Always nice to see your friends and your family working together with you to give you important information regarding Bitcoin and Altcoins, also stumbled into this forum. Welcome!
Having those people in your crypto journey is really great especially if you want to talk and discuss about what to do and what to trade in the future with them, always great to have some discussions especially with your close relatives.

It's also right that it's not really a good idea to store your money into exchanges, since you are just let them hold your money in their hand. If the website get hacked or down, then your funds are in trouble.