{"id":28925,"date":"2023-09-13T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/?p=28925"},"modified":"2023-09-12T11:26:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T18:26:51","slug":"not-a-joke-roblox-the-dating-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/not-a-joke-roblox-the-dating-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a Joke: Roblox, the Dating App?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"565\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screen-Shot-2023-09-12-at-11.26.16-AM-1024x565.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screen-Shot-2023-09-12-at-11.26.16-AM-1024x565.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screen-Shot-2023-09-12-at-11.26.16-AM-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screen-Shot-2023-09-12-at-11.26.16-AM-768x424.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screen-Shot-2023-09-12-at-11.26.16-AM.jpg 1402w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Roblox, for anyone who hasn&#8217;t heard of the insanely popular &#8220;online game platform and game creation system&#8221; that kids are straight up obsessed with. the virtual universe allows players to &#8220;create, share experiences with friends, and be anything you can imagine.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it sounds like you can also be NOT SINGLE, because Roblox is expanding into the online dating sphere. Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/roblox-is-opening-dating-experiences-to-players-aged-17\/\">Gamer<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Following previous discussions on the matter,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/tag\/roblox\/\">Roblox<\/a>\u00a0confirms that it will expand into officially supporting online dating. This is part of a move to extend its playerbase into older age groups, moving away from the largely underage fanbase it has become known for over the years.<\/p><p>The move, however, has quickly attracted controversy. Not only do some feel that Roblox is a poor service to host internet dating &#8211; given previous reports into grooming on the platform &#8211; but also for allowing 17-year-olds to participate. This is a lower age restriction than other dating sites, which almost exclusively ban anyone under 18 from signing up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah, add us to the group that believe they should stick to gaming and leave the dating to the experts (psst &#8211; that&#8217;s us.). <\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-28925\" data-postid=\"28925\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-28925 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roblox, for anyone who hasn&#8217;t heard of the insanely popular &#8220;online game platform and game creation system&#8221; that kids are straight up obsessed with. the virtual universe allows players to &#8220;create, share experiences with friends, and be anything you can imagine.&#8221; And it sounds like you can also be NOT SINGLE, because Roblox is expanding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dating-and-sex","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28927,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28925\/revisions\/28927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}