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Virtual World Smeet Sees Fluctuations in Users as Summer Vacation Starts

Smeet launched in September of 2010 and steadily climbed in monthly active and daily active users to a high of 582,000 MAU and 63,000 DAU between February and May 2011 when it first turned up on our list of emerging Facebook games. The game took a heavy hit to its numbers between late May and mid June, tapering down to just over 360,000 MAU and 32,000 DAU. We surmise that the drop coincides with school exams and finals, with the number of users picking up again in the last week now that summer vacation has officially begun.

The core experience of the game is to hang out and have fun by chatting, customizing your home and sharing your favorite YouTube movies. Smeet gathers information from your Facebook profile and populates a Smeet profile for you, displaying an avatar of your stated Facebook gender and your age and location. Your name and location may be changed in the game, but age and gender cannot. Clicking on another avatar displays that user’s profile, including Facebook profile photo, Smeet screen name, age, gender and location. Interaction tools range from animated actions (emotes) to private chat (whisper), as well as in-game messaging and friend invitations. In almost every public space, there are video screens streaming YouTube videos that players have shared.

Smeet Communications addresses the safety of minors with a page on their website and also a “For Parents & Teachers” category in their blog. There was an area in the game that the reviewer could not access because they were “too old.”

Players complete missions in the game which range from adding a location or uploading photographs to your profile to playing mini-games in specific areas. From missions, players earn badges as well as Fame Points that are used to level up your character and unlock new locations or rooms in your virtual home. Some mission rewards are paid out in coins, the game’s soft currency, which can be used to purchase customizations and other premium content. Mini-games abound in the world of Smeet and each shows a daily ranking when you access it. Like missions, some mini-games pay out in coins while others pay out Fame Points.

The 3D home building is not very sophisticated at time of writing. To move an object, players first have to put it away in their inventory, then walk their avatar to where they wish to place an object and access their inventory to place it, then save the room. Objects also come in boxes which have to be unpacked, some using many clicks, each spaced several minutes apart.

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To first clear the basic doubt, virtual chat rooms are nothing but chat rooms where a lot of people can talk at the same time to one another without disclosing their identity. These people can be anywhere in the world and the geographic positioning of the person does not affect the chatting at all. A person in India can talk to a person from the United States in one chat room. All you need today, to access virtual chat rooms is the Internet. Though you need to know some good chat rooms, you can always check and see for yourself. These virtual chat rooms have a lot of advantages, more than what we can ever think of. Listed below are some of them.

Advantages of Virtual Chat Rooms To talk to someone in a virtual chat room, you don’t need to be present there physically. This is the most basic advantage which we can come to know from the name itself. Another advantage is the exchange of free information. Most virtual chat rooms don’t charge you any extra money for talking to people there for any length of time you want. In some chat rooms, you can also play games like scrabble and cricket, while talking to those people at the same time. You not only increase your social circle by social networking through virtual chat rooms, you can also actually make some very good friends. The best part about these virtual chat rooms is that you have an option of using usernames and hiding your actual identity if you wish to and, disclose it later on when you are more comfortable, only to people you want to. If you are bored, you can kill time with this interesting option of virtual chatting.

Virtual Chat Rooms for Kids Virtual chat rooms for kids aren’t very different from the usual chat rooms. However, we know that kids don’t like chatting with teenagers or adults, so, usually you will find age specific online chat rooms where you can enter a chat room according to your age. One different thing about virtual chat rooms for kids is that there are many game applications which are usually of no interest to teenagers. Lately, a few years back a new concept was introduced. This was called 3D virtual chat rooms where you can actually chat as a 3D character. In simple language, instead of your usual name, you can also make a 3D character for yourself and dress it the way you want. Though kids should be taught about identifying good virtual chat rooms, there isn’t usually a problem if you stick to the most famous ones.

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