What's with "Webkinz"?  

That is very cool that the webkinz can play with each other on the website. That means my boys will have each other to invite over in the cyber world. Cool. Let me know if your daughter wants some new webkinz friends, and she can invite my guys' over.

The process of inviting others to your room is pretty difficult actually, it kind of sucks and I really hope they fix it and make it better. Right now they have several coloured zones that your are put into when you log in, you can only invite people within your own zone, you can't even see people who are not in your zone. You can easily change zones but you never know who is in what zone.

If you actually know the people you're trying to play with, all you have to do is ask them what colour zones they're in, right? Wouldn't that solve the problem?

Yes, so long as you know they are online and can contact them, in theory yes. My mother has three or four webkinz and on a number of occasions we have tried to set up meetings online, it has only worked once. The problem is webkinz has gotten so popular that the company can't seem to keep up with website demand. The changing of zones on demand is wonky at best, you pretty much have to go with random, what we have done is continually restarted the communications zone section until we matched colours. It took about twenty minutes. The reason the selecting a zone doesn't work is because they are usually all full.

I guess it's a good thing I have the two computers now.. that will double our chances of getting to where they want to be.

That does sound rather complicated for a kids online game though.