The first thing I saw when logging onto this website was an ad for getting a flatter stomach in 7 days. The next ad was for avon beauty products. Then as a I delved a bit deeper into the site I noticed much material too mature for girls under 13 or 14. There is much discussion of love and boyfriends. It is a nice looking site with some postive attributes but sadly they are marred by the mature content. I would not allow either of my girls on this site.
Miss O and Friends
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Common Sense says
Hip-yet-wholesome site with free and fee-based activities.
Why We Rated This 
for Ages 8 and Up
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What Parents Need to Know
This review of Miss O and Friends was written by Caroline Knorr
Parents need to know that this is a safe and fun web destination with a huge range of interesting activities, from art to games to cooking to crafts. While there are lots of free activities, a Club Plus membership (99 cents per month) provides access to other content, including customizable music playlists, safe social networking, email, contests and more.
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- Families can talk about what their daughters want to be when they grow up, and whether the site makes them feel like they can be a success in life. The site emphasizes writing and the possibility of being published in a book. Does that make you want to do creative writing on your own time? How do you feel about chatting with friends or playing them online, as opposed to visiting them in real life. Does it make you feel like you could say or do things you wouldn't do in real life? Or do you treat your friends the same online as you do when you're face to face?
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What’s the Story?
Started in 2005 by a teenager named Juliette Brindak, MISS O
AND FRIENDS uses a multicultural group of real-life friends as muses and
inspiration for its offerings, which encourage creativity, curiosity, and a
positive outlook on life. Designed for tween girls ages 8 and up, the content
finds a good balance between classic girl stuff like dress up and jewelry games and more constructive things -- practicing calligraphy, creating
recipes, and even writing stories and poetry -- which users can submit for
consideration for the Miss O and Friends books (sold at national bookstore chains). The site
recently introduced a new section for Club Plus members called Miss O My Way, which
lets girls create music playlists, play multiplayer games, chat with friends, ask for advice, and more.
Is It Any Good?
With so much to offer -- and such a finicky audience -- Miss O's presentation and site navigation is entertaining, organized and well-considered. The site's voice and tone is also commendable for its ability to talk to its audience without condescending or feeling snobby or clubby. The fun voice is consistent across the board, from its headlines to user instructions -- even its recipes (heaven on a waffle, for instance) all sound like they came from Miss O's mouth.
The site's tagline, "By girls, for girls" plays out in the effort Miss O and Friends makes to solicit feedback from its users. It also incorporates parental involvement and support. For example, in the chart listing the various levels of membership, each feature offered at each level is clearly marked – so there are no surprises. Parental approval is required for story submission, too. Screening and moderating of comments is pretty scrupulous, allowing the overall experience of Miss O to be positive, healthy, fun, entertaining – and a little educational, too.
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Most Recent Reviews
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Kids ages: 3, 6, 8
I rate this title iffy for age 14 and give it- My concerns are:
- Inappropriate sexual content
- Inappropriate language
- User content isn't age appropriate
Not okay for tweens
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I rate this title on for age 10 and give it
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- Educational
Girls Will Adore
An adorable website perfect for schoolage girls. I can guarantee that if Miss O existed when I was younger, I'd be on it everyday. There are fun games to play (although they can be challenging for younger kids), contests to enter (with fun prizes!), and links to Miss O stories and books. The only thing that is difficult is that kids send in questions for the crossword puzzles and such, and many don't make sense or are misspelled. Nevertheless, the website is practically flawless and great for girls!
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Awesome website!
Misso and friends is a fun website to play games on, read articales on, and a great place to go to let time pass. These are a few things Misso and friends has: Polls, articales, quizzes, stories, games, guides, advice, a cook book, scoops, diary, and you can also sign up on there and earn tokens to do contests safe for kids! www.missoandfriends.com
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this website is awsome
I totaly agree it's an awsome website for all ages and anybody that don't agree aspecialy grown ups YOUR ALL WRONG!!! and i feel strongly about this situation.
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AWESOME WEBSITE!
I go on EVERYDAY to earn points! Miss O even gives away FREE tickets to concerts like right now, THE JONAS BROTHERS!
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Love it!
LOL
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Great website for girls
missoandfriends.com is a great website for girls. it has a helpful advice column run by one of the site creators and fun contests where you can post your artwork and writing. parents should know that Miss O and Friends merchandise is avaliable on the site, but it is not possible to buy anything without a credit card. girls of ages 8-14 should consider joining!
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This is gooed
This webpage has stuff were you can earn points decorate stuff do puzzle buts doesn't let you talk to strangers mostly kids make the stuff but it has to be aprovede to make it to the finale round but kids don't vote what gets to the finale round the ppl do. But kids vote who wins the finale round.
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one problem
I love missoandfriends.com, but the only thing I dont like is the quizes. I mean no one wants to hear that theyre not a good friend or they dont believe in they theyreself! They results should make the kids feel happy! NOT SAYING YOU SHOULD LIE TO THEM!!!! Find stuff where you can make a truthfull quiz that makes them feel good about themselves!!!!!!!!!!!
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I laughed
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how great this website is
i go on this website all the time it is imformative it has no language good advice for kid my age this is a safe place for your child and great for learning about growing up
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it is stupped
there is nothing to do on there it is plane stupped
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Beware of Personality Quizes
Although the games are very age appropriate for 10 yr olds (even on the challenging modes), the language and social situations described in different personality quizzes suggests that the quizzes are for an older age group, such as 15 or older. Questions included many boyfriend references, and even used vulgar language (pissed) to describe an emotion. Short of participating in all of the quizzes to monitor the content, I would just steer my daughter clear of this area. It's too bad that the content is so much more adult, as many young girls like to take the quizzes as a way to get to know themselves.
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Perfectly fine for girl
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This is Fluff
Um, don't even bother. This has 10 minutes of activities, ug.
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