know what they do.

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Phil

We have been married for just over 50 years and are presently on a one month East Asia Cruise/Tour celebrating our 50th!

We're 59 going on 60 in a few months.

Also, to ease everyone’s mind, I will be 72 this year. (And, I do use emojis every now and then.)

Married 8/8/64 and never looked back, We made a deal when we got married "The one that left had to take the kids (4)" So we just stayed married.

Soon be 48 yrs

3 more months to 55

We'll hit the 50 year mark in August!

LOL

After being married for 50 years, I took a careful look at my wife one day and said to her, "Fifty years ago we had a cheap house, a junk car, slept on a sofa bed and watched a 10-inch black and white TV, but I got to sleep every night with a hot 23-year-old girl."

"Now... We have an $800,000 home, a $65,000 car, a nice big bed and a large-screen TV, but I'm sleeping with a 73-year-old woman. It seems to me that you're not holding up your side of the bargain."

My wife is a very reasonable woman. She told me to go out and find a hot 23-year-old girl and she would make sure that I would once again be living in a cheap house, driving a junk car, sleeping on a sofa bed, and watching a 10-inch black and white TV.

Aren't older women great? They really know how to solve an old guy's problems!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhVYTPDTysY

I like this better than the original.

and going strong.

I stopped counting now but I think it 31 years now.. lol

Um, if I were you I'd start remembering, or you may not see 32.

Phil

55 years will be here soon.

48 years in June.
We were engaged for a year and half before we tied the knot.

Fifty-nine years in April.