Caroline and Jemma

I don't know why, but I just have to force myself to be anything more than the tiniest bit interested in the stories at onlinecaroline.com and planetjemma.com. Having to put in my email address already makes me cranky, and thinking about getting emails from these sites makes me realize that I will probably do what I do with all other emails, which is leave them piling up unread for as long as possible while I assure myself I will read them later. I don't know what it is...I'm still trying to figure out my stubborn resistance to it all. Something about getting these standard responses to my interactions with the characters... I don't really want to fill in my personal details and answer quizzes so I can get these limited replies...won't it probably just come down to how much I can mess with the format and try to get unique responses? I haven't read through all of "Kind of Blue" yet, but I'm immediatly more interested in it. Reading something that I can pretend is personal and real is more captivating for me than reading emails that are trying to make you think they're personal and real because, really, all their trying does is make it more obvious that they're not what they're trying to be. Does that make sense? These are my early impressions so who knows, maybe I'll get more drawn into the stories of "Caroline" and "Jemma"...

Also, as Shock and Awe brought up, planetjemma.com has the purpose of trying to get girls to think about science, and as soon as my mind caught onto that I immediately lost interest (I guess that's bad) because it felt like something your middle school science teacher would make you look at; something about it set off those "it might be educational" warning bells.