I totally needed a new tumblr, yes.

[beckerbell]

► TUMBLR:
→ Okay, shut up. Shut up. I have a new tumblr that's actually going to be my default one (such as it is) where I can post memes and, like, follow people and stuff. EVERYONE SHOULD TELL ME THEIR TUMBLR NAMES AGAIN. Or else add me so I can add you back. :D

► FARMVILLE:
→ Oh, my goooooood. This farm is amazing. I could never do it

Comments

[beckerbell]

It sort of depends on how you want to use it, I guess? I once saw tumblr compared to a party post on lj, except IT NEVER ENDS and that's a pretty accurate description for a lot of people. It's definitely about posting gifs and reblogging other people's content that you liked, but it's also a place where you can post shorter, quicker notes instead of composing longer lj entries. And there are a lot of people writing rants that get reblogged a lot, which is a different culture than lj, where you just link.

Or you can use it like I mostly use it--a way to post fanart links in sort of like one big recommendations blog. It's nice because you can find a lot of really great gifs or pictures that you wouldn't otherwise necessarily find yourself, especially since tumblr lets you browse all posts tagged a certain way--like, say, if I want to find sailor moon posts by other people, I just hit that up and go browsing around.

As far as I've gotten into tumblr, one of the different things about it than lj is that it seems to be very fandom-oriented, whereas lj is often about posting personal stuff or what have you. And I go to tumblr knowing that it's going to be graphics intensive (which they thankfully thumbnail everything) rather than lj, which I try to have be more text oriented (at least outside of cuts).

I guess the benefit to tumblr is that it feels faster and bigger and there's always something to do, rather than refreshing your flist out of boredom all the time?

[sherryillk]

My problem with tumblr is that it's horribly overwhelming and I never feel like I'm on equal footing on it. Like with LJ, you can go back so many entries and hit a definite end and you can say, okay, I've seen everything I've missed. With tumblr, I keep running into the same things over and over again but there's also new stuff in there too and I never feel like I'm ever done with it.

I'm not so much into fanart (actually hate it) or animated gifs (which I've always thought were a bit immature even before they've blown up the way they have now)... The rants, I've seen, which make me awfully uncomfortable so I try not to read into them very much...

*shrugs* I've never been opposed to posting short LJ entries, even ones that are just one sentence... I'm starting to think that for me, tumblr might just be good as a repository of cute Darren Criss pictures that I can't be bothered to save on my hard drive but still want to revisit? *shrugs*