Key points

Roblox is a platform which hosts games made by anyone.

Competition between game developers means that the most popular games are often the most addictive.

Roblox's chat settings can expose children to harmful strangers.

Changing chat settings and playing alongside your kids can help keep them safe.

Roblox isn’t a game.

That’s not an exaggeration or a cute introduction. Roblox isn't a game, it's a platform which hosts user-made games. Roblox makes it easy to make your own game and release it to the public, with little to no oversight. So when a young person tells me they’re playing Roblox, I know I have to follow up by asking which game they’re playing on the platform. Some are appropriate, some are not. Some are mindless, some are dangerous. And with tens of millions of ga

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