Not stronger. Just faster.

I have muted workgroups for sending “good morning” and “happy birthday” messages. Then given them the reason, when they asked why I am slower to respond on WhatsApp than on e-mail.

If I join a work related group, I expect work related chat. I don’t enter social groups.

Reading down, I see OP was in a social group.

In that case, that’s just their (the sophomores’) way of social interaction.
Don’t expect them to be better face-to-face. Remember TV programs depicting bullying? That happens IRL with the same (and sometimes much higher) intensity. We are much luckier now, that we can just avoid them on the internet.

Let’s just say you now know one more person you don’t want to contact much. There is no lack of potential friends in the world.

Nice to know.

My language has both kinds of R. One that makes the tongue go all the way back and another one that’s closer to the ‘L’ point but the tongue is kept looser and not touched fully, making the ‘R’ sound.
I tend to use the latter, mainly because it’s more effort to go all the way back. No. Mainly, it is because everyone else around me speaks that way. But now that I know, I’ll still keep speaking that way, due to the other reason.

Well, that’s how it tends to be in most places.
You don’t get caught for downloading; you get caught for uploading.

Using a similar logic to distribution via DVDs. Only the seller gets into trouble. The buyer does not.

Another point, opening a web page means downloading it, so if someone wanted to frame someone for downloading something, it would be very easy to make such a trap. This, accompanied with CSAM and network monitoring could be used to easily get any person using the internet, in jail, just for opening the wrong link. So, the laws require much more information regarding intent and such.