I don't think flirting's so much the problem (or maybe I just have an old-fashioned idea of "flirting" which doesn't even go as far as simulated kissing ... much else what else is involved in cybering as I understand it). And as I said elsewhere, I don't think there's harm in lightly indulging someone close to legal age to give them some flattery - so long as it's done in a manner that does not show any ill or overtly sexual will on the part of the adult.

But the real problem is this new age of Internet Intimacy as I like to call it - you know, where you think you know somebody and it turns out you really don't. (Hell, I had this happen to me recently with online people I thought were RL friends - not involving cybering or anything - whom I thought I knew. I did not, as it turned out. I can only imagine how much worse it would've been if you threw in sex AND illegalities of age.)