That's nice, it's good you've taken precautions so as not to fall victim to scammers on that platform, joining different random crypto groups over there is risky and could make you victimised, anyways Bitcoin has taught me lots of stuff, from being security conscious when it to finance, to privacy, but one important than I've learnt since I knew about Bitcoin is patience learning to hodl Bitcoin for a long-term is a sign of discipline and it takes one to be patient to achieve such goal. Hodling for long-term can also guarantee a better life after retirement and that's what Bitcoin offers to people who believe in it.
You got a good advise here mate, some people always like to learn in a hard way which is bad, there are many traps in the so called social media groups looking for whom to get trapped, so it now becomes our duty as individuals be careful and set our boundaries, all those shits called signal group and whatever groups littered in telegram Bitcoin enthusiasts should stay off those are the house of scam.
As for learning, Bitcoin is an innovation, Bitcoin has made me to learn many things like the p2p transaction and other things too, Bitcoin has also save me the stress of putting all my money in the banks idly for the benefit of banks not mine, atleast I now understand the power and benefit of investing in Bitcoin and I will advise people to start from somewhere too since we all do it with the little we can.