Online harassment and how to handle it

Yeah I have problems with always trying to be nice and to not piss people off. Also I do struggle with boundaries a lot tbh, people take advantage sometimes.

It does feel *****y to friend someone and then hurt them, if someone has mh problems it makes it a lot harder. But I didn't intend anything more than friends anyway.. it's just letting them down gently gets to the point where I don't like saying flat out I won't ever feel the way they want me to even though I know that is the case.

The guy keeps arguing that I might change my mind at the moment, and I don't want to hurt him by saying that I know I won't. He seems a bit vulnerable and I of course didn't know that when I friended him. If I just friended people I know in real life there wouldn't be much point in doing so as I see them outside of online and can communicate with them that way. Maybe just refusing friend requests is the best thing to do.

What happens when you click accept to friend requests? Do they immediately start writing to you? Do you leave your status as available on messenger? I turn my status off, personally. Do you reply right away? You're not obligated to start chatting just because they desired access to your page.