[ SECRET POST #2217 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2217 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Early because sick, sorry.

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Comments

[truxillogical]

It's not impossible. It's just difficult, unpleasant, messy, and requires watching tumblr like a hawk for reblogs with additional content, etc etc. It's not impossible, but having a nice, organized discussion is...well, it's just not geared for that. You shouldn't have to make THAT much of an effort to have a conversation.

I love tumblr. I really do. It's loads of fun. It's crap for conversations. Especially if you're trying to have a semi-professional art blog on it (which I could do on LJ, but still go and participate in fandom conversations without it splashing all over my home page).

[cloudsinvenice]

Exactly. If 30 people from your LJ flist move to Tumblr, you'll have to sift through much more material to keep up with everything, so it feels like a 90-person flist on LJ, even when you filter stuff out for whatever reason with Missing E.

The main thing that I find mitigates against maintaining friendships/forming new ones, though, is that everything's public. Most people I've known on LJ keep a certain amount of stuff, especially RL, f-locked. Most of them aren't posting about their lives at all on Tumblr. With an existing, close friend you can make an effort to email, but initiating that with someone new is quite tricky.

So yeah, I resent the whole "people should feel bad for missing a means of communication/community hub that worked for them" thing.

[otakugal15]

You can do that same thing on tumblr. Either by posting things to private or making your blog password protected that only your friends can use and see.

So no. It's not always so public. Only if you want it to be.

[truxillogical]

Oh gosh, so much the public thing. Like I've said, numerous times, I LIKE tumblr. I really do.

But I find myself being, for lack of a better word, more shallow in my interactions. On my LJ, it could be my public and professional blog, but I could keep my personal stuff under a specific f-lock, and keep my fanfic (looks bad on a pro art blog) or excessive fangirlish squeeing in a block that's available to my fandom friends. And I could go and interact with my fandom friends in the fandom communities, and anyone following my blog for the art would never have to hear my 2,000 word essay on the finer points of *insert current fandom obsession.*

And don't get me wrong, I love reblogs, like photosets and corny jokes and all the rest of that--that's part of what I really enjoy on tumblr. But it does mean that it feels like I'm not following my friends so much as the people that my friends follow (to the nth degree). I have a lot of fandom friends who just don't post anything themselves on their tumblrs, so it feels like I don't know them anymore. I appreciate sharing a cool thing as much as the next nerd, but I miss having a f-list to follow that was just updates by my friends.

Ideally, I'd like to have both. Since they're such drastically different formats, and both good for such drastically different things, I never quite understood why the rise of tumblr had to result in the death of the journal sites.