Research Blog #5

http://www.webkinz.com/
The webkinz home page shows a colorful, fun and exciting place to play and shop. It has a lot of ways that attract children to its site. Its media at its best. By having all these exciting fun things for children to look at and want there parents to buy for them. There are games kids can play and when you purchase any webkinz you receive a code to punch into their page and then you get to play and take care of your animal on line. The webkinz website seems like a great place to allow your child play on, but all it is really doing is allowing your child to see many different webkinz that they want. They make it seem like it's supposed to be an educational type of site. I don't believe that it is really that kind of a website.

By giving the codes on every webkinz stuffed animal that you purchase is a easy way to get children acquainted with the website. The website is so easy punch in your code and you have an animal in a house that you have to take care of, dress, feed and many other things. There are so many different things to do on this website but if your not careful it may cost the parents money. It seems like a simple site for children to enjoy, but it seems to me that it is fun for kids and easy for them to operate. But what I really feel is that the colorful, exciting site is an easy way for children to make a want list for their parents. Its a target for children to have their parents spend more money on the website and in stores. So the colorful site for children is really a site to try and get people to spend more money. It's a huge trap to get people to spend more money.