Tween/Kids Websites

For my practicum assignment, I have to explore a, "tween/kids community." Upon my google search of, "tween community," I've found gURL.com, a website that seems to be dedicated to tween/teen girls. There is definitely a lot of links to click and things to do on the website, almost to the point that I didn't know where to start.

The first thing I decided to do was listen to FOE (standing for friends or enemies) radio. It's really a lot of alternative punk/rock music but with pretty clean lyrics. Not really what I'm into but maybe that's what tweens are into these days. Between every song, their was a little add telling you that you should find and add them on twitter and facebook. It was also funny to me that some of the ads on the radio were for Lowe's. I'm pretty sure the users of this website are't doing very much home improvement.

While I listened to the radio, I spent the rest of my hour on the site was taking quizzes, trying to post on their confusing message board system, rating makeup pictures, and reading submitted "comix."

I think within time I will find my niche on their website but as my first time using it, it was very frustrating to me. The website is filled with links but half of them take you to other websites and the other bring up the url on a new tab even though it's from the same website. By the end, I ended up with about 10 browsers just of their website.

Next time I'll try to personalize my account more and post on some of their articles. It seems like they have a lot of information about issues tweens may have such as dating, family/friends, and body image to name a few.