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All parent reviews for Whyville.net
Average rating based on 7 parent reviews:
- 71% say safety or privacy is an issue
- 71% say language is an issue
- 57% say sexual content is an issue
- 29% say it's educational
- 29% say there's too much drinking, drugs, or smoking
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This site USED to be a fairly good website but not anymore. My daughter complained many times to the workers there about inappropriate behavior such as virtual sex, talking about sex, positions for sex and blow jobs, pretending to drink, foul language and nothing is done. She was informed that there was nothing wrong with the behavior and to quit filing 911 reports (their name for complaint reports). She even had a boy ask her if he could rape her and when she did a 911 report she was told there was nothing wrong with what the boy did. There is no way any kid under 18 should be on that site.
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I love Whyville and still go on it. But it has gotten so pathetic with new kids and they always come up with terms like Licks, Blows, etc.. Sexual words... The kids also find ways to get pass the filters and end up figthing. I would not allow a child under the age of 13 to come on this site has innaproaite teenagers which curse, and think there the cools ones in Whyville. Another thing is kids take advantage and threaten people on the chatting rooms which is a big cyber bully. These lazy City Workers needs to wake up and bring the old whyville back. Message to City Worker your ignorants, stupid, and idiots for not doing such a goodjob. Somebody get new workers that actually handle a child website.
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Why bother with whyville?
I allowed my daughter to try this site and was disappointed. The graphics look 2nd rate and the site is not monitored closely enough. There is a type of restricted chat where you have to choose phrases from a list, and then there is a more open type of chat kids can do if parents sign a permission slip and snail-mail it in. Eventually she prodded and begged enough and i decided to allow her to access the open chat and sent in my permission slip. Whyville staff never responded. I emailed a complaint and waited.... In the meantime, I noticed a lot of mean-spirited comments being thrown back and forth, and kids finding creative ways to use swear words. Eventually I got an email from the staff saying that they never received my permission slip. There is also a lot of pressure to buy "clams" (currency) that is used to buy clothing and face parts for your character. I was not about to use my credit card on a site that is so poorly run. We decided to give up on whyville and try Disney's Pixie Hollow instead. It's an adorable site and lots of fun, and the customer service is terrific. They also have a pirate site for boys.
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This is not a safe site for anyone under the age of 18
They claim to be a child friendly and educational website, but the only educational thing you can find on there is sex ED. They let the kids talk about sex, drugs, drinking, and smoking. They let the kids pretend to have sex in the chatrooms, tell each other to go kill themselves, and they let a lot of harassment go on. They tape kids for telling homosexual kids they are not interesting in dating them, even if they do it nicely. They let the kids talk about nude pictures and porn sites, but if you talk about a website as innocent as the Hello Kitty website, you get in trouble. They also let kids over the age of 18 influence minors and harass them. This is not safe website.
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WHYVILLE SUCKS
I HATE WHYVILLE FOREVER!IT IS SO MAKING ME MAD THAT I CAN ONLY SAY ''HELLO'' AND ''HOW ARE YOU'' THATS ALL!AND ONE TIME,I WENT INTO A ROOM AND THIS BOY,LIKE,PUT HIS AVATAR ONTO MY BODY AND COVERED IT!HE WAS GOIN UP AND DOWN TO COVER MY AVATAR!HE WAS DRUNK AND STUPID!
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Beware
Half of the web site focuses on education, mostly science. The other half is devoted to socializing. Whyville users can skip the educational part completely by cheating the answers.
"Pick Your Nose" features face parts that one buys with money earned from playing educational games. If your face parts are not of a certain kind or arrangement, you are bullied or called names. There are snobby cliques and cyber preditors who misspell words to get around the language filter.
Y-Mail is a feature like email, but with a low caliber language filter. Even if one write in a clean way, the filter demands it be re-written.
If you have concerns about what kind of environment you want your child to subject themsevles to, then monitor their whyville sessions. Participate in the educational games with your child and it will bring a positive aspect of sharing learning together!
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