Confession

[bugshaw]

I still do not understand Tumblr. Can anyone explain?

Comments

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

It's like Twitter except with more than 140 characters.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

But sometimes with all the tweets cut out and thrown down randomly and only part visible.

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

Er, no? I don't think so, you get your tumblr feed is complete chronological order, unlike FB.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

It is displays like this which confuse me, especially when a picture clicks through to a bigger post
http://pinkapplejamdreams.tumblr.com/
http://www.humansofnewyork.com/
http://kimjongillookingatthings.tumblr.com/archive

I can't read them in the right order or parse what to do. She said, like her mother did about reading comics.

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

ahah! Right, this is other people's tumblrs, and it is certainly true that tumblr allows you to customise your page in a wide variety of web design that sucks. But you don't see anything like that on your own tumblr page, you see an aggregated feed like your friends' page on LJ. And everyone who uses tumblr is looking at their own page.

[replyhazy.livejournal.com]

Me neither.

[unwholesome-fen.livejournal.com]

From time to time I look at younger friends' tumblrs and come to the conclusion that it's a generational gap.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

I could set up a Grumblr.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

I'd totally be in.

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

An idea whose time has come! Clearly.

[ladymoonray.livejournal.com]

I've been using it badly for over a year, and no. Sadly.

[uitlander]

Nope.

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

It's a bit like twitter except instead of retweeting you post it to your tumblr feed, which puts a copy on there for all your followers. It's a good way to look at pretty pictures, because you get a lot of different stuff posted and lots of single-focus tumblrs, and people who repost a crosssection of it, so I get comic art and attractive gentlemen in suits and some webcomics and striking photos and a whole lot of GIFs. It's terrible for most other things especially having any kind of discussion, because if you follow three people who all repost the same thing you get it three times in your feed, and there's no way to have a conversation except to keep reposting the same thing with an extra comment at the end, and so that aspect of it drives me nuts. But with some careful choosing of who to follow and the 'tumblr savior' chrome extension, which lets me block by keyword and make it a teen wolf-free zone, I'm quite enjoying it.

If you want to follow a single tumblr you can just follow the RSS feed.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Thanks! That helps me understand some of the higgledy pigglediness of it.

[andrewducker]

I tend to think of it like Livejournal, except without the comments.

You can post a picture. Or some text. Or a video.

And then your friends can scroll past going "Ooooooh".

But not have a conversation about it.

[ceemage.livejournal.com]

A popular beat combo group, M'Lud, of some notoriety amongst the youth of today.

Or, what they said.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

It's for people who think not being able to have a conversation is a virtue rather than a flaw.

[(Anonymous)]

I've also seen it described as the reaction to a net where "don't read the comments" is a useful and reasonable warning in so many cases.

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

That actually makes sense in how I think a couple people I know use it: as distraction with zero pressure for high level interaction

[redbird]

That last anon reply to rysmiel was me; I didn't realize LJ had logged me out.