Fourth Story Media

Teen Lab is a research program that gets kids to talk about their end-user experiences with technology. Recently they asked Quinn to talk about social networks.

Her rundown:

• Webkinz: Old news. Used to play “a while ago” but has since moved on.
• Club Penguin: Used to have a paid membership but no longer. Now just uses it to chat with friends.
• Polyvore: (A scrapbooking-esque site where you can pull pictures off the web and turn them into “sets” that users then comment on and favorite.) Loves it. Found out about it from her mom 8 months ago.
• Teen Second Life Quinn defines it as a cross between Club Penguin and Sims 2.) Still figuring it out, but liking it so far.

I downloaded the Polyvore clip tool to try it out. Images are super easy to pull, but on some there’s a lot of distortion when you add them to your set.