why do some people always hesitant to tell their age?

I don't. I would proudly tell anyone my age. It doesn't mean that I'm still young, though, but this age comes with a blessing. This age means a reminder that we still live one more year, so be grateful. We have a chance to do good things, to reach dreams, and so on. But just like you, I don't mention my birth date easily although I would not think negatively if someone knows it. I am also proud to say that (based on what people say) I look younger than my age. Sometimes it makes me proud and blush, but sometimes it has a bad impact too. People will always think I'm still young, so they won't listen to me.

Until recently I would have to figure out my age by asking what year it is! I stopped keeping track of the number when I reached 30! But now that I have to state my age for surveys I Do know the number. I have been told I look younger than my age but that isn't why I can tell my age. It is because I see age as just a number. There are 18 year olds who are more mature than some 40 year olds! It is just a number.

I just turned 27 and when asked about my age in the office, I answered without hesitation. I could see that some people, especially some women, were surprised about how unabashed I was about my age. I don't see why I should keep it a secret or why I should lie about it. It's a fact of life, we get older every year. I don't see the point of pretending to be young when I am not. And refusing to state my age will only make people think I am old.

I don't have any problem with letting others know my age. I am twenty four and I am proud of it. I think maybe girls would feel that age is something personal as it has something to do with their wish to stay young and beautiful. I believe they would start to hide their age as early as after twenty one years old. This is understandable and we should let it be if they are not open to that question.

Everybody willing to tell their age but the people won't talk with aged people and they search for the same age group persons. So everybody hiding their age. If one person tells the age another person think about it and his behavior is changing after that.

I have a friend who keeps on telling everyone that she's 35, when in fact she just turned 38 this year. I don;t know what her reasons are, and I never get to asking her why bother doing it. I have no problem telling my real age. It's just a number. It used to be a big deal when I was in my mid-twenties but now, it's no biggie.

Yes there are people who are really shy in so far as their age is concern. Perhaps they do not want people to know that they are old already. In my case, I do not consider it much as an issue and I have never lied on my age. It is really funny to think when someone is young and how he or she wishes to become an adult. Now when someone is old already, she or she wants to become young. You are indeed blessed to look younger than your age. Consider it as a blessing.

Actually that is one thing I have learned from mylot. I found that there are people like, in their culture, asking age is too personal. So, i guess that depends on cultural beliefs. Here in our country, age is not a big deal. It's seldom you see/met people from my country who hides their age. Like I said, age is not a big deal here, anyone can directly ask about age even on first acquaintance.

why do some people always hesitant to tell their age? Maybe because they are not acting their real age. I dont see any reason to be ashamed of our age.Its more shameful if we grow backwards then we become retarded . But well if other people dont feel comfortable of telling their age then let them be..Its their personal right also.

I think this only happens to older people who are in the midst of younger people. We tend to hide our age because we feel embarrassed that we are so old compared to those around us. I do feel that way sometimes, but to those who are already close to me, i tell them my age. But at any rate, the reaction when i tell them my real age is "you look so much younger than your age."

hi jobfind! for me its okay for me to tell the truth about my age because age for me is i think it is not that big deal, it is okay for me to tell my age so that they will know the real me and my age as well. there is no reason why you will deny and having hesitation in telling the age.

I have no issues about telling my age to anyone. Unlike you I cannot even say this proudly that I look younger than my age because I don't. I look my age and I am fine with it. I don't really understand why people especially girls hide their age or lie about it. When children are young they proudly tell their age, in fact when their parents say you cannot do this thing because you are only twelve they would say no I am twelve years and four months old. But when they turn above twenty five years they start hiding their age. Amazing isn't it?

Hi jobfindonline. I'm not shy to tell my age because, just like you, I look younger than my age. However, I decided to not reveal my age too often because of the follow up questions I am getting. Asking about my age per se isn't personal. But after learning about my age, many of them would ask me personal questions, such as why am I not married? Do I have a boyfriend? etc.

Hi Job! I always be transparent with my age! I don't have any objection to share my age to anyone! But we have people who never reveal their age to anyone! Even with friends too. Some of the reason for not revealing is they would have not got married and when we came to know their age they feel even more bad by our expression! But finding a person's age is not a challenging task to do in this today world. Technology helps us to achieve it! I also have another point why people don't share their birth date. Probably it will be a default password for many documents! Like, in our office we have a default password to open the payslips. The default password is "xxxxxx@ddmmyy", where xxxxxx denotes the birth day and ddmmyy denotes the birth day of the associate. The payslips are system generated and we cannot do anything with that! So, possible way is to hide the password protected documents from other! So, for more precaution! People don't even reveal their birth day to the people around them...!

I personally don't have an issue with revealing my age to others, I just don't see a reason to hide it I suppose. I think some have an issue with it due to being worried that they might be discriminated in some shape or form. An example of this occuring would be during a job interview, one might worry that revealing their age might play a factor in whether or not they get the job.

Personally it does not bother me to tell people the day I was born, or my age. Very seldom do I share the yr. and let most of them figure it out themselves. I am going to be 48 in just a couple of days and most people would never guess it, so that is always good. To me age is just a number, so why should you want to hide it?

I would say if someone asks, but I don't like saying because I already think I'm old even though a lot of people think that 24 years is not old. I think that the main reason that I don't like is when I'm around of persons that are much younger than me, like in my new college that everyone is younger than me.

hi, i guess you are talkig about women, snece most of the people who tend to hide or not to tell their really aging are women, so i guess because they see life in their teens or their adulthood, they thing if they are older they are not pretty and i thinkg the people who think to hide their ages is seeing superfecial pretteness so.

May be because they dont think that age are important to be asked in some conversation. I never give my true age and birth date in every site I registered, simple just for security and privacy.

people hesito tell their age becuase they don't want to others think they are too old or too young. you know, no one likes becoming old so if you think they are youger than they actually are. they will feel so happy. so not everyone is willing to tell their ages. becuase they want to let you think they are young. i don't mind it so i cn freely tell my age,too. maybe becuase i'm young so i don't mind. so i can know what the people who see it as a secret think. but i really don't mind what my real age is.