Noteworthy: Barbiegirls.com

Welcome to BarbieGirls.com℠ ! The Barbie Girls™ world is designed to be
a safe, fun, and exciting place for girls to play online. Once a girl
has registered with the site, she can create a virtual character,
design her own room, shop with B Bucks (virtual “money”) she earns,
play games, watch videos featuring her favorite Barbie™ movies and
products, and have real-time chats with other registered users. Our
sophisticated word filter keeps this chat appropriate for girls and
prevents personal information — such as your child’s name, phone
number, and address — from being given out to anyone unknown to you.

Barbie Girls

It’s in Beta now, and they have a great informational video on the mainpage.  Last week a large handful of people tossed this site my way.  I stay positively excited until it’s open publically and I can get a solid impression.  So far, so great. :) 

I’m disappointed at their use of “word filters”– but that seems to be the way of it these days.  Predictive text & predictive dictionaries are a bit frustrating, but alas… moderation teams = large overhead.  Maybe if Barbiegirl.com gets a great following they can open up the site to hands-on moderation, thus allowing for more freedom of words– what do I mean by this?  Nicktropolis uses the same technique and I found it wretched– words like “see” and “donut” were not available to use.  Uber lame.

Anyway, I always did love my barbies (I was a sad sap that played with ‘em until I was 14– privately, of course… nothing like being pegged as the “weird barbie girl” in hell– aka Junior High.  Barbies = a great way to creatively express stories & imagination.  That’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it).

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