The first of more than a dozen similar video game addiction suits was voluntarily dismissed last week, though its (rather ignominious) end didn’t test the litigation’s central theories.

Discord, Facebook, Snapchat, and Roblox are the targets of a child safety lawsuit alleging they include addictive or harmful features that allowed an adult user to connect with and abuse a child.

While I might be more in-tune than the average adult with the metaverse conceptually, our kids are the ones building it. Here’s what my kids’ Roblox addiction taught me about the metaverse.