With Barbie, if you want clothes, it costs money. You can do it on the Internet for free.”

–9 year old girl, quoted in today’s NY Times story about doll and dress up sites and their allure for kids, particularly tween girls.

(Susan sez: This story has the great point that these sites are essentially “Facebook or MySpace with training wheels, aimed at an audience that may be getting its first exposure to the Web.”)