Contests for Status among (Club) Penguins

I find it interesting that in this Chicago Tribune article about cheating in the popular kids’ website Club Penguin, dishonesty is appropriately condemned while the “constant competition to have the coolest igloo and the latest fashions”, apparently one of the central attractions of the site for many kids, is essentially unquestioned.

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