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Where "these worlds" includes both virtual worlds and the corporeal world we live in day-to-day? I'd be hard pressed to defend an argument that the Habbo Hotel marketing strategy is markedly less child-exploitative than that of McDonalds or Disney.
at least they're not creating a new generation of obese kids...
needless to say i have now blocked every version of habbo and warned my friends and family who's children use the site.
Moderators are online 24 hours, 7 days a week and can be alerted of bad behaviour via the Call For Help button from anywhere in the chat room. Players may also use this function to request assistance.
Habbo notably try hard to educate it's younger and new players about being safe online. If you explored the website and got involved in the regular activitiy you'd notice a lot of this.
In my opinion, Habbo is probably one of the safest and most reputable environments for kids online.
About the Public Room bots - these are there to make the experience seem 'real' in my opinion. You can chat with them to some level, and of course, they have certain phrases depending on the rooms environment.
A bot in a Cafe may say "Try our sandwhiches"; where as one in the Pool area will say "Take a dip!"
Judging by your lousy grammer, spelling and communications skills, I'd say your children have more to fear from being raised by you than they do from being on Habbo Hotel.
Oh and everyone: HH is aimed at teens, not kids.
bubbles.411 and i'm im hc
non-existent things, but the kids still buy them.
Wsq
USA Hotel
www.habbo.com
helen - September 4, 2006 Mabey Your Children Play Habbo Beaucos They need An Escape From there Real Life It Is Not Habbos Fault Youre Children Choose 2 Talk 2 Total Strangers Then There Own Mother That Would b Somthing Wrong In Your Department Not Habbbos && Further more. If The Children Are Simply Informed Of What Can Happen && not Told "THEY MUST NOT GO ON THE SITE" They Would be More Cautious. Simply telling them no would make them more Inquistive && Make Them Want 2 You As a Responabel mother Would Already Know that ?Isent That Right
Soo As i Leave I Leave By Saying Inform && discuss Not Block && Say No
Judging by your lousy grammer, spelling and communications skills, I’d say your children have more to fear from being raised by you than they do from being on Habbo Hotel."
-Agreed.
Also, to everyone who thinks Habbohotel is good: it's not. It's the internet's biggest scam. "Predator free" - apart from the people who run it. $77,000,000 a year? Crazy. What do they sell? Nothing. You send off to some premium phone line, get a few dozen credits for about £3 a go, to spend on things that aren't there. Pixels in cyber-space. They make big bucks from running a few servers.
They talk to people in the "newsie" like they're all 9 year olds, saying that Xmas furni's out, go beg your parents for credits. And, like slaves, they do.
They say your account cannot be hacked on Habbo; another lie. Any computer expert will tell you on sight this is a lie. Of course an account can be hacked. If someone managed to hack the US Pentagon, they can hack a pathetic chat site aimed at pre-teenagers.
Like:
ASL
(Age/Sex/Location)
I PLAY HABBO HOTEL
I PLAY HABBO HOTEL
I PLAY HABBO HOTEL
I PLAY HABBO HOTEL
-habbo name is - Fun:Pop
The sulake company may know that many of their usersers have to call and not tell their parents about the charge they are raking up. to be honest i am suprised they let them play at all without playing.
i don`t know why their isn`t a succsesful website like "habbo hotel" that allows it`s users to make their own furniture instead of having to buy it with real money. at least then their creativity would be used instead of being wasted on changing you to u.
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I am currently duplicating furni so send your username and password to k_mog@hotmail.co.uk
I LOVE HABBO HOTEL
Big up Habbo Hotel!
user:bbgirl100
pass:bbgirl101
if this is a scam im gonna report u please i need 500 coins so when u get on this website please give me 500 ok please i need some
i want no scam no getting me banned from habbo.no removing my friends ;on habbo no deleting my rooms ok i want 500 coins k
why don you give u stuf
ps its all FREE
i love habbohotel its so cool but i think its not fair when you spend alot of money and you played the ganes for ages and yu manged to get rich and some person comes alone and takes it all away i think thats so unfair, ADD ME .x.R@inBow.x.
if you want some e-mail me at sraffterman@yahoo.com and i will share some of the glory i just need your name and pass
I am 12 now but I started when I was 10 because I saw my sister playing it and it looked good.
so you shouldn't be on habbo or you will get banned. kids think it's good and it's better than this gaia and there and that lot, geez!
p.s my habbo is cath1994
it is sooooo annoying when little kids come on it cos their usernames are something like Hannah1996 and they get banned
Ps: The habbo that was banned with me.
LOL
theres this fly and it keeps coming to my nose
LOL
MI NAME IZ SARAH AND I GO TO **** AND IT SUCKS GOAT HE HE LOL
MI BESTI IZ LYDIA
on you house phone
ring up 09013640030
and when she askes for
the code type 13315096
and if she says if its
right to press one
you have to press one
do it over and over
again and you get loads of credz she says its one pound but its not coz it free coz i cheked my phone bill and it cost nothink soo quick go and do it and be rich
its a great way to keep in touch and alot better than msn
And perhaps if you were half decent
you wouldn't judge it without trying it.
LOSERS
" either theyve closed down or theyve been hacked"
i think its awesome but some sites are a bit better U Rock habbo But U WILL ALWAYZZZ ROCK HAB-CITYYYYY U Should go on it >>www.hab-city.com
I Think yesterday it didn't work or it was under construction and i have got it on but it just won't load PLZZ TELL ME WAT TO DO COZ I LOVE HAB-CITY ITS THE BEST *Bye*
i think its awesome but some sites are a bit better U Rock habbo But U WILL ALWAYZZZ ROCK HAB-CITYYYYY U Should go on it >>www.hab-city.com
I Think yesterday it didn't work or it was under construction and i have got it on but it just won't load PLZZ TELL ME WAT TO DO COZ I LOVE HAB-CITY ITS THE BEST *Bye*
i think its awesome but some sites are a bit better U Rock habbo But U WILL ALWAYZZZ ROCK HAB-CITYYYYY U Should go on it >>www.hab-city.com
I Think yesterday it didn't work or it was under construction and i have got it on but it just won't load PLZZ TELL ME WAT TO DO COZ I LOVE HAB-CITY ITS THE BEST *Bye*
i think its awesome but some sites are a bit better U Rock habbo But U WILL ALWAYZZZ ROCK HAB-CITYYYYY U Should go on it >>www.hab-city.com
I Think yesterday it didn't work or it was under construction and i have got it on but it just won't load PLZZ TELL ME WAT TO DO COZ I LOVE HAB-CITY ITS THE BEST *Bye*
i think its awesome but some sites are a bit better U Rock habbo But U WILL ALWAYZZZ ROCK HAB-CITYYYYY U Should go on it >>www.hab-city.com
I Think yesterday it didn't work or it was under construction and i have got it on but it just won't load PLZZ TELL ME WAT TO DO COZ I LOVE HAB-CITY ITS THE BEST *Bye*
So Habbo might be a place for exploiters and pedophiles. But so is every other virtual world on the internet, and furthermore, habbo have taken strong steps so protect people, and are still taking more.
Thank you for reading
Strife840
REPLY FOR GREAT SEX ON HABBO.COM!!
roxy1052 go to any of her rooms and leave any furni you like and leave a message on the stiki sayen it was u and she will double it AT FIRST I THOUGHT IT WAS A SCAM BUT U WILL SEE!!!
roxy1052 go to any of her rooms and leave any furni you like and leave a message on the stiki sayen it was u and she will double it AT FIRST I THOUGHT IT WAS A SCAM BUT U WILL SEE!!!
and i think they should not charge for credits as most of the users are youngsters and we could argue over the fact they are spending there own money on here.
i have been on many sites which have made there own habbo hotel 50 credits a week...500 when u start free hc furni etc. i think i would rather be on that then spend £3.00 for every 35 credits.
code: 3411297
English line 1-900-677-4111
Français line 1-900-930-4222
NEED A GUY TO GIVE A GREAT TIME AND BAD, NAUGHTY AND DOESNT MIND MY BIB BOOBS,ASS AND my rocking body. Thankz!
I found the game alot of fun when I was about ten But as I got older it lost the fun factor.
This site is meant to be directed at teen society But I think many kids go on it too. There are alot fo pedafiles on any online game and thats just a risk any parent takes when letting there kids on the
internet I meant its just there nothings going to change that fact that there are adults who are targeting kids to take advantage of them.
My honest opinion on habbo is well Not so great. This is qouted off my site www.habboquest.net from my own personal blog
Hey guys have you ever just gotten sick of habbo ?
Well that sort of happened to me yesterday. I just had enough of everything and everyone in it. Seriously habbo sometimes just takes over your life. And think about it there could be so many other great things you could be doing with your life! I mean especially when your likely to get key logged or hacked at least once in your entire time on habbo, whether it be small or a large amount taken. People online loose there respect because of the no face to face value. They dont care and to tell you the truth I bett none of you really really care either.
All us habbo goers ever do is just sit on our fat little asses and play in a virtual world. WHY AREN'T WE SOCIALISING WITH KIDS OUR OWN AGE! are we the bottom of the real world society ? What makes us come on each day after school and instead of doing our home work we come on and talk to people we hardly even know at all. Do we have friends ? WTH has the world turned into.
Society has gone haywire .
Please ask yourself why you play this game ? Really why ?
I can only think of a few facts.
1. Your extremely lonely
2. Your insecure
3. Your not a very nice person and no one likes you
4. You dont feel like you can communicate with people
5. You feel safer in an online environment
I mean seriously WHY do us as teenagers play this game ?
Most of us would never tell our real life friends that we play habbo because habbo's become known as a gay little online game for loners and pedophiles.
Is it a clever marketing scheme that sulake corporation came up with ?
And the answer is yes I think so.
I personally think habbo is there for the ignorant insecure people...
And when we get too smart for companies and advertisements we begin to drift away from the clever commercial pedophile of todays teenage society. Sulake in my opinion is raping the teen world of its money.
Its taking advantage of the adolescences of the world.
So soon I think we all wake up to this fact but then its too late to stop the addiction.
Its almost like a drug. It consumes you. YOU must go on and check your messages, YOU must go and comment on ERICYUM'S home page or YOU must have that peice of pink furni it would totally suit your room!
And in the end you've spent so much of your real life earnings that you think "Wouldn't it be a waste to leave the game now ? Ive wasted so much money I might aswell keep playing the game." And so the cycle continues on and on...
That is until the real world catches up to you. To think about how many relationships Ive lost because of being on habbo... So many relationships could've grown and become more. But no I stayed on habbo and talked to virtual people on a virtual hotel that are in the end only pixelated forms of who they want you to think they are.
How sad is that ? I know really really sad.
In the end most of us finish playing habbo at around about the twelfth grade. Why? Because usually we have too many commitments in school and we also want to get good grades. Well some of us that is. Only the smart one's who want to succeed in the real life world of cars and monkeys.
So basically habbo and sulake is there to steel money from little kids.
Thats my bitch on the world at this point. And its 1:36 am in the morning and this is how im feeling.
Hey guys have you ever just gotten sick of habbo ?
Well that sort of happened to me yesterday. I just had enough of everything and everyone in it. Seriously habbo sometimes just takes over your life. And think about it there could be so many other great things you could be doing with your life! I mean especially when your likely to get key logged or hacked at least once in your entire time on habbo, whether it be small or a large amount taken. People online loose there respect because of the no face to face value. They dont care and to tell you the truth I bett none of you really really care either.
All us habbo goers ever do is just sit on our fat little asses and play in a virtual world. WHY AREN'T WE SOCIALISING WITH KIDS OUR OWN AGE! are we the bottom of the real world society ? What makes us come on each day after school and instead of doing our home work we come on and talk to people we hardly even know at all. Do we have friends ? WTH has the world turned into.
Society has gone haywire .
Please ask yourself why you play this game ? Really why ?
I can only think of a few facts.
1. Your extremely lonely
2. Your insecure
3. Your not a very nice person and no one likes you
4. You dont feel like you can communicate with people
5. You feel safer in an online environment
I mean seriously WHY do us as teenagers play this game ?
Most of us would never tell our real life friends that we play habbo because habbo's become known as a gay little online game for loners and pedophiles.
Is it a clever marketing scheme that sulake corporation came up with ?
And the answer is yes I think so.
I personally think habbo is there for the ignorant insecure people...
And when we get too smart for companies and advertisements we begin to drift away from the clever commercial pedophile of todays teenage society. Sulake in my opinion is raping the teen world of its money.
Its taking advantage of the adolescences of the world.
So soon I think we all wake up to this fact but then its too late to stop the addiction.
Its almost like a drug. It consumes you. YOU must go on and check your messages, YOU must go and comment on ERICYUM'S home page or YOU must have that peice of pink furni it would totally suit your room!
And in the end you've spent so much of your real life earnings that you think "Wouldn't it be a waste to leave the game now ? Ive wasted so much money I might aswell keep playing the game." And so the cycle continues on and on...
That is until the real world catches up to you. To think about how many relationships Ive lost because of being on habbo... So many relationships could've grown and become more. But no I stayed on habbo and talked to virtual people on a virtual hotel that are in the end only pixelated forms of who they want you to think they are.
How sad is that ? I know really really sad.
In the end most of us finish playing habbo at around about the twelfth grade. Why? Because usually we have too many commitments in school and we also want to get good grades. Well some of us that is. Only the smart one's who want to succeed in the real life world of cars and monkeys.
So basically habbo and sulake is there to steel money from little kids.
Thats my bitch on the world at this point. And its 1:36 am in the morning and this is how im feeling.
can anyone donate me some credits or fruni i m verry poor !!!
a kol ting
:::..:Jess:..::: and ill get back to u as soon as possible
I think its good charging for coins but i think there worth alot of money,,, i also think its stupid how you get scammed and carnt get anything done about it :S
Well i lovr habbo and spend alot of my cred on coins
Nesesito urgentemente
·$ -100- creditos
debido a que le debo $-50-
a mi exsocio y $-50- para
poder salir de la pobresa....
gracias se despide
habbo: gibran587