At first glance of Lawa’s blog, I immediately noticed the photo doesn’t load, and there’s not much organization to her page. To me it seemed very disorganized. There’s also hardly any color either and everything seems to run together. It’s so much easier to read a blog when it is organized, but then again this is the blog of a sixteen year old and how many of us were organized and easy to read at this age?
When I first read Lawa’s blog, I thought I couldn’t get through it because it is just too unorganized for me, and she’s got those annoying personality quizzes and polls on her page. But I gave it as shot and read several posts and the farther I went back (she’s been blogging almost a year), the more I really felt for her situation. She’s at that age where she is dealing with an immense amount of pressure from her peers and from her parents. In a nutshell, she’s confused and nobody understands her. Now remember, that is NOT a bad thing, it’s just a fact of life at that age. Some of Lawa’s posts are dark and I worried for her state of mind but I was reassured when they were eventually followed by humorous posts. It took me awhile to remember that some 20 years ago I felt like that too. And once I kept that in mind, I could then relate to her feelings about parents, friendship, boys, love, life, etc. I don’t care where you are from or your background, life is hard at Lawa’s age.
There’s no design or structure to Lawa’s blog but my guess is that she doesn’t care. And that’s ok, I like the way Lawa just states what’s on her mind and from day to day her mood is so different. I think that for other teenage girls, this is a good blog, full of the feelings and emotions that each young girl goes through at that age. I think it’s important for teens to know they’re not alone. Adults can write all the teen self help books they want, but there’s nothing like hearing about life straight from the teen experiencing it. I think that Lawa’s blog transcends borders here in that a sixteen year old in Topeka, Kansas could probably relate to the feelings Lawa’s experiencing.
I’d say despite it’s not-so-pretty look, the content of the blog is good and I think other teenage girls will relate to it. And at sixteen it’s so important to just know you’re not going through it alone.NULL