Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook VS LiveJournal
I've tried using Twitter and Tumblr in the past days since I'm procrastinating holidaying and have plenty of time. I've tried to like the sites because fandom has moved away from LJ, but it's such a pain that I'm wondering whether I should stay there.
You have no option at all to filter out the contents on Tumblr or Twitter (or someone please tell me how to do it since I haven't figured it out yet), meaning that you either search by tag and find tons of information on DC, for instance, or click on the user profile of someone who tweets or reblogs the pics you like. But there are so many tweets Twitter just forces on you (same with Tumblr suggestions since Yahoo bought Tumblr) that it's annoying to read through all of them. If you follow twenty people, for instance, the stuff you don't want to read about multiplies by twenty. Also, I'm still figuring out how to deactivate all the mail alerts I don't want to get.
To be fair, you have things you don't want to read on your friends page, too, if you follow a LJ community. But in a well-managed community, the memory page has been tagged by the admin and you can filter out what you want to read without having to go through all the stuff you don't want to read by skimming it (or just scroll through it when you're too sleep-deprived to play Plants&Zombies and have nothing to do).
Also, my internet connection tends to die on me whenever I try to reblog something, meaning that I would have to search for the tag or the user once again to reblog the entry and store it for later reference. I have the same problem with Twitter. Maybe it's just my crappy internet connection these days, but I seldom have the problem with LiveJournal and Deviantart.
So, why has fandom move to Tumblr and Twitter when LJ makes entries so much easier to categorize? (And I'm not talking about Facebook here because it's such an ugly site).
You have no option at all to filter out the contents on Tumblr or Twitter (or someone please tell me how to do it since I haven't figured it out yet), meaning that you either search by tag and find tons of information on DC, for instance, or click on the user profile of someone who tweets or reblogs the pics you like. But there are so many tweets Twitter just forces on you (same with Tumblr suggestions since Yahoo bought Tumblr) that it's annoying to read through all of them. If you follow twenty people, for instance, the stuff you don't want to read about multiplies by twenty. Also, I'm still figuring out how to deactivate all the mail alerts I don't want to get.
To be fair, you have things you don't want to read on your friends page, too, if you follow a LJ community. But in a well-managed community, the memory page has been tagged by the admin and you can filter out what you want to read without having to go through all the stuff you don't want to read by skimming it (or just scroll through it when you're too sleep-deprived to play Plants&Zombies and have nothing to do).
Also, my internet connection tends to die on me whenever I try to reblog something, meaning that I would have to search for the tag or the user once again to reblog the entry and store it for later reference. I have the same problem with Twitter. Maybe it's just my crappy internet connection these days, but I seldom have the problem with LiveJournal and Deviantart.
So, why has fandom move to Tumblr and Twitter when LJ makes entries so much easier to categorize? (And I'm not talking about Facebook here because it's such an ugly site).