After a quick google search, Google surprised me with quite a lot of results for social media than expected. One of them however called my attention named “Habbo”. After a quick look around, I found out that Habbo is a social media that takes place in a virtual hotel, where you can interact with other pixelated people/avatars, somewhat like in a video game. Additionally, real money can be spent to purchased Habbo currency to buy items on the website. The Habbo social media is owned by a company named “Sulake”, the company founded by Helsinki, Finland in May 2000, the current CEO is Valtteri Karu. I do not seem to find any major impacts on the voice of members upon the companies origin, rather mostly all social media stick to certain era servers native to them. Despite the game been pixelated and looks somewhat for kids, this game is intended for 13-year-old or above. Upon research, I found that in 2008, the company added options for those who are 13 to disable censored content. However according to Habbo, even if the censor filter is turned off, there is still a great amount of content been censored due to the age restriction. Additionally, Habbo even provides safety tips and a parent's guide about how Habbo operates among comment questions and other useful information for parents. More or less, the question is, should it be this way, or should there be more censorship? I personally think Habbo's censorship idea is great, social media do not have the job to be guardians or to be parents. They are here to provide a service and content, not to monitor every user 24/7; it would be too expensive and time-consuming. Rather is up to parents whether they allow their children to have an account or not as to any financial funds to social media.
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