regarding the very short lived new friending system

if you weren’t aware, very shortly the friending system used to only allows adults to add other people who were also adults, and minors were able to add adults as friends but with caution. 

after bringing awareness that people who just turned 18 or were already 18 couldn’t add others near their age range 16-17, the change was reverted. 

This change had good intention but came with flaws such as the one described above. It helps prevent predatory behavior. The change shouldn’t be completely removed and forgotten but instead reworked to cater those who just turned 18 or what the age of consent would be in their state/country. 

for example, countries where the age of consent is 16 should mean that people who set their country to any one like that can only add people 16+ and within the age range of 1-2 years of who are from the same country or any country similar with the same age for their consent law. 

so for example, someone from the philippines who’s 16 can add someone from california who’s 20, but the prompt will still show about this person being an adult due to the californian consent law being 18 and locking away the option for the californian side to add the 16 year old from the philippines 

of course the 1-2 age range I suggested can still show this prompt but not completely lock people of the same age range from being friends. 

so with this, forum away

You don't need to be the age of consent to TALK to someone. Do you see a kid in public and ignore them when they say hi or wave to you? Do you think that should not be allowed? Friending someone does not mean there are going to be acts that involve the age of consent. Stopping people of different ages from talking to each other is a bad idea and it allows a powerful system of elites that hates us to further divide and control us. The old internet which is what this site is based on was never like that. Everyone intermingled and shared info/ideas/thoughts/opinions/etc.

This phenomena of wanting to isolate all ages into tight little isolated groups is only a relatively new one. It's being pushed to normalize, and gather support for their digital ID laws which will allow the total control of all information on the internet. Oh you posted something the government didn't like? Boom! YOU are now in prison, because it's tied to YOU. Sound far fetched? The Russians did that with the gulags and still do it to this day. The Chinese do it too, AND they even euthanize/kill you with their little euthanization van that just rolls up to you when you speak out against the government in person or online. Think it won't happen in America? Go read Florida house bill 945 (HB945)

That's their plan, don't fall for it folks, and especially don't be free ideological anti-first ammendment subversion for them.