For Parents
YoVille is a fun place to be for kids, but keep in mind that it is also a place with frequently available chat areas with people of all ages all over the world. This is just a notice to let you know that reading through the places of chat, your kids may be making friends with people they don’t know. You can take precautions by reading what’s available to you below.

Read Your Messages
You can read your messages people send you by looking in the top right when you’re in your apartment. You will see an envelope saying Read you messages. Click it to view and reply to people.

Chat & Private Messaging
All you have to do to chat on yoville is click on someone walking around and click private message. At the bottom there is a bar you can write in, do that to chat. If you don’t want to talk to a specific person, just type in the box without clicking anyone and it will show publicly to everyone around you.

Visiting
People can also click you to visit and view your house, this is a good way to make friends, but also anyone can come in and chat with you privately but openly. If you are getting harrassed you can click them out of your house by clicking them and kicking them out.

Buddy List
You can find your buddy list by going to the bottom and clicking on the green and blue person (says buddy list when you hover). In the list is the people you’ve met in yoville and added them. You can add a buddy by clicking someone like in or in front of a shop and click add as a buddy, they have a few seconds to reply accept or decline. If they accept the box will just disappear and they will be in your list.