Monday, September 1, 2008

Exploring Another's Opinions

Very recently, I had the pleasure of exploring this website, and found it quite strange. At first, it looked like a very fun and heavily decorated site. Until I got further inside. I have to admit that it was infuriating to try to explore a website that's pages were constantly switching, and changing into a different page altogether.

The pages themselves were a different matter. The colors made my eyes hurt, using an almost mahogany red against teal blue. After about 25 seconds of what the authoress, Jenny Holzer thinks would be enough time to digest her interesting, poetic way of writing, the pages switch. With my computer, I had no idea what I was going to get, and with the colors constantly blending, it made for a bit of a headache.

Leaving the web pages, I set out to look for something else to point and click on, as is any one's first reaction, and there it had rows of radio buttons. None of them were really explained, except for a small blurb next to them about "Truisms". I thought it was a link to another (hopefully better colored) opinion page. But when I clicked yes (which was when I knew something was off), it just stated that I had joined how many people in realizing that that small statement was true.

...What!?

Sometimes, just for a while, I would like to know what I'm pushing on before I push it.

Of course, there ARE some pros to this site. The arguments the authoress is making, despite how many unnecessarily long words are in each page, making it near impossible for anyone of average intelligence to understand without whipping out their dictionary first to make sure a word is really able to be used like that, are strong. They make sense, and it's not as though she didn't think anything through at all. They're well thought out, defend themselves, make perfect sense.

But getting to them, and being able to read them all the way through... therein lies a bit of a problem.

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