[Air-l] social networking and habbo dot com

has anyone done any research on the habbo.com phenomenon or others like it? It is a "safe site" for kids 13-18 years old where they create avatar characters and rooms for them, play games and chat. If anyone has information about other sites like this (I'm currently looking into yub.com) or any information about articles on social networking that take place in these kinds of spaces, I would love to hear it. I could probably also use references that survey children's computer use and studies of gendered behavior online. thank you all so much for this great list. Deanya Lattimore ABD Syracuse, Composition & Cultural Rhetoric http://www.deanya.com/