Social media has officially stopped making sense to me
So.
I have been trying to do the Tumblr thing and I'm just... not getting it. I follow precisely five fandom people and some fun porn Tumblrs because, c'mon, it's the internet and I can't keep up with my feed. I guess most people use it as something you're supposed to constantly check throughout the day, like Twitter? Because some people post dozens of things a day, and even with just those five fandom Tumblrs, I get double and triple reblogs. And it's not practical to keep checking on my phone all day, because a lot of the posts contain multiple gifs and the damn thing takes forever to load, if it loads at all (also, there's no "under the cut" option for the porn, so I feel weird checking it in public at all).
AND I CAN'T JUST FUCKING COMMENT ON SOMETHING. That's what drives me nuts -- it really doesn't work as a replacement for LJ because there's no way to really have communities or dialogues without endless, repetitive reblogging. Don't even get me started on the endless stupid fucking hashtags, which make things impossible to read. And yet, much of fandom seems to be moving over there, and I don't want to be left out.
Am I doing something wrong? Am I missing an obvious comment box? I know about Tumblr Savior, but that doesn't filter out humongous gif posts or reblogs and if I can't run it on my phone, it's not worth much to me, anyway. Plus, I don't want to block every post that mentions, say, Benedict Cumberbatch, because I might miss some Sherlock or Trek news or fanart or something, I just don't want to be constantly bombarded with massive pictures of him. (He's an awesome actor, but I simply cannot get around the fact that he has a weird alien face. YMMV)
I feel like the old lady with a rake screaming "YOU KIDS STOP POSTING SO DAMN MUCH!" I'd love to follow more people, but since I can't keep up with five (one of whom barely posts), it's pretty much impossible. And anything potentially important that I wanted to post would just get lost in the noise. For example, if I wanted to share that I watched the season premiere of Community tonight and got kind of uncomfortably turned on by Jeff tango dancing with the creepy Dean, I would miss the important emotional support that I get (or used to get) from sharing with my followers on LJ.
So congratulations, people who are still reading this, you got to learn one more awkward fact about me! Now how do we go about getting everyone back on LJ?
I have been trying to do the Tumblr thing and I'm just... not getting it. I follow precisely five fandom people and some fun porn Tumblrs because, c'mon, it's the internet and I can't keep up with my feed. I guess most people use it as something you're supposed to constantly check throughout the day, like Twitter? Because some people post dozens of things a day, and even with just those five fandom Tumblrs, I get double and triple reblogs. And it's not practical to keep checking on my phone all day, because a lot of the posts contain multiple gifs and the damn thing takes forever to load, if it loads at all (also, there's no "under the cut" option for the porn, so I feel weird checking it in public at all).
AND I CAN'T JUST FUCKING COMMENT ON SOMETHING. That's what drives me nuts -- it really doesn't work as a replacement for LJ because there's no way to really have communities or dialogues without endless, repetitive reblogging. Don't even get me started on the endless stupid fucking hashtags, which make things impossible to read. And yet, much of fandom seems to be moving over there, and I don't want to be left out.
Am I doing something wrong? Am I missing an obvious comment box? I know about Tumblr Savior, but that doesn't filter out humongous gif posts or reblogs and if I can't run it on my phone, it's not worth much to me, anyway. Plus, I don't want to block every post that mentions, say, Benedict Cumberbatch, because I might miss some Sherlock or Trek news or fanart or something, I just don't want to be constantly bombarded with massive pictures of him. (He's an awesome actor, but I simply cannot get around the fact that he has a weird alien face. YMMV)
I feel like the old lady with a rake screaming "YOU KIDS STOP POSTING SO DAMN MUCH!" I'd love to follow more people, but since I can't keep up with five (one of whom barely posts), it's pretty much impossible. And anything potentially important that I wanted to post would just get lost in the noise. For example, if I wanted to share that I watched the season premiere of Community tonight and got kind of uncomfortably turned on by Jeff tango dancing with the creepy Dean, I would miss the important emotional support that I get (or used to get) from sharing with my followers on LJ.
So congratulations, people who are still reading this, you got to learn one more awkward fact about me! Now how do we go about getting everyone back on LJ?