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Club Penguin Online Gaming Community

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If you are looking for the safest place for your children in the Internet, then you might want to visit ClubPenguin.com. Club Penguin is a social network or avatar community that caters to the wholesome age bracket. Here, you can sign up for either free or paid membership to a penguin community where your children can interact with other kids who are also assuming penguin names, colors and personalities.

What is good about Club Penguin is its aim to provide parental control on kids’ exposure to online social communities. With Club Penguin, parents can choose the chat options for their kids. There is the Ultimate Safe-Chat which only allows your children to converse with other penguins using a list of standardized and controlled greetings, common questions and answers and the likes. Parents can do these because the website provides the parents with their own passwords so that they can change the settings of their children’s accounts based on their requirements.

The more usual chat mode aptly called the Standard Safe-Chat is indeed safe enough especially for older kids. With the Standard Safe-Chat, kids are already allowed to chat with other penguins freely but there are human moderators who are overseeing the conversations going on in the chat. This way, they can immediately filter out obscenity and profanity as well as bullying by banning the penguins who committed such depending on the weight of the offense.

Once you have signed up for the Club Penguin, your children can already get lost in the center of the penguin town where they can explore various rooms, environments, and establishments ranging from a café, a pet shop, a disco bar, and others. If your kids are not the type who likes to interact with other people in the virtual world, they can still enjoy Club Penguin’s fun games and interesting activities on the site.

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Club Penguin may not ensure that kids get to create long-lasting relationships with their virtual friends but at least they are exposed to this type of social interaction. In the long run, they get to learn net etiquettes and how to deal with different types of cyber people at a young age. Besides, social interaction through the internet is inevitable. Club Penguin provides a place for children to get the same exposure under the supervision of their parents.

Otherwise, kids can also enjoy a fun and wholesome environment where they can play around. Aside from that, kids get to earn virtual coins which paid members can use to purchase virtual clothes, outfits and igloo gears. For unpaid members, however, the virtual coins have limited uses so you might as well subscribe with the paid membership for only $5.95 a month.

With all these parental control and chat options, parents are assured that their children’s online activity are safe and worthwhile. The fact that you have to pay for it probably creates another headache for parents but when it comes to the children’s needs, we don’t have to compromise. Club Penguin is open for children ages 6-14 but adults are also welcome to try out this fun web environment.

Link | Club Penguin

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2 Comments

  1. is any body there

  2. Otunba bj
    4:05 pm on May 15th, 2009

    How can i be part of d club