As a parent I cannot express how profoundly useful it can be for your child to find their 'people' at this age. Some people don't find their cultural match until college or even later.
And as I have told my kids, find one other member of your 'tribe' and you can find the rest, since finding someone who knows others like them is more common than discovering people who have yet to identify their common interests. I was lucky in that I discovered the 'hacker/makers/tweaker' community when I joined the Amateur Radio club in High School.
That is one of the greatest things about the internet: it makes finding your tribe pretty trivial, no matter your location or circumstances. Even if you grow up in the middle of nowhere in a homogenous social context, you can find a culture that intrigues you, learn about it from afar and then you have a direction in life when you leave home.
Of course it makes it easy to then isolate yourself inside that tribe as well.
And as I have told my kids, find one other member of your 'tribe' and you can find the rest, since finding someone who knows others like them is more common than discovering people who have yet to identify their common interests. I was lucky in that I discovered the 'hacker/makers/tweaker' community when I joined the Amateur Radio club in High School.