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I’ve seen a number of blogs arguing that minors and adults should not add each other on. However, I disagree. A cool and interesting person is a cool and interesting person regardless as to age. I don’t see why they should not be friends or interact with each other just because one is a minor and the other is an adult. There are some adults who put on their profile that they don’t want to befriend minors and I am willing to respect that. If you have it on your profile that you don’t want friend requests from minors,and find a request from me,it just means that I didn’t read your profile as carefully as I should have and missed seeing your preference. If that happens just decline the request and forget about it. Please don’t come to my profile and tell me off for adding you (which someone actually did)because it was an honest mistake not a deliberate disrespect for your preference. Another reason why I like to have some adults as friends on social media is because it gives me people who I know that I can turn to for support and advice.
Why I like to include some adults among my friends on social media
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Memories by Wayne
That is a very good and mature way to look at it. Personally, I never felt the need for a "DNI list". The whole point is to meet new people, right? I will look at a profile before adding to see if the age if listed and see if they have a DNI, minors only etc. I will definitely consider the age before adding. But if they have an interesting profile, common interests, and no DNI, I don't see the big deal necessarily. There needs to be respect on both sides. And a responsibility from both sides. From the adult to know how to properly speak to the type of person they are interacting with. And from the minor as well to practice Internet safety and be careful with what information they put out there. Ain't no one wanting to meet Chris Hansen I hope lol. Having been on YouTube for quite awhile now, it's been an interesting learning experience, how to properly interact with people from ages 14-74. I have such a wide age range of people that follow me. I think as a father too I have a lot of interactions with my kids and their friends. Obviously they should all feel safe and respected around me. And maybe being a teenager myself way back in the early chat room days of the Internet, and knowing what it was like to navigate that mess, and deal with all the creeps back then too.
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as a minor a lot of the time minors cant be friends with adults because it is a power dynamic or whatever uhh basically power imbalance. the adult has more power and control over you. ive gotten groomed so many times like this because i thought they were just being friendly or that they cared a lot but no they said weird shit to me that i didn't see as wrong until others told me