It’s okay to let kids play Fortnite during a global pandemic - The Verge

It’s his only socialization.” For a lot of kids, this is the whole point: online spaces like Fortnite are the only way to hang out with their friends.

It’s important for kids to hang out with other kids, so cutting off screen time is actively isolating, damaging in ways that are far more concrete than screen time.

What we’re seeing has less to do with screen time and more to do with the age-old problems of teen social lives.

There are lots of healthy and social things you can do online, just like there are unhealthy and isolating things you can do offline.

It’s fine to worry about unhealthy spaces online, whether it’s eating-disorder culture on Instagram or incel sewers on Reddit — but the problem with those spaces is that they’re unhealthy, not that they’re online.