A Review of Pet Society

The newest craze in social networking is Pet Society, a game to be played on Facebook and MySpace. Consider it to be Sims meets Neopets, the Facebook version. Instead of massive multiplayer online adventure games, you have a game for socializing called Pet Society.

Get your friends to visit your house and visit theirs when you raise your pet in a virtual world with Pet Society. Compete in different games to earn points to buy virtual items for your house and bring virtual gifts to your friends and their pets. Even compete against other pets in online games.

The point of the game is to amass trophies and add bling to your home. Earning trophies comes from visiting friends, buying stuff like clothes, and playing with your pet and competing against other pets.

The point is to interact with as many friends as you can to earn points and other stuff to accumulate more stuff. If I'm beginning to sound like a George Carlin routine, it's no joke. If enough of your friends gather in one place a house is constructed for you to gather and socialize and to get, well, more stuff.

Basically, simply exploring the world of Pet Society with your pet earns coins and points and levels up your pet. When your doggie or kitty is a socialite like Paris Hilton, then you know you've hit the big time on Pet Society.

Progressing up in different levels earns a bigger house and better stuff to acquire. This game is just like real life: your pet is the owner of the house and runs the show.

Pet Society, produced by British software company Playfish, has gotten so huge you can literally buy virtual money on the game with real money via Paypal. Just because Pet Society has gotten huge doesn't mean it has a big head. When you buy certain items in the Gift Shop you help support the World Wildlife Fund. Yes, you can buy real bling from the virtual bling game like t-shirts and other simple wearables.

I can absolutely see why people love Pet Society. It combines the best of the worlds of online gaming and social networking, two of the most popular avocations for modern denizens of our technological age. In an age when more of us are connected online, Pet Society is the craze that lets us safely inhabit another planet without leaving this one.