Is it weird for a 24 year old man to follow much younger girls on social media?

[Anonymous]

Like 14 to 18 years old girls

[Anonymous]

Like what kind of social media? I mean what do they do on their platforms? I could see if it was an artist who is excellent at drawing, art, etc. To see them progress. I know I watched this documentary called “Buffalo Girls,” about little girls in Thailand I believe it was. Little girl was about 9, fighting in Thai fights. I followed her career cause I like Muay Thai. Now she’s maybe 26, still fighting. So I followed her all these years. Still watch her fights. Her name is Stam Fairtex. Now if it’s just little girls dancing or something like that, that may be a little odd.

[Asker]

On IG, they were just some young girls with very few pictures (not IG famous or anything), following them and being followed by them, so they were probably in touch and communicating at some point. And not just one girl, many, and all looking like teenagers like around 16 not mature at all.

[Opinion Owner]

I see. There may be something a little creepy about that. Especially if it’s just teenage girls acting stupid. Nothing of importance like something positive to contribute to society.

[Asker]

Yeah they were not even dancing or looking for attention or anything, just a very few personal posts or selfies, from different countries from where he is, would assume they met on some dating site - anyway I shouldn’t have spied that makes me a sick now

[Opinion Owner]

Oh this question ins based on someone you know?

[Asker]

Yeah, don’t know him very well though just met on a dating platform

[Opinion Owner]

I see. Did you ask him about it? Is he from this country? I ask because there are a lot of other countries that the age of consent is much younger to which you may find disgusting but is normal to others from other countries. I don’t know though for sure.

[Asker]

Yeah maybe has something to do with that, I think 18 may not be a hard stop limit like it is in the West, still very hard to be okay with, and there’s still a big age gap and they were NOT mature

[Opinion Owner]

Well if they’re 18 and he’s looking at them technically they’re legal if he’s looking at them sexually. Again even if he’s from another country w a much younger age limit as far as consent they may be considered legal as well depending on that country. From 18 to 24 I don’t see as a big deal. I say that because that’s a 6 year difference. My girl is 7 years older than me. As far as the maturity, we don’t really know that. I mean there’s plenty of people who are much older like my age or older who still aren’t mature. Even mature people act goofy sometimes. It’s hard to say w out knowing more about it.

[Asker]

But they looked so young ☹️ I was so innocent and not mature at this age…and why only young girls… At 17 (maybe 16 max) I could have dated an older guy

[Asker]

Thanks for your messages by the way it’s definitely not an easy topic 😔

[Opinion Owner]

Well before there was an age limit way back in the day there was really no age of consent. I like that there’s laws like that now. Again I am not really sure why he would be watching it unless I seen the videos myself. They weren’t funny in anyway? I mean I watch a lot of people on YouTube who are much younger than me but that’s cause they’re funny as hell. But honestly there are some men who find girls at that young of an age sexually attractive rice. If that wasn’t so men way back in the day wouldn’t have been having sex w what we consider underage girls these days. But it happened so yes it may be a sexual attraction thing.

[Opinion Owner]

No I completely understand what you mean about this being a not so easy topic. Have you dated him? Are you really interested in him? Or you upset that there’s men like this out there? Maybe both?

[Asker]

There were just selfies basically nothing funny or entertaining… I can understand that biologically these girls are sexually mature and that a man can have some level or attraction. We’re all animals in some ways. But having a type for young girls sounds very disturbing to me… I would assume men would automatically shut any attraction down and keep distances and not engage with them in any romantic way because super creepy or plain illegal, there’s a very strong taboo around the legal age, for good reasons I think… rape is a very sensitive topic for women but the age of consent is even more, 14 is VERY young for a girl and having loose boundaries or attitudes around such a topic is really disturbing to me

[Opinion Owner]

Yes a lot of what you said is true. But if you go along the idea of we’re all animals than maybe there’s some sort of animal instinct there through the process of nature that tells a man these women can reproduce. I often wonder why a lot of us men cheat? I mean I wish I could just turn that part off as far as my brain to bot look at other women once I’ve committed myself to someone but I can’t. I mean it would make life so much easier if I could. So I wonder if that’s part of nature just the same as male animals in nature tend to try to have sex w as many females species of their nature as well. I don’t know. Now here’s something else that’s been coming up lately. So w in the lgbqt community, forgive me if I ducked that up but many of them say they’re born like that. Which may or may not be true, science has t found a gene linked to prove that. But let’s say that’s true, we’ll isn’t it possible that men may be born w a gene as well that attracts them to underage girls, underage boys? I’m not justifying that, but if they’re going to accept one groups stance on that they’re going to need to look at that second one as well.

[Asker]

The big difference is: looking at other women is normal and while it may hurt your partner to know this this is not evil or bad in itself I believe, you’re not hurting these women and you’re not attracted to them because you feel bigger or more powerful compare to small innocent girls… acting in impunity, above any law, and doing evil is a complete different story... just because you observe something in nature doesn’t make it right actually it just mean nature and humans are anything but perfect but some individuals are just way worse than others

[Opinion Owner]

Yes there certainly are a lot of evil people on the face of this earth. I know this first hand because I used to work in a prison for 7 years in medical. So what are your thoughts on this dude? You going to continue to talk to him? Do you mind if I ask where you’re from? Not like pin point location but are you in the states? I’m in the states myself.

[Asker]

I see… Im French but live in the UK. I’d love to visit the states :) 👋🗽I’m not sure to be honest if I’d talk to him again I’m not quick to judge people normally… thanks for the talk :)

[Opinion Owner]

You’re welcome. This conversation helped me stay awake at work. Yes I’m at work, work the night shift. Sitting all night w a patient who was sleeping all this time.

[jshm2]

Provided he's not hooking up with them, and is following rules. It doesn't matter what the age of anyone on social media is. That is one of the main point of social media - everyone is a "digital citizen" and the "norms and rules" of your country, do not strictly apply.

[Asker]

It’s not about the rules it’s about what he likes… he’s just following girls he likes and they’re all under or around 18 - not hooking up physically but defo online - anyway…

[Lowiu]

If there's no other relationship (they are his nieces or kids of friends or so) I would say its creepy

[whereismyjohnny]

Unless they are family (cousins for example), it’s weird.

[Levin]

For the most part there's no reason for any grown man to follow any girl younger than 18.

There may be some odd innocent reason, but generally, just no.

[invalid1]

Pedophiles, when it comes to this phenomenon countries' governments should make special rehab institutions for those fucks... I live amongst them, it's very hard to pretend that's okay.

[JamesDiaz11]

I'm not someone who calls pedo on a whim, but if he's a guy in his mid-20's and follows girls under 18 that he's not related to, he's VERY SUS.

[TroyDT2]

Under 18, unless some reasonably justifiable reason (like family), sounds creepy.

[pizzalovershouse]

Yes no younger than 18 so younger is a utty guy

[TopTier]

Not weird to follow an 18 year old. 24 is half way to the wall.

[Anonymous]

No! And I would tell all those girls to STAY AWAY!

[Anonymous]

What kind of an adult would find 14 years old girls kids attractive? Ew

[Guy13]

Seems odd to me… 🤷🏻‍♂️

[YourFavoriteFriend]

Follow? No. Date? Well... it depends.

[Anonymous]

What is the 24-year-old man to you?

[Asker]

? He’s a guy I ‘met’ on a dating platform and I checked his Instagram

[Opinion Owner]

If it's exceptions (let's say 1-2 are teens out of every 10 women she follows), I wouldn't see it as out of normalcy. Otherwise, probably yes.

[Opinion Owner]

But if they are 17 or 18, that's the same as their being 20 or 23.
What I said applies if they are 16 and under.

[BJP21]

Anything below 18 is creepy.

[Jennz6]

No I don’t think so

[Jennz6]

But over 18

[Zolly99999]

Random strangers... yes

[krin_m]

Yes it is weird!

[CubaPirate]

Yeah peado alert

[Faith18letsgo]

Yeah definitely.

[Rockstarrrrr]

Yikes...

[Fuentes]

Very weird

[In_Trance]

Weird af