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 The Barbie Girls world is designed to be a safe, fun, and exciting place for young girls to play online. A child can join our virtual community, create an online character, design their own room, earn //B// Bucks (virtual “money”), play games, watch videos featuring her favorite Barbie™ movies, and chat with other girls in a controlled environment. They can also enjoy an enhanced Barbie Girls experience with a [|V.I.P. membership], which grants them access to exclusive areas on the site, and allow the child to adopt a variety of virtual pets, "spend" //B// Bucks, and play a number of members-only games.

[|The Barbie Girls] world is both interactive and entertaining for children, with an extensive amount of content for the children to play with, it is sure to be a hit with any young girl. The site provides information and support systems for parents to keep a watchful eye on their child's activities within the virtual world. Stating in their [|'Parent's only'] part of the site that Mattel have taken the necessary and appropriate measures to keep the child's information safe from potential predators.

The benefits of the site is create a social network online for young girls, they can interact online with one another while giving parents the option to be able to view all of their child's doings within the virtual world, however the site itself does have it's appropriate cons to all of these pros, the site really only accommodates to girls and reinforces the various stereotypes of what little girls should be the mall, beauty and "fashion, fun and friendship'

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