I have a friend that is really invested into crypto. She is very enthusiastic about it and I learned a ton about Bitcoin and crypto from her. But then she told me something that scared me: she keeps ALL her Bitcoin in the exchanges rather than a hard wallet.
I told her that was a security risk, she could get hacked, the exchange might play dirty with her money in the future, the exchange could disappear. Her response was that I was being paranoid, that her exchanges are safe, and that she is pretty careful anyway so she is certain hackers won't get her.
How do you convince people like that? I am worried Murphy's Law will hit her badly and she will lose her funds.
If you really care about your friend get her a hardware wallet. And teach her how to use it. Tell her all the risks associated with hardware wallets (loosing private keys, phishing websites etc) and then step away. Hopefully she wont mess up.