Gaming company Roblox is launching a new feature called “Party
Place” to directly cater to the growing demand among users for a
dedicated, private place to host virtual events. From Party Place, the
group can chat and hang out as they decide which Roblox game they
plan to play next. Users can join the Party Place venue without a private
server if they want to just see the venue. Roblox, however, is making
private servers available for free in Party Place, so parents and kids can
create a place where only those friends they directly invite can join and
play. The kids don’t just go online to play. They socialize, chat and hang
out with a mix of real-life friends and virtual ones, blurring the lines
between online and offline in ways that traditional social networks, like
Facebook, do not.