I've decided to ditch the gURL.com website because I feel it's more for teens than tweens/kids and try out Club Penguin. The kids I babysit for, 10 and 8, are always playing on it or talking about it so I decided to sign up for it today. I've seen them playing it before but I don't know much about it other than it kind of looks like secondlife with penguins for children.
I signed up for a free account (there are paid accounts - I'm not sure what more you get with it) today and messed around with the site. It is definitely for kids as I has to "send an email to my parents" where they could click and allow me to use the site. I also found it pretty cool that parents were aloud to pick how there children could connect with others on the site itself by picking an ultimate safe chat or a standard safe chat. I picked the standard safe chat so I can hopefully see more of what the people are saying on the site.
I haven't figured much out about what the point of the website is yet or if there are certain things I'm supposed to be doing while I'm on it besides walking my penguin around but I do think the site does a good job of keeping its users safe. When I logged in and told the website to save my password, a screen came up explaining in simple terms what this might mean which I believe would be helpful to the kids using this site. Most (adult targeted) websites would never inform their users of the dangers of something like this so I think it's great that kids can learn it on Club Penguin and apply it to other websites.
Hopefully next time I'm on I can figure out how to play games and figure out how the "world" there works. There is a lot to see on the site itself but it's almost too big to me as a newbie as I don't know what to click on first. And maybe I'll post a picture of my penguin self :)
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