[ SECRET POST #2937 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2937 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Trainwreck Syndrome: Tumblr version

[lb_lee]

I honestly find tumblr a huge timesuck anyway, and am trying to pull away. (Which is how I came to F!S!) I never hate-read, but I definitely realized my dash was making me feel grimy, cynical, and apathetic, none of which is useful to me.

So I axed something like 20% of people I followed. (And note that probably half remaining are defunct tumblrs like fuckyeahamandawaller, in the vain hope that one day they'll resurrect.)

Re: Trainwreck Syndrome: Tumblr version

[(Anonymous)]

If I spend too much time on tumblr I definitely feel grubby and depressed. That's not even to do with the people I follow. It's to do with the format, I think. The random nature of the dash as many different blogs feed into it.

The randomness is a trick to keep you addicted. It's the same thing they use in games, those random drops from defeated enemies. It works on a deep part of the brain that's hard to control. It's what gets people addicted to gambling.

When I go on tumblr, I tend to spend many hours on it without wanting to, and feel tired afterwards. That's why I limit my exposure to once every few months. It's a pity because there's lots of genuinely good stuff there, and I like the people. Just the format is too deliberately addicting. A Skinner box with pictures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_chamber

Re: Trainwreck Syndrome: Tumblr version

[manzana]

Same here. I no longer even check my friends' tumblrs. :( (20+ posts of pretty pictures, 10 memes, 10 random conversations, 20 more pretty pictures, 5 links to interesting sites, 5 music videos, all mixed up, every day! One week or two of not logging in and how could you possibly catch up without spending many whole afternoons? D:)

You really are spot-on with the why it works like that - it had never occurred to me...

My solution is to just check on tumblr blogs separately - as long as they're not very active personal blogs, to ensure a lack of multiple topics barrage -, visiting their urls directly, without being logged-in.

The only downside is that, if they change their usernames and I wasn't following them, then it's very difficult to track them down to their new url.

Re: Trainwreck Syndrome: Tumblr version

[lb_lee]

There IS a lot of good stuff on tumblr, but good luck EVER finding it again afterward, unless you download or keep a really rigorously strict tags index. The format really does make everything worse, and I wish to god it hadn't become the SJ hub of the Internet.