minors, truly, be safe out there. some adults are honestly creeps, and while it’s their responsibility to make sure they interact with you in a safe and non-harmful way, it does no harm to pay notice to types of trends in adults who do set out to harm minors

some of these can include:
• saying they’ll “wait” for you (for however many years til you’re of age)
• flirt or make inappropriate jokes with the knowledge you’re a minor
• saying you’re “mature for your age”
• overly loving; asking for lots of information about you

• ask for photos of you after a very short period of time, even after not sharing any valuable information about themselves
• ask you to keep certain conversations to yourself, & to not tell friends/adults or other authority figures

• guilt trip you into saying they aren’t weird for talking to you as a minor
• attempt to discredit your friends claims of them

there’s tons more because none of this is new, but these are ones i thought were most important. this is in no wa meant to not discredit internet friends, just be wary of people you interact with, new or long-time mutuals