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Aug. 26th, 2013 08:03 pmlol I already fail at challenge posting on day 2. I am so awesome.
So, as you may or may not know, I spend most of my time on Tumblr these days. It is a new and different way of interacting. I've met a lot of really cool people through it, and that's really what keeps me there. The platform itself is really strange and not particularly optimal for discussion. Which of course is by design, but it really sucks sometimes. It privileges visual stimulation over text, and that can be really annoying sometimes. As somebody said, "I could go write a post on LJ/Dreamwidth or I could reblog this picture of Benedict Cumberbatch and an otter." Also idk if it's because the platform skews young, but stupid spreads really really fast. Nobody ever checks the veracity of the shit they reblog, and misinformation spreads like wildfire. And there's no way to send that correction back up the chain, and I'm not sure you'd want to, especially when a thing is reblogged hundreds of thousands of times. So yes, it is weird and I have problems with the design of the platform (and the UX, oh god the UX), but I have no idea where else I'd go.
Being such a visual medium Tumblr does bring me into contact with a lot of things I would probably not seek out otherwise, like photography or all sorts of really interesting visual art/fanart. I have primarily been a very textual person all my life (and LJ/DW did not help this at all), so it's been interesting. I'm also learning lots about the process of drawing in all different mediums due to following artists (which only confirms how bad I'd be at it). So it's been educational, despite the many many things I hate about it.
So, as you may or may not know, I spend most of my time on Tumblr these days. It is a new and different way of interacting. I've met a lot of really cool people through it, and that's really what keeps me there. The platform itself is really strange and not particularly optimal for discussion. Which of course is by design, but it really sucks sometimes. It privileges visual stimulation over text, and that can be really annoying sometimes. As somebody said, "I could go write a post on LJ/Dreamwidth or I could reblog this picture of Benedict Cumberbatch and an otter." Also idk if it's because the platform skews young, but stupid spreads really really fast. Nobody ever checks the veracity of the shit they reblog, and misinformation spreads like wildfire. And there's no way to send that correction back up the chain, and I'm not sure you'd want to, especially when a thing is reblogged hundreds of thousands of times. So yes, it is weird and I have problems with the design of the platform (and the UX, oh god the UX), but I have no idea where else I'd go.
Being such a visual medium Tumblr does bring me into contact with a lot of things I would probably not seek out otherwise, like photography or all sorts of really interesting visual art/fanart. I have primarily been a very textual person all my life (and LJ/DW did not help this at all), so it's been interesting. I'm also learning lots about the process of drawing in all different mediums due to following artists (which only confirms how bad I'd be at it). So it's been educational, despite the many many things I hate about it.
