Catching Neopetitus

Published on March 1, 2005 By Death_By_Beebles In Misc

It was amazing. It was strange. It was fun and it was my personal little secret. No one knew it. No one dared to know it.

I played Neopets.

What was first a small community of players on a small set of servers has now quickly become a global experience with a full time staff. You have a pet. Buy it books! Train it to fight! Buy cool foods for it! Play games, build a house with your Neopoints, the Neopets currency. Collect trading cards, play the lottery, buy scratch tickets, collect rare items!
Neopets is a complete little world, with it's own stockmarket, it's own shops and homes, markets and exotic vacation spots all just a click away. It's completely free, with only a bit of minimal advertising involved. And it's so very very addictive.

I used to play constantly. I would be on Neopets 10-15 hours a week, constantly buying and selling items, playing games, and generally making friends, making Neopoints, and having a darn good time.

I bring this up because some of the patrons of the library play Neopets constantly on the library computers because it is pretty graphics intensive. They love it. They spend tons of time talking about it. I talk with them about it. It's almost a cult appeal, except it's games and fun are completely harmless, and oh yeah, no animal slaughter or drinking "magic Kool-Aide". Know the kids down the street with the Hello Kitty obsession? That guy that collects all those comic books? Hah. They don't got nothing on the Neopets crowd. It's like a disease!

Ah, and for the addicted, I have a level 14 Disco painted Kau. His name is GetoMoo!

Check out Neopets. Maybe you might get addicted

Selfish plug now... If you feel you wish to join, click that link right there below this, and it helps me out

Link

Peace,

Beebes

Comments

Zoologist03

on Mar 02, 2005

Heh, I've had a bit of an addiction to it...I've been on there, going on about 6yrs now, I think. I don't visit as much as I used to, but I stop by from time to time....I just can't let it go

~Zoo

carebear07

on Mar 02, 2005

I just joined the whole neopet thingymabob. I'm really bored and I figured it would give me something to do. My neopets name is smilingkitten1007 and it's an Ixi. This whole thing is quite interesting.

~carebear~

carebear07

on Mar 02, 2005

Ok, I've only been on the thing for about an hour or so, and I'll have to say that it's already pretty addictive! It's awesome. But so far the only things I've done are make a neopet and adopt one, and right now I have them both in a hotel.

~carebear~

apdelong31

on Mar 04, 2005

I need a new website to prowl, JU is losing it from me and I'm not very good at finding my way on these big intarwebz.

carebear07

on Mar 04, 2005

Well the whole neopet thing is very interesting. You should consider it Andy.

~carebear~

Zoologist03

on Mar 04, 2005

Andy, I think you might like it rather well...I mean it gives you something to do anyway...and is that not what brings us to the web? Something to occupy ourselves with...whether it be porn, jokes, games, online communities, stories...wow, so many things...I've got to stop reflecting on everything, it's kind of annoying....oh well, I like to make people think

~Zoo

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