Right this moment, we’re excited to announce the rollout of two new options to make it simpler to seek out and join with associates on Roblox: Contact Importer and Buddy Suggestions. Experiences on Roblox will be extra wonderful and fulfilling when you find yourself with folks that you realize. Now it is possible for you to to import your cellphone contacts with Contact Importer and likewise uncover new connections with Buddy Suggestions. As with all of our options, we’ve taken the mandatory steps to rigorously check them over time to make sure a secure, high-quality expertise for our group.
Contact Importer
Customers can choose in to Contact Importer to simply discover and join with their real-life associates by importing contacts from their cellphone and matching these contacts with different customers on Roblox which have opted into letting their associates discover them by cellphone quantity. To make it even simpler, Contact Importer makes use of the identical contact names saved inside a customers’ machine to allow them to shortly acknowledge their associates on Roblox’s platform.
For instance, if somebody saves a quantity of their cellphone below the nickname “Large Sis,” the quantity will even seem to them as “Large Sis” on Roblox when importing their contacts. As soon as imported, this nickname shall be proven along with their Roblox show title on surfaces like their profile, making it simpler to maintain observe of contacts on Roblox. As a privateness measure, solely the person importing their contacts will have the ability to see their contact names.
To make sure privateness and security, customers can select whether or not others can discover them with their cellphone quantity – this supplies them clear management of their privateness choices, a step past trade requirements. Contact Importer will start to roll out to 13+ yr previous cellphone verified customers this week.
Buddy Suggestions
Buddy Suggestions present a listing of recommended individuals you could know and wish to join with on Roblox. With Buddy Suggestions now being featured on the house web page, customers 13 and older can simply overview these options and add associates instantly. This characteristic has been designed to advocate solely high-quality connections for our customers with contextual indicators. For instance, we might advocate a person with whom somebody has many mutual connections.
Experiencing Roblox By means of Connections
The imaginative and prescient of Roblox is to reimagine the way in which individuals come collectively. That is already taking place for our 58 million day by day energetic customers worldwide as they benefit from the number of experiences from our wonderful creators and join and hang around with associates – identical to in the true world. The rollout of Contact Importer and Buddy Suggestions is a vital step in serving to make it simpler for customers to attach, whereas persevering with to uphold the privateness and security of our community.