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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 657365, member: 13650&quot;]I don&#039;t know enough youth to give you a valuable answer. All I can say is I think I got burnt out collecting as a kid because I didn&#039;t really have any mentors or friends that were in the hobby. The internet wasn&#039;t available so I was pretty much on my own trying to figure stuff out. Plus, I wanted so much but couldn&#039;t afford to buy it. Pretty soon, my only focus was getting my own vehicle when I turned 16 and I lost all interest around 15 years old. Life revolved around improving an old 85 cutlass and then dressing up a pretty sweet truck by highschool. The big deal at that time was to get a CD player into any vehicle that moved because it was the fancy new thing! Aside from that, music, food, and girls were high on the list.</p><p>I never lost the collection. It was just put away for a long time. I totally forgot about coin collecting and must have went years without it ever crossing my mind. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Eventually, I turned 27. Was watching the news at lunch one day and saw that silver had hit 21.00 and I thought, &quot;I wonder what that does for coin prices?&quot; I went and looked at some stuff again and it was like, one day all of a sudden out of the blue I realized, hey!... I&#039;m an adult, I&#039;ve got buying power, and the internet at my disposal for information and buying. Like a light bulb turned on. The hobby was like a whole new world. I realize now how limited my knowledge was as a kid compared to what I could have known had the internet been there. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In that way, kids are lucky these days. They have the internet. All the info is available at their finger tips and they aren&#039;t left out on their own to figure stuff out. They can make friends on forums like this and if anything I would imagine it will give a nice boost to the hobby. The kids who are interested will be able to find others who are interested in the hobby and maybe are more likely to stick with it.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp; At any rate, I think there&#039;s a high possibility that most kids may lose interest at some point and come back to the hobby when they&#039;re older.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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