second life for kids - webkinz
While more and more adults seeking second life at secondlife, here is a place, webkinz, for kids too, actually, kids’ pet too. Actually, kids’ virtual pets. Well, not really, kids’ real stuffed pets’ virtual identities in virtual world. Anyway, it’s complicate for us adult but it’s very simple and natural to nowadays’ kids. Basically, here is how it works. You or your kids buy a stuffed animal. It comes with a secret code. Use that code, you get on to the webkinz site, which is developed using Adobe Flash, to adopt the pet. Once the adoption (aka, registration) is done. A “live” pet of the “real” counterpart is alive. Then, your kid needs to keep the pet happy by doing all kinds of activities with it. Of cause there are virtual money can be spent to buy things to make the pet’s life better. Plus, kids can hookup by visiting each other’s world. There are a list of pet types a kid can buy and adopt into the virtual world.
The thing is that today’s kids don’t distinguish between real and virtual. They pause TiVo or DVR without thinking there is recording involved because it just works that way in their life. They don’t think about “real” and “virtual” when play with the “pets”. It’s fun and it’s the way it is. Seems it’s easier doing business with kids. They play. They don’t analyze. Of cause, the business needs to be cool and fun.
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My daughter plays with that site. Once she said she was never going back to it. After a few questions I realized it was because she hadn’t
been there for a few days and was afraid if she went there her unicorn would be dead or something.
i think that webkinz iz really domb