[NikolaNovak]

That's part of the issue and why I try not to fool myself that I'm more technically literate and cool / aware dad, than my dad was.i may work in IT but a teenager's experience of online world is a perplexing mystery to me. They use different social media very differently than I did / do. Their online and offline peers and circles are strange to me. Not that they're bad! I just recognize I don't grok their world.

I met my spouse online and a lot of my generation did. I too met a lot of friends online first. But the exploits and weirdness and threat vectors on the interwebs today is just very different.

[yumraj]

> I met my spouse online and a lot of my generation did. I too met a lot of friends online first.

At what age though? Were you 18+ or younger?

[NikolaNovak]

Fwiw and as requested :)

Re friends - In late 90s and early 2000s I was in my late teens and early 20s. I was on the interwebs since age 15 or 16 in ~1995

Re spouse, age 27 in 2006 on Lavalife. There were a lot of creeps on dating sites then, but not nearly as many professional scammers as today.

[atq2119]

I met some people through game modding forums and mailing lists at 17. I think I started participating when I was 15.