Perhaps going to the playground would be even better?
What the GP explained even expands to adults. I have three friends geographically dispersed who play a few on-line games together on Friday nights, mostly just messing around, while they sit on a Discord chat. I dont really get into on-line stuff anymore but I've sat in on their discord chats and its everything from silly jokes that might as well come from children all the way to serious politics and life stuff.
Metaverse spaces so have their place and use, but I agree, make sure they go outside and play IRL getting exercise as well as social and environmental exposure.
I love these threads, you can always spot the ones without kids or who forgot about their own childhood a mile off.
Why put a dampening on that for any reason?
And as a general rule, categorizing the way a specific person raises their kids based on an ill informed opinion about the general public is often received poorly.
Even if not, there's only so much time kids can spend at playgrounds. And sometimes it's cold outside. Just in general, it's good when kids have more options for social play.
It is not actually helpful to have a knee jerk reaction to "screens". Just like in real life, the specific activity a screen is being used for can be bad, or it can be good.
Also friendly reminder that its not the nicest thing to tell parents whats good for their kids
Could s/he not of made friends locally?
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
It’s rude to assume that they don’t have friends that are local. It’s also weird to assume that local friends are more valuable or meaningful that remote friends.