The Virtual World of 7-10 Year-Olds: Club Penguin
With the Virtual World Conference in New York coming up in two weeks, I asked my 8-year old daughter, Rose Wax, to fill you in on Club Penguin.
Club Penguin
By: Rose Wax.
Club Penguin is a virtual world (just like Second Life) where you waddle around villages and towns and meet new people. There are places where you and friends can meet and there is a map that can teleport you to different places in the Club Penguin world. You play a penguin that has a name and when you waddle they show your name below your penguin. There’s a chat bubble so you can talk and there are icons you can talk with. There are also keyboard shortcuts that can make your penguin do dance moves and different icons. You earn coins (money) by playing games like cart surfing, pizzatron 3000, ice fishing, sled racing, mancala and find four. You buy clothes for your penguin and furniture for your igloo you can also buy puffles (penguin pet) and stuff for them. There is a newspaper that you can read it has tips and riddles and jokes and poems. Club Penguin is really popular a lot of kids and sometimes adults have accounts the more penguins there are the merrier!
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March 19th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
thanks rose!
March 19th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Hi Rose,
What a great post! I hope you can pop by the office soon and give us a tour of Penguin Club from the master herself.
Thanks!
March 20th, 2007 at 8:57 am
Rose, you forgot the part where one penguin yelled at you and told you to “Get out of my Igloo!” That you had to report her and that Club Penguin practices fairness…”use your words but use them nicely”. How do you pick out a name and how to you find out what your friends’ names are and how to get to their igloos? Mom.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:57 am
omg!! everyone loves club pengin!!! i think it is stupid!! i hate it all u do is mke a syupid penguin and play games….it would b better if every one can buy dtuuf out of the catolog not just members! if u r a member u hav to pay!
i think zwinky,imvu, or meez it much betta
September 8th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
January 27th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Club penguin sucks! I don’t know why everyone likes it! You ahve to pay to get clothes, which stinks
Club penguin would have lots more members if you didn’t have to pay. Why can’t people stick to normal chat rooms, like MSN, you don’t have to pay for that. Nor do you have to pay for just simple emails! Honestly!
February 7th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
yeah lottie im with ya I mean e-mails and msn is wayy better than CLUB STUPID PENGUIN!! i mean COME ON!!!
February 9th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
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February 10th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Rose: is that text messaging for Whatever?
February 18th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
where do we chat?
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:56 am
Is there any others?
February 26th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
I have club penguin, but i used to be a member, i’m not now ’cause i’m a member on habbo instead! shame really!
February 26th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Rose great blog! I’ve already signed up to club penguin, but i still love this blog!
March 1st, 2008 at 9:58 am
Not mant people are makin’ messages! But oh well
June 29th, 2008 at 7:17 am
hi who knows rose goad, alfie cork simpson, patrick mcnulty, liam, head?
fom mwah
June 29th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Hm?
July 7th, 2008 at 2:49 am
i have a club penguin, but its litterally a dating website. All ANYONE says is “any Boyzzz?” Or “any Girlzzz?” No im not exaderating with the zzz thing! Gawsh its soo annoying
July 8th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
I have never used Club Penguin, but I’ve met the investment banker who funded it. And I want to drive up the stats on my daughters post here.
July 8th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
…And by the way, she’s 10 now!
July 9th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Hannah- Gosh, exaggerating, literally, perhaps you are one of them?
July 20th, 2008 at 6:43 am
arrrrgggggg as people say cool
July 22nd, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Is that arrggg like in a pirate? Or alt reality game?
August 6th, 2008 at 2:37 am
rose where do you live and I mean the country because I live in Australia and the time on this this site and the month too because its the 7th of Aug and what you send me is very weird and I don’t understand it
August 6th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
I was talking to other people. I don’t go on club penguin anymore
August 9th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
theres this place called dizzywood you should check it out everyone
August 9th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
August 19th, 2008 at 10:06 am
club penguin is boring go to there.com its a rule free site that u can ride rockets planes copters buggies ect but u have to download it ow well visit it anyway plz!!!
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:10 pm
it is not fair to e a member to buy clothes for your penguin. so that is why i do not go on it anymore. it is NOT FAIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 5th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
hi cool kiddies whos got msn tell me ur adi
October 5th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
hi can i have ur adi
October 8th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
hi
October 8th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
are you going to talk to
October 30th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Hire me as a junior creative!
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-swi