Sexual harassment

[Zsolen]

But were you groomed by a serial abuser and his friends?

Also important to point out that 18 year olds are children and the man in question was a fully grown adult.

You might think you'd have fared better, but hindsight is 20/20 and no one was ever as sensible and level headed as they like to think they were as a child.

He's a predator, children are very vulnerable to it, ESPECIALLY those who have been abused in the past.

You aren't groomed from an online game, and 18 is an adult. You know better at 18.

[Rubiss]

You aren't groomed from an online game, and 18 is an adult. You know better at 18.

This part is very important.

[Corfish]

This part is very important.

Are you serious? Obviously FFXIV isn't doing the grooming. But the people you meet behind the characters CAN. And while the technical term for adults doesn't seem to be "grooming," it can still happen. It just has more defined steps. The victims may be different ages, but the overall strategies and consequences are still the same.

[jameseoakes]

You aren't groomed from an online game

I don't get what you mean by this

[Alleo]

You aren't groomed from an online game, and 18 is an adult. You know better at 18.

Thats completely ignoring that people in online games can feel like real life friends too and can turn into great friendships and more. So I am not really sure how this cant happen in a game? Also not everyone is completely stable. Come from a bad family and suddenly that nice guy that compliments you looks like a beacon of hope. Have low self esteem, mental problems like depression or aniexty or just generally have gone throught something bad and feel down. Its exactly those that this guy went to. And we are not talking about a few sentences and they did everything he wanted.

Stuff like that takes months. Months full of being friends with someone, being worshipped and yet slowly also isolated from the rest. So yes you can be groomed throught online means because friendship cant just happen in real life.

[Zsolen]

Thats completely ignoring that people in online games can feel like real life friends too and can turn into great friendships and more. So I am not really sure how this cant happen in a game? Also not everyone is completely stable. Come from a bad family and suddenly that nice guy that compliments you looks like a beacon of hope. Have low self esteem, mental problems like depression or aniexty or just generally have gone throught something bad and feel down. Its exactly those that this guy went to. And we are not talking about a few sentences and they did everything he wanted.

Stuff like that takes months. Months full of being friends with someone, being worshipped and yet slowly also isolated from the rest. So yes you can be groomed throught online means because friendship cant just happen in real life.

I never said people could not feel like friends. That does not impair a person's judgement. She made the correct judgement, intially.