• Is it age appropriate?

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  Not age appropriate for kids under 16, age appropriate for kids over 99; suggested age 16.

• Is it any good?

  1.0

• Common Sense says

  This unmonitored online world has real problems.

Why We Rated This for Ages 16–18

The good stuff

• Educational value:

  While creating, buying, and selling virtual products may be an educational exercise in business skills, this site is clearly inappropriate for most teens, even though it's open to them.

What to watch out for

• Messages:

  This site is supposed to be a "synthetic world" where users buy, sell, and trade virtual products, including houses that they can design and "build." Tools to build stuff are free, but once you want to save them on the site, you have to pay with "fake coins" using a real credit card.
• Violence:

  This site isn't monitored for content. One user created an avatar-type image of "my ex-girlfriend" with wounds and blood streaming down her face.
• Sex:

  At registration, users can choose from a man or woman avatar -- who are completely naked and anatomically correct. Users can buy and sell stuff, including real photos of girls in bras, posing suggestively. One user asked if another had a photo with "no bra...I'd prefer naked." Sexual language bantered about as well.
• Language:

  Swearing and rude, sexual language. For example, "Come to da booty house and get some p---y."
• Consumerism:

  Besides buying the fake coins with real dollars, this site is loaded with professional music videos and people hyping their stuff.
• Drinking, drugs, & smoking:

  None observed.

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