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3 Interesting Facts About Club Penguin

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Club penguin is the first of its kind to be called a Massively Multiplayer Online Game that has a virtual snow world with a wide range of games. Though the membership is free for the tiny tots who join club penguin, this particular websites makes its revenue through one major form called paid membership. Free membership offers only the basic and limited access to the virtual world while paid membership offers much more. A paid Club Penguin member has access to shop virtual stuff online. Here are 3 interesting facts about Club Penguin.

History
This online gaming world was the brain child of Lance Priebe and Lane Merrifield who were employees of New Horizon Productions in 2003. The idea of Club Penguin was given birth and told to their boss by Lance and Lane when they had decided to create an online community for their kids. For kids between the age of 6 and 14 the club penguin is a form of social networking though this club does not restrict itself just to gamming. Kids can waddle about everywhere by using cartoon penguins as their avatars in the virtual world on this site and also new friends can be made. Having made close to $40 million within just two years, the owners decided to sell the company and off it went into the hands of Walt Disney in the year of 2007 for a total sum of $350 million plus another $350 million in bonuses if the site should meet specific targets. The presence of 12 million user accounts had been proudly claimed by Club Penguin by late 2007 and was still growing.

Safety
With kids in the mind the Club Penguine was created unlike the other social sites. Lance and Lane decided this particular site needs to be safe for their kids as well as other kids around the world who use it. The owners wanted to create a site that was safe for kids and the games were suitable for their age. For both paid and free club penguin memberships the following are the key approaches used by this site for the ensurance of their safety.
1 The players can only chat with a list of phrases that are alreday available ensuring the ultimate safe chat mode.
2 Inappropriate usernames are blocked
3 Automatic filter filters profanity and innocuous terms
4 The game site is policed by the paid moderator at all times.
5 There are veteran gamers who work as secret agents for this site and they report inappropriate behaviour.
6 In any chat room the following information is blocked by this site- name, telephone numbers, addresses and credit card information.

Free Club Penguin Membership
As stated before, Club penguin provides both paid and free club penguin membership. There would be a standard usage in chat rooms and with games for those with a free club penguin membership. But a paid club penguin member gets to shop virtual clothes for their penguins, patterns for their igloo and even get pets for their penguins.

Now what are you waiting for? Joining of your kids with the Club Penguin is safe. All the users on this site need not be children necessarily which must always be kept in mind. Hence adult supervision is advisable when kids are spending most of their time on this website. For your kids a safe virtual gaming world has been ensured by Club Penguin. Let's just make it safer for them. Hope you have fun and a good gaming time.