The Teenage Girl Factor

Like most of the class, I wasn't overly impressed with Caroline and Jemma. However, it occurs to me that most of our critiques of the sites have centered around the somewhat frivolous content of the stories rather than around the genre/medium itself. McLuhan would be displeased with us. It seems to me that it would be possible to create a very interesting story with this kind of format. There's no reason I can think of why these stories need to center around boys and clothes and alcohol. Alas, it seems that new literary and artistic forms often begin as either cliched, melodramatic entertainment or insufferably self-concious exercises in being different.