Roblox - do your kids play??

[practisingagain]

Saw a letter saying Kent police found children as young as 5 and 6 on this game with up to 200 friends and that it is a haven for paedophiles with lots of characters wandering around with inappropriate behaviour or naked. We've decide to not allow our 8yr old to play. Do you let your kids play this and if so do you see any of this inappropriate relationships or behaviour from other users?

We deleted it after all the bad press regarding it this week. My son is 8 too !! I haven't seen anything on it and my son has said he hasn't either however he quickly agreed to delete the app after I spoke with him about it. I'm glad to see the back of it tbh

my DTs (11) have been playing this for a while now and have seen nothing unusual. Players aren't allowed to swap any information or use certain phrases etc as I believe it gets filtered.

I think there are mini games? connected but again we've not experienced anything and the boys are obsessed with it!

I hadn’t seen any coverage on this but my son has been playing. I’ve been very ill with the flu this week so he’s spent most of the week playing on the computer. I’ll have to stop this one obviously. Can anyone link to the coverage of the problem ?

www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-news/parents-warned-against-online-gaming-app-roblox

I googled "Roblox game naked characters" and I see the issue. I thought they'd just be like Lego people without clothes but I was wrong...

Kent police said it was a haven for paedophiles? Really?
My dc play. There is no chatting (which was mentioned in the internet safety letter I saw) no one talks to my children and they can’t talk to them so the biggest interaction is walking up to a strangers wee figure. I suppose they could be naked though I haven’t seen that, as dressing them up is a big part of the game.
I think this is hysteria tbh. Just let your dc play games with you in the room and actually warch what they do rather than assume they can go off and play safely away from any adult support.

New Google what I googled and look at the screenshots. I wouldn't want my child seeing that.

Middleoftheroad’s link confirms that Kent police confirm they did not make the comments in the letter! We all need to be more careful around our children’s internet safety but this is such a typical knee jerk response.

I think it's more likely teenagers pissing about on the game rather than paedophiles though, just from some of the screenshots of the Lego people giving oral sex...

DS(10) plays it. It's crazy. I have never seen a naked character and I don't really know how the block characters could be inappropriate. It's moderated and easy for children to report.

Do you have a link to the letter?

Middle of the road gave the link below. It’s a letter from a primary school to parents though, and the police said it’s not their words and no mention to paedophiles! The letter is now appearing on every parent council group on Facebook that I belong to..
If it makes us pay more attention to what our dc do on the internet good, but I suspect many parents just delete this one app and think “Job done”.

We turned the chat off as it was a bit dodgy and he knows he is only allowed to have online friends he actually knows in rl. We do police all his internet access (email FaceTime messaging etc). School also have access to his iPad and he doesn't have a phone yet No concerns about his rights to privacy please he's 9!

The letter is in the TES article that Middleoftheroad linked to. It's a company which sells internet training purporting to be Kent Police.

DS does pay with other people he doesn't know but he doesn't chat with anyone.

If you're supervising your children on the internet, this shouldn't be a problem.

My 11 year old plays. My email for the account, settings locked down, he knows I will check. He can only chat to friends and he must, and does, come to me if anyone friends him or if he wants to friend anyone. The only people he has as friends are actual real life friends.

Our two DDs did play it (6 & 9) and we have now removed from their tablets after discussing it with them a month ago. Basically younger DD was getting rude messages sent to her and elder DD said you can get directed to dodgy games. Messages to younger DD included the f word. Our school spoke to the older kids and sent a letter home outlining their concerns.

It's honestly fine. Besides, you're fault for letting them play if you can't accept this will happen.

My dds play. They are 12 and 10. They can only play in the living room and only allowed to chat/friend children they actually know.
They've been playing for ages and we never had any issues.

"My dds play. They are 12 and 10."

One of your kids is 12, shouldn't you honestly drop the limitations?

My DD played for a bit. I had my misgivings but set some rules, no friending, no chat no messages. A friend of hers had a horrible experience which was linked to (we think) Roblox. Hundreds of abusive messages over the course of a weekend, seemingly from Roblox 'friends'. DD deleted the game before she even told me about this. I'd be very wary, I don't think it's an innocent as it seems.

DD is only allowed to play with friends she knows. In fact she only plays really with one friend and they face time at the same time.
It’s linked to my email and I check who she is friends with.

Beamer

You know a lot of the Roblox fanbase is either in their teens, late teens or adults?

Ninjin. Doesn't surprise me. I knew it was multi player in real time, so could be anyone playing. She decided to delete it herself as she was spooked by what happened to her friend.

Beamur

Mhm, hope your kid didn't play when the forums were around. That was a scary place, to be honest, they removed it because of how it was. Mentioning, "In the later years, we hope to bring the forums back."

They still hadn't do it yet, bloody hell Roblox.

No, forums strictly forbidden for her. She's a good kid (and her phone is tethered to my iPad) plus I think her primary school did a good job about internet safety. I may change my tune in a couple of years but for now I think we're mostly ok!