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The Illusion of Safety
This is a re-review of The Illusion of Safety
Its been a little over a month since The Illusion of Safety was first reviewed. Having read the original review back when it was written, I had some expectations going into this site. Hopefully there have been some improvements to the site since then.
Nope. No improvements. Well wait, I take that back. The author did get rid of the bouncing titles. Other than that, the site looks exactly the same. Same black background, same white text, same red links, same parental advisory above every single post.
Ok, so the author didn't change the design, maybe the content improved. Nope it didn't improve much either. The weblog is still about what is going on in the author's life, as told to his brain. He writes what he thinks, but the thoughts are on what has happened during that day, week, month, or however long it has been since his last post. Topics vary from school to friends to video games to movies. One good thing is that the author can write well. With a little better direction I bet it will be much improved.
One thing that really annoyed me was the fact that the author spoke as if he was the coolest blogger out there. Um sorry to break your bubble, but no. You are not God, you are not all knowing, you are a teenager! In one of his posts recently he states that he has been single for a while, and asks females to answer his little survey. Well when you have a question of the form "Have you posted your picture on Hot or Not? - If yes, send me your picture and proceed, otherwise stop cause you will be rejected" or something along those lines. Um let's think about this one for a second. On second thought lets, not.
One of the features that is supposed to be funny, but really isn't is his Hot Or Not captions. This is where he takes pictures from Hot or Not and then comments on them. This had potential to be good, but unfortunately all of the comments are predictable and kind of mesh together. Nothing too original there.
One last note I would like to make about this site is the lack of updating in the past couple of months. For someone who has written about wanting more comments, emails, and traffic, he doesn't fulfill his end of the bargain. Granted, the way the posts are written, I am glad there are only a few a week instead of a few a day as it made my job easier.
Overall this site is targeted at two types of people: friends of the author and teenage males. Anyone not fitting into either category is more than likely not going to enjoy their time spent. I understood the goal of the site, and I have to say that the author does achieve it, but unfortunately the goal just isn't what I am looking for in a weblog. The author can write well and is funny when he is not trying to be. I think after a couple more years of living, he will mature, and his blog will be something to read then. I hope the author takes these words seriously because he really is not testing his talents.
This site was reviewed on 2003-10-21 by Brent.
They felt this site belonged in the Teen category.
Brent felt that The Illusion of Safety deserved a rating of 2.
My initial instinct with regard to this blog is that it’s very simple. There’s nothing out of the ordinary, unless you count the "parental advisory" logo at the top of the blog. While I take this with a grain of salt, this may be forewarning for visitors that are faint of heart to not venture this way.
I avoided the recent entries in hopes of getting a feel for the author from the previous archives. I started with the very beginning. It is right for him to put the warning on his site, as there is a bit of language. For the most part this author sounds like your typical teenager with normal dislikes and likes. He talks about a concert that he went to and all the fun stuff that he experienced when Kid Rock came on stage, and the closing number with Aerosmith and Run DMC. This author speaks about how he’s "bored" more often than not, and he uses a lot of slang, so if you’re not up to speed on the language of the youth today, you might need a slang dictionary to decipher what this author is actually getting at.
Some of the entries are interesting enough that as a reader you’re not bored as well, but a lot of them are the same "hum drum" that most younger bloggers write about. He’s not a bad author, he just has a tendency to write as though he’s talking to one of his "homies," and while some are "down wit da lingo" other’s might not understand.
The design is very basic. It’s black with white text and red links. A visited link turns blue so you can’t read what it is after you’ve clicked on it. The titles are bouncing marquee’s which is annoying for most people who want to read some content. The archives, however, work, and so do most of the links (though there aren’t many of them).
There aren’t many bonus features on this site, which is kind of sad. There’s no "about me" page, there’s nothing to give you a little more understanding of who this author really is. If you hope to find a little bit more based on the entries, then you might find yourself reading an awful lot for nothing in particular.
The good content is hidden somewhere, but it’s rare and quite far between. The bouncing text is distracting, and the language is often hard to get around. Lucky for me I understand what most of it meant, but even then he used the strange spellings. I would’ve scored higher if there was something more to make this site worth a visit. Without being trite, this site is hard on the eyes, in more ways than one.
This site was reviewed on 2003-09-08 by firefly.
They felt this site belonged in the Personal category.
firefly felt that The Illusion of Safety deserved a rating of 2.
2 reviewers gave The Illusion of Safety an average rating of 2.0000
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