Honestly you should. The young men of today need good role models, especially now with the single mom epidemic and troon groomers and pinkos trying to reach them first. I had an old mentor who was like a second grandpa when i was a teenager and it really helped me out.
I wasn't sure how much of this story I wanted to share, but what the hell.
Some years ago I was in a discord server that was splintered off another one that itself was splintered off of a bigger one that got mismanaged into being unusable. Since it was a smaller group most of the people in the server recognized one another, but eventually more people started getting invited from the group we had broken off from as some of the members still interacted in that group looking for people to bring along. Fine, whatever, except a few of the new people were minors, around 14 years old or so.
I didn't have a problem with there being minors in the group, with the exception that because it's discord and a lot of the people in the server were LGBT, the kids that joined really liked to talk about sex and sexual topics as though they were grownups. This was about the point where I got closest to being some kind of mentor for one of them, we had a couple conversations where I explained that I understood where he was coming from, I certainly wanted to feel like an adult at that age too, but imagine actually being an adult and a kid starts talking to you that way. Not really the kid's fault and I didn't want him to feel like he was being kicked out of the big boys club, but it was my responsibility to explain that boundary to him, and the other minors (who cared a lot less for what I had to say)
Aside from talking to the kids about their behavior I had a talk with the other adults in the server. I made my case that not only should minors not be talking about sex with adults, but the adults shouldn't be talking about sex with each other where minors are present. Everyone agreed and the server calmed down, and there were no incidents following that one for the next couple months. Or at least that's what I thought, because after some time the kid I had initially talked to messaged a bunch of us in the group and explained that after we drew a line in the sand about sexually explicit topics, a couple of the adults just started talking to him privately about it instead. He went along with it because he felt validated by it, until the conversations got to a point where it seemed they were trying to move things beyond the internet into real life, and it just became too real for him.
That's why as much as I think kids being able to interact with adults and share things they've done and get validation for it is a good thing, I just think it's too dangerous online. As far as those teenagers were concerned, we the adults were all more or less the same in terms of who they could trust, and so they really couldn't tell us apart when it came to who had the intention to take advantage of them, and those of us without predatory intentions had no idea this all was going on. I'm still grossed out by it, and until I can think of how this sort of thing can be guarded against I'm just going to avoid it entirely.