Comment by themafia
17 hours ago
> and open online platform for children to socialize in meaningful ways.
What benefits will this bring over an offline platform for children to socialize in? I'm not denying that there would be any, but, if we determine what those are directly, perhaps we can find better mechanisms than bespoke "social media" platforms to deliver them.
> I think Roblox themselves have a chance
It'd probably be a good start to subtract things like "virtual currency" from whatever implementation is imagined.
Children were online long before Roblox. They’ll be online regardless, let’s give them an actually safe space. I’d argue their platform is still better than Xbox live or msn chats
Fully agree on the currency aspect. I feel like since they’ve IPOd the company has taken more of a playing focus in where it was previously building and creating.