Stated Purpose, Goal, Mission
The site is driving me crazy. There is nothing of this sort on the site. All you can gather from your first glance at the page is that it's "where the streets are talking". Men are Fellas, Ladies are Dimes. Everyone is half naked in their profile picture. Without the mission statement or anything of that sort it's hard to guess what the site is even used for. From the posts I saw on the homepage it looked like a place where 'urban youth' were trying to score 'booty'. Or, at least every other post had something to do with this. I wasn't even sure what I was signing up for in order to dive deeper in to the site. Point being, I signed up, and still have little idea to what actually happens on the site.
The only area of the site that is easily navigated and understood is the forum. Some categories were worthwhile, while others made me shrug and ask myself why? The games board was helpful in passing time, as it suggested. The rap battlez or rhyme-board was more than time consuming. Filled with 'urban poetry' or what I'd like to call song lyrics. Many of the songs written were incredible. The site gives this 'urban lifestyle' so much credit with all these categories, then you find yourself wandering to the park bench? Why? Is this really needed? This caught me off guard and I personally thought they could have avoided the use of this category.
Site Offers Members
Aside from the extremely vague homepage and lack of direction, the site does offer the ability for members to share photos, small blog posts, a personal profile, inter-site communication/messages, and a community that only you (a signed-up user) can access.
Official Writing
From navigating the site, I found little official writing (done by those who aren't members). There is a section on 'urban experts', but this is written by the members as well. It focuses on a topic of their own choice and they can voice their opinion. Much like what I'm doing right now. The only problem with these "Urban Experts" is that the writing is filled with errors and many contain the crazy internet lingo/spelling that made things extremely difficult to read. So as asked from us- The official writing is basically non-existent, it lacks a unified voice, the writing is informal and lightly edited, if at all.
I plan on venturing the site for awhile longer and coming back for a second posting covering a few more questions. Until then, feel free to navigate over to Urban Chat and check out what they have, or don't have to offer you, the user.
Good stuff here. One wonders why this is such a well-trafficked site.
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