An Australian mom has launched a social networking website for kids aged 8 - 12 years old. On realizing that she wanted a safe social networking website for her daughters aged 7 and 9 years old, she came up with the idea and contracted a Brisbane technology company to design the website. The website membership is free for first month, after which there is a membership fee.

Upon joining, the kids can choose one of the 10 native Australian animals as their avatar and one of the five houses as their residence. They start with 100 “ekidna gold nuggets” which they can use to dress up their avatars and decorate their houses. The kids have to maintain their own gardens and can trade-in their plants for in-game cash. It appears that kids can learn something about managing finances!!!

The built-in chats are monitored for foul languages and the safety feature includes parents entering a password everytime the child makes a new friend and no one can send out links. Also there is no advertising.

Sounds interesting and safe computer fun for kids!!!

Here are the links for the eKidnaworld.com and a detailed article about the website.

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