Have you ever heard of a place they call Whyville? If you answered yes, then that's AWESOME! If you answered no, let me tell you what it is. Whyville is a virtual website where you can play games, learn, chat with your friends, (and make new ones) make a look for yourself so people can recognize you by your look and by your user-name, making looks is also for variety in the site, you can design your own faceparts for people to buy, and much more! Check it out: www.Whyville.net.
Clams is the Whyville currency to buy things such as a Scion, (which is the Whyville car to buy) faceparts, Face factory Vouchers or FFV for short, Scion Decal Vouchers which is SDV for short, and decals for your scion. So many people have joined Whyville (and are joining still) it's almost un-real! SDVs and FFVs allow you to make scion parts, (decorations for your scion) or face parts. (Parts to decorate your face with) Whyville is a safe and enjoyable place to go and play at. They also have many sponsors for their learning games such as: Toyota financial services, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Texas workforce commission, Toyota Scion, Adobe Systems, The J. Paul Getty Trust, and NASA. They have many more though. They have also earned awards.
I have learned much from Whyville and have made new friends from around the World. In chat when you are talking you should be careful what you say... or you just might get taped! Tape is a kind of punishment for when you do something bad, it makes it so you can't say all you want to for a couple days. One of the things I like to do on Whyville is make music! Yes, you can make your own songs with the Private Studio or Group Studio. You can also buy pets on Whyville with the second currency, pearls. You can buy (and do) other things with pearls such as: almost everything clams can buy, animated parts, (Which are faceparts that move when you give the command) you can make your chat colored, you can renew faceparts, (because faceparts expire after 90 days.) and more!
I have been playing Whyville since 08 and still do to this very day. Whyville also does things for Holidays, they have done proms, (which is pretty goofy :D) summer parties, they have celebrated 4th of July, Thanksgiving, the start of school, Christmas, and others. Get this, Whyville has even had it's own concerts! I wasn't there to see it but I heard it was awesome. Whyville even has it's own Forum to discuss Current Events, Beauty & Fashion, Whyville itself, Sports & Outdoor, Health & Science, the Whyville Times, Games, Books & Writing, Money & Finance, Movies & TV, School, Music, Computers & Technology, Art, Dance & Theatre, and ask the City Workers. (City Workers are the people who work on Whyville and even go in chat sometimes! You can identify them by their red CW beanie) Yes, Whyville also has it's own Newspaper that the Whyvillians can submit articles for.
If you don't believe me Whyville has all this, and much much more, then go and check it out to believe it when you see it! Oh and here's something else, when you start out you only get the clothes that the CWs made for you but you can play games for clams to buy some new clothes. When just starting you should also check out the help page which is a green question mark at the top of Whyville. I hope this has been helpful and I say: GO WHYVILLE!