Awesome websites: Neopets.com
Installment #1 of my awesome series of awesome websites.
Seriously? I’m blogging about Neopets? Yep.
Never heard of it? If you’re under age 20, you have no excuses. But if you’re not, I guess I could fill you in. For a more complete description, check wikipedia. Neopets is a free virtual pet website in which users create cute cartoonish virtual pets and feed, play with and even dress them. This virtual world has a currency called Neopoints which users earn from playing games or selling items. Neopoints can get you items, which can feed, entertain and “paint” your pets. Pets come in many, many colors from the basic solid colors to the more expensive exotic ones such as baby and desert. You can interact with other users in messages and trades. It’s basically a giant game with more aspects than I can think to list here.
In some ways Neopets is geared toward kids, but in other ways it isn’t age specific. This may very well have been the first website I ever visited by my own will when I was in fourth grade. As you can imagine, many hours of my life have been invested in this. I still log on occasionally and check things out. Things are constantly being updated and improved. If you’re already a player, I do have a pretty impressive account (if I do say so myself) right here. I tragically lost the password to my first account in a computer switching incident, so this account is slightly newer than described. If you’re not already on, you should totally click this banner and sign up. All the cool people are doing it.
