[nemothekid]

>Watch them cry and talk about how they'll be social outcasts and their friends will mock them

I don't see how potentially making your child a social outcast is healthier than just fucking talking to them. It's strange how an entire generation that grew up on goatse, single click hardcore porn, and generally unadulterated internet access have become the very luddites they used to make fun of on phpBB forums.

An incredible amount of socialization happens online today. Even if you believe that they will form "real" connections with "real" people, only the most determined of hormone raged boys will overcome the friction to include them. Secondly, the failure to actually communicate the problems of social media and resorting to lockdown is essentially sex education through abstinence. It demonstrably doesn't work.

I imagine there's a middle ground between 16 hours of Roblox every day and 0 hours of any internet access. Apps, proxies and firewalls aren't an adequate replacement to communication.