Roblox Parental Controls: Safety Settings Every Parent Should Know

The following is excerpted from an online article posted by Parents

With 100 million daily active users, Roblox is one of the most popular online platforms for kids worldwide. It’s more than a single game but an entire universe where kids can play original games, create their own games, and socialize with each other. As its popularity has skyrocketed over the years, so have the risks. 

In response, the company has implemented several safety features to protect users—especially important since parents have been encouraging each other to stop letting their kids play it. These include its “trusted connections” feature, stronger privacy settings, and the ability for parents to link to their children’s accounts to monitor their activity. But that doesn’t mean that all parents properly use, or are even aware, of them.

A recent survey conducted by A Case For Women indicates that many parents still need to inform themselves on every safety feature if they want to keep their kids safe on Roblox. Keep reading to learn more.

Despite this powerful tool being offered, only a little more than half of parents have enabled it. As far as the other parental controls offered, 36% of parents or guardians either don’t use them or don’t even know they exist. Among users, 23% of mothers forget to review or adjust their settings. It’s interesting to note that a significant 22% of millennial parents haven’t learned about parental controls at all.

Despite Roblox’s increased efforts to protect young users, not all parents believe the controls are effective even when implemented correctly. Nearly 30% of parents say they still encountered inappropriate content or unwanted interactions aimed at their kids that they expected the controls to block. Only 61% of parents and guardians believe the settings are enough to keep their child from being contacted by a potential predator on Roblox.

The survey results show that many parents want stronger, more proactive tools to place their confidence in: About two-thirds would have more faith in the parental controls if real-time suspicion chat alerts were available. This could inform them in real time about unwanted content or contact, allowing them to intervene immediately.