After having studied Japanese for a decent amount of time, I have decided to start a "Japanese" social media account to interact with more natives, however entering into this realm has presented its own forms of difficulty, thus, prompting my questions.
The last question is the most important, so if this post is too long, please skip to the final one.
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Etiquette: If a follower says: よろしくお願いします. What do I say in response to this? I have thought about saying (こちらこそ)、よろしくお願いします, but doesn't the expression mean something along the lines of "please be good to me/I wish that you would do it well"? Would it be considered pretentious to say this to a follower when I am the one expected to be servicing them?
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When speaking about one's favorite characters: if someone expresses agreement with your pick, does saying 分かりすぎる！ come across as natural/native-like, or does it sound unnatural in this context?
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If someone responds to a post of yours and starts a conversation: how do you politely close it? I have thought about using コメントありがとう (for casual contexts), however, while I have seen variations of this for singular replies, I am not sure if it properly "scales" to entire conversations.
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When I asked someone about their favorite character, they reversed the question by saying そっちは？ does it follow that if someone gives an answer, therefore, that I should use こっち/こちら in the place of a pronoun, if I want to respond with my own favorite?
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If I refer to myself as 私, does that make me sound like a Textbook learner, or would the final impression be determined by the quality of the Japanese that follows?
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What are some social pitfalls that I should avoid? I have heard that certain compliments can be considered offensive because they are 上から目線, but what exactly tips something over into being condescending?
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Hopefully I can ask this here but: how well tolerated are foreigners generally from a Japanese perspective? I generally try to refine my sentences thoroughly to make them sound as natural as possible, however since I am usually saying things that I haven't seen said before, this can only take me so far.
Lastly, my most important question is
⭐: How do you find the motivation to grind through difficult vocabulary, grammar, and paragraphs that you don't want to comb through? My Japanese is good enough at this point that I can kind of subsist in controlled environments by sticking to what I am comfortable saying, however the problem with this is that it is almost necessarily prohibitive for attaining true fluency. I want to eventually be able to engage in complex conversations with natives, but I also know that I am an extremely lazy individual who is fortunate to have even made it this far. If you have also struggled with this, how did you overcome it?
by Natsuumi_Manatsu