After looking at the website ‘wefeelfine.org’ I first thought how amazing it was, I just really thought how clever is that. Harris’s ideas are so orignal, even though we all know how emotional we as human beings can be, to take the idea of how similar we are through emotion and make a website based on it, would seem obvious to do, but Harris and his team are the first to create this and they have done it brilliantly, the design is amazing; especially the particle idea and the colours used.
However, there are a few elements to the website that I found hard to understand. For example, why is the categories split into men and women if the website is about emotion of people, It makes us different when his orignal idea is to show how similar we are without the ‘gaps’ in our lives. Harris would probably argue that it creates more of a detailed result, because you can tell which sex is most emotional at any given time. But i believe it is creating a gap again between men and women, so i feel that could be changed.
Another feature of the site that i don’t know if it particularly works is the age groups, because when he showed a graph of the information of what age group was the most emotional at that point in time. The only categories shown were a small number of teens and people in their thirties, with people in their twenties proving to be the most emotional. I only think it showed this because thats the only age group that really uses the web to express their emotions, so is it a fair reading of the world emotion? Not everyone uses the web, but could be extremely emotional.
Another question that i thought about after i realised where all the information for the sentences comes from. Is do they have the right to your personal thoughts and feelings? These could be from your Facebook, Twitter or WordPress, completely taken from your page, with no warning. However, if you really want things about you to be private, do you put it on the net in the first place…? I wouldn’t.
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