I was looking at this website called gURL.com. It is an online girls forum that was recommended on a parenting website as safe and "clean" space for young and adolescent girls to explore and socialize online with other girls their age. The website, I believe takes a number of security measures to protect girl members online, one of which is every time a girl-member sends a 'friend request' to another girl-member, parents of both girl-members are intimated via an automated email sent directly to the parents' in-box; and only after parents of both members consent by clicking a link provided in the email can the 'connection' between the two girls be possible.
The forum has got a lot of stuff on it for girls to keep them busy for hours at an end - bulletin boards, miniblogs and profiles, games, trivia, advices, quizzes and advertisements. I can totally visualize a 16 year old spending most of her leisure in here, playing games, making friends and learning important in the process.
"There's plenty to gain from becoming a gURL:
- meet new people from all over the world in our shout out boards
- become a gURL advice buddy (or find one)!
- create your own polls for other gURL members to take in the shout out boards
- get creative on our boards--you can post pictures and change fonts and colors in your posts!
- give and get advice from other gURLs in our advice gURL panel or on our shout out boards
- create your own room on gURL
- get your comics and stories published
- voice your views about everything and anything on our boards, in our dig or dis feature, or in clips about clips
- and there are many more benefits to come...
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| "Are you a back-stabber? Find out in this quiz." (From gURL.com) |
