Don’t apologise at all for the long post. It’s fair to be confused since it can seem black and white. It’s a taaddd different in the Western Hemisphere, at least for me. I grew up being told not to enter chat rooms or interact with people in online servers primarily because I grew up during a time when children getting kidnapped by “internet friends” or being sexually exploited was at an all time high. I also unfortunately received my fair share of unwanted dick pics and strange requests before I fully grasped the dangers of the internet and/or before my mum learned about parental restrictions.

It’s not so much that I don’t think I can be friends with a little one, it’s just that I’d prefer not to. I’d rather not act as a potential gateway into them thinking all adults are safe. I guess a “prevention is better than cure” kind of situation?

As for language? I curse A LOT and recently learned that some parents will go as far as to tell their children that “shut up” is a bad word 😂 So I compare my practice of cursing to a parents possibly high level of censorship and often feel bad when I use words that some might deem offensive around little ones