Meet and Greet those Happy Feet:
A Newsweek article early this year summed the club up in it's headline. Your Igloo or Mine?
Club Penguin introduces social networking for children. Club Penguin’s ad-free, monitored website meets a need for kid-safe spaces online, and encourages creativity from young users in a virtual community that combines game play and chat
Started in October of 2005, it had 4 unique million visitors by January.
"Registration is free, for your tween to teen (8 to 14) but your 8- to 14-year-old can waddle through a virtual world as a flightless waterfowl, interacting with other penguins of her choice. Registration is free, but if junior wants to decorate her penguin’s igloo or use other advanced features on the site, you’ll need to pay a $5.95 monthly membership."
