my iMood: underimpressed
Written: Dec 09 '01 (Updated Dec 09 '01)
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Useless and just plain bizarre concept, not helped by a poorly designed site and what felt like pointless pimpage of badly designed, tacky merchandise - all in all eminently forgettable.
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I'm going to be brutally honest; I really don't get this at all. I signed up for this service just because my friend had the icon at the bottom of her personal homepage. She couldn't remember why she'd joined at all (she'd had her mood set to 'angsty' for about 3 months). So, being bored and wanting to put a semi-cute face on my homepage too, I signed up too, but when it comes down to it, only one of the faces suits my page's color scheme anyway and I can't even work out what moods some of them are meant to represent. Oh well. I can't quite understand why anyone else would do this without being bored or having their tongue quite firmly in their cheek.
The interface is really quite killingly simple, but I wasn't impressed, partly because the way the site is presented is really not very good. I've seen plenty of personal homepages with more pizazz (hell, I've designed better presented pages than this), never mind sites like this which offer a service. It didn't strike me as a terribly impressive site on first visit and returning it just seems even more thrown together - the script errors would be forgiveable on a personal homepage but not on a site like this which seems to want to be taken seriously, though I don't see how anyone can take something like this seriously for even a moment. I wonder how many of the users of this service signed up for the stunningly good reason that I did - the faces look kind of cute?
I'm not sure what I think of the 'the Internet is feeling... (insert adjective here)'. The Internet? The first time I saw this I really got the feeling that I'd stumbled into the wrong place. How can the Internet feel anything? Where's the explanation for where that information came from? And more to the point why would anyone want to slap the 'Internet' mood button onto their site? I only went back to the thing because I was bored and I wanted to check the script on my homepage was working.
Perhaps the worst bit of the site, however, is the paypal user account and the iMoods 'gift' store. Holy merchandising, Batman! I can't understand why *anyone* would want to buy any of that stuff let alone donate to such a silly site when they could spend their money on something more interesting, like groceries or bus tickets, but it seems that everyone and their grandfather is selling T-Shirts on the web these days regardless of whether or not there's actually a market for them. I just can't wish the people behind this concept well for this largely because the design of these products just screams 'slapped together'... I designed better shirts than that with fabric paints when I was a kid.
I couldn't be bothered to fill in the user page either... now I've got that useless bit of code on my page I can't quite work out why I bothered with it at all. It's a rather stupid concept. The idea that anyone might take this seriously astounds me. I can't see myself updating my iMood again unless I'm killing time.
The friend who told me about this site remarked that it was pretty useless at the time - after my brief acquantance with it, I've got to say I agree with her.
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kaochan
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Member: kaoru kun
Location: Somewhere in England
Reviews written: 5
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About Me:
Fangirlchan, geek and part-time Goth who likes listening to Japanese cross dressers sing.
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