Yeah, I'm still geting my butt handed to me at the book factory. Although, these past few weeks have been the slowest in the past few years. I worked all of two days this week. ^^b Before long, we"ll be back to the heavy workloads and they'll have us going twelve days between weekends again. -_-;; This year has been very hard on me so far. I'm hoping it will be over soon and next year will be better!
Tumblr is a lot like LJ in how it's a blogging site. However, Tumblr is more of a minimalist kinda deal. You can doctor up your actual Tumblr page, but your Dashboard, where you read the posts of who you follow (Tumblr equivilant of your Flist page) is very bare-bones basic. The site is aimed more toward visual media, like pics and .gif's and embeded videos, than just text. But that doesn't mean you can't just use text posts (lol like me). Where LJ was more about fan-fic, Tumblr is more about fan-art. (Fan-fic seems to have migrated away from LJ to http://archiveofourown.org , AO3 for short, which is like a bigger, much more badass version of FF.net. It's AMAZING and I love it so much. I'm here: http://archiveofourown.org/users/chibimono :D)
The Tumblr feature with the most appeal for people is the ability to "reblog". If you like something someone posted, you can reblog it so it shows up on your Tumblr, and then everyone that follows you will see it on their Dashboards, and they can reblog it from you if they want to. (I currently reblog anything that shows up on my Dashboard with Captain America or Iron Man, and occasionally things from the movie Pacific Rim.) The site keeps track of every time someone has clicked the Like button for your entries and every time someone has reblogged your entries (and if you were the originial poster for the entry, it keeps track if they've Liked or reblogged it from someone else). They also have a tagging system like LJ, where you can use tags to mark the entries and everyone can look those entries up with those tags. But you can also use those same tags to pull up entries all across Tumblr, and set Tumblr to track those tags so you can find any new posts that pop up with them. (Like you can use the tag "SteveTony" to pull up all my entries about that OTP on my Tumblr, or you can use that tag to search for all the Tumblr entries with the "Steve/Tony" tag. It's a good way to search for more things to reblog.) There is also a very nice ability to queue your posts/reblogs for certain times a day, or save them as drafts. And you can have more than one Tumblr listed under your account, so you only have to be logged in once (which is nice for the RPing crowds and people that like to have seperate blogs for fandom and personal things.) And people can send you messages that you can reply to privately, or you can reply to them and have it posted on your Tumblr page.
The biggest problem with Tumblr, though, is the insane amount of overwhelming stimulation. Depending on how many people you follow, you could scroll your Dash for hours to catch up with everything everyone has posted. There is a lot of repetition of posts if you follow a lot of people that follow each other or if your fandoms are huge. If you follow people that participate in more than one fandom, you get treated to all those other fandoms, too (I'm in it for the Avengers/Marvel movies universe, but I get a lot of Supernatural fandom, Sherlock fandom, Hobbit/LotR fandom, Teen Wolf fandom, and Pacific Rim fandom popping up on my Dash.) It is entirely possible to get sucked in for hours just browsing your Dashboard :/
I spend a lot of time on Tumblr and Twitter (my LJ actually rounds up a daily digest of my Tweets and posts them automatically). And reading fic on AO3, too. I used to use LJ to keep track of writing goals for myself, but the past 6+ months have been very rough for me and my creativity, so I've stopped tracking. I don't follow my LJ flist anymore, but I have my favorite people monitored with RSS feeds, so if they post unlocked entries, they pop up in my feed. :D That's how I saw you posted.
Tumblr is a lot like LJ in how it's a blogging site. However, Tumblr is more of a minimalist kinda deal. You can doctor up your actual Tumblr page, but your Dashboard, where you read the posts of who you follow (Tumblr equivilant of your Flist page) is very bare-bones basic. The site is aimed more toward visual media, like pics and .gif's and embeded videos, than just text. But that doesn't mean you can't just use text posts (lol like me). Where LJ was more about fan-fic, Tumblr is more about fan-art. (Fan-fic seems to have migrated away from LJ to http://archiveofourown.org , AO3 for short, which is like a bigger, much more badass version of FF.net. It's AMAZING and I love it so much. I'm here: http://archiveofourown.org/users/chibimono :D)
The Tumblr feature with the most appeal for people is the ability to "reblog". If you like something someone posted, you can reblog it so it shows up on your Tumblr, and then everyone that follows you will see it on their Dashboards, and they can reblog it from you if they want to. (I currently reblog anything that shows up on my Dashboard with Captain America or Iron Man, and occasionally things from the movie Pacific Rim.) The site keeps track of every time someone has clicked the Like button for your entries and every time someone has reblogged your entries (and if you were the originial poster for the entry, it keeps track if they've Liked or reblogged it from someone else). They also have a tagging system like LJ, where you can use tags to mark the entries and everyone can look those entries up with those tags. But you can also use those same tags to pull up entries all across Tumblr, and set Tumblr to track those tags so you can find any new posts that pop up with them. (Like you can use the tag "SteveTony" to pull up all my entries about that OTP on my Tumblr, or you can use that tag to search for all the Tumblr entries with the "Steve/Tony" tag. It's a good way to search for more things to reblog.) There is also a very nice ability to queue your posts/reblogs for certain times a day, or save them as drafts. And you can have more than one Tumblr listed under your account, so you only have to be logged in once (which is nice for the RPing crowds and people that like to have seperate blogs for fandom and personal things.) And people can send you messages that you can reply to privately, or you can reply to them and have it posted on your Tumblr page.
You can look at my Tumblr if you like: http://littlethingofevil.tumblr.com
The biggest problem with Tumblr, though, is the insane amount of overwhelming stimulation. Depending on how many people you follow, you could scroll your Dash for hours to catch up with everything everyone has posted. There is a lot of repetition of posts if you follow a lot of people that follow each other or if your fandoms are huge. If you follow people that participate in more than one fandom, you get treated to all those other fandoms, too (I'm in it for the Avengers/Marvel movies universe, but I get a lot of Supernatural fandom, Sherlock fandom, Hobbit/LotR fandom, Teen Wolf fandom, and Pacific Rim fandom popping up on my Dash.) It is entirely possible to get sucked in for hours just browsing your Dashboard :/
I spend a lot of time on Tumblr and Twitter (my LJ actually rounds up a daily digest of my Tweets and posts them automatically). And reading fic on AO3, too. I used to use LJ to keep track of writing goals for myself, but the past 6+ months have been very rough for me and my creativity, so I've stopped tracking. I don't follow my LJ flist anymore, but I have my favorite people monitored with RSS feeds, so if they post unlocked entries, they pop up in my feed. :D That's how I saw you posted.
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