Doll Web Sites Drive Girls to Stay Home and Play
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Millions of girls are fueling the growth of interactive sites which offer virtual versions of traditional play activities.
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By The Associated Press  NEW YORK - As kids keep getting plugged into the Internet, toy makers are following them online.
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Mothers want to indulge themselves and at the same time bond with their girls.
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NEW YORK - As kids keep getting plugged into the Internet, toy makers are following them online.
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The popular social networking site for women in the dating world, www.DontDateHimGirl.com,  has joined forces with DivineCaroline.com, the flagship site of Real  Girls Media, to provide content for women.
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Also: The sound of hacked dolls' heads. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Children have always built their own fantasy worlds. These days, the Internet is making it easier -- perhaps too easy, some say.
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By Gretchen Losi, Daily Press, Victorville, Calif.  Sep. 16--VICTORVILLE -- Most children average five to six hours a day in front of the computer or television, according to childrentoday.com.  As a result, Web sites like Myspace, Gaia and Internet games plague many homes.
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About 35 percent of teen girls online blog compared to 20 percent for boys, but 19 percent of boys post video, nearly twice the percentage for girls, according to Pew Internet study.
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The knickknack makers of the world are ready to put your snapshots on candy, pillows, bobblehead dolls and more.
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As if porn sites and pedophiles in chat rooms weren&#039;t frustrating enough for parents whose children use the Internet, now online postings of amateur video featuring skin and violence are raising concerns. The explosion in online video-sharing sites, where clips of any nature can be easily uploaded for the world to see, has become the latest challenge for parents trying to protect their children and for Web sites coping with obscene submittals.
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Even in a virtual world on the  Internet, teens long to be cool. And what can be cooler than a  Ramones T-shirt on your self-styled Web persona?
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At an age when many girls are still playing with their Barbie dolls, Bindi Irwin has moved on to something a bit more challenging.
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On the Web, a parallel universe of tiny, adorable accessories for tiny, adorable dogs.
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At MTV's VLES site, kids in chat rooms are sipping on "virtual Pepsis." At Gaia Online, teens and 20-somethings are dressing up avatars in virtual Disney T-shirts. But is this strategy of "immersive branding" paying off for them?
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Surfing the net has become an  obsession for many Americans with the majority of U.S. adults  feeling they cannot go for a week without going online and one  in three giving up friends and sex for the Web.
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Preschoolers will be able to access the Internet safely, while older children might have more fun learning to play guitar, thanks to new toys due to be unveiled next week at one of the world's biggest toy fairs.