I'm Just Gonna Come Right Out And Say It

[latetothpartyhp]

Tumblr confuses me.

*wanders off into the land of elders scratching their heads over kids these days*

Comments

[oonaseckar]

Yeah, the way to search for things you're actually interested in is less than intuitive or obvious, or trumpeted aloud. Or maybe it's just being an old codger who has trouble operating anything more complex than a toaster.

Great once you get the hang of it though. If wasting hours of precious life staring at pretty pictures counts as great.

[latetothpartyhp]

If disliking the necessity of learning new skills in order to waste my life in my preferred manner makes me an old codger, than I guess I'm an old codger.

I just want the pretty, dammit!

[apeygirl]

Yeah, Tumblr and even twitter, I will never get the appeal of. Though Tumblr doesn't have the character limit of Twitter (why do I even have one?), everything is buried too quickly to have an impact. It's not journaling. It's "sharing" meant for a culture with the attention span of a 5-year-old.

The only reason I might ever want one, though, is all the purty gifs. But I will resist as long as I can.

[latetothpartyhp]

There is an enormous amount of pretty on Tumblr.

I just don't ever seem to be able to figure out who posted it. Or how to comment on it. Or... anything, really.

(Twitter on the other hand, I get. I get it so well I've had to give it up cold turkey. There's way too much temptation to use up my phone minutes talking about how happy I am the freezer at work is now making ice cubes again.)

[kitmerlot1213]

I'm right there with you--what is with the kids today and their newfangled sites? :)

[latetothpartyhp]

EXACTLY.

Back in my day we had to xerox to get our fandom on. Now THAT was some fangurling!

[astrid26a]

I felt the same way about both once but I slowly became addicted. Better you stay away. Once you get sucked in it's hard to get back out. Facebook has nothing on the sick sweet addiction of tumblr and twitter! *looks around all shifty* How long have I been here?! I could be missing valuable tweets at this exact moment! *runs off*

[latetothpartyhp]

Twitter?

Where? You got some?

*scratches forearms. twitches*

(sadly, i know all about the sweet, sweet hit that is twitter. ALL the good fan wank is happenin' there these days, and god knows i love me some fan wank. you don't got any fan wank, do you?)

[msedopportunity]

I just like the pretty gifs. I don't attempt to actually post ... well anything, or tag. I know how to like and reblog. I prefer LJ for discussion.

[latetothpartyhp]

That's the other problem. I am so not a maker of pretty arts, and that seems to be the point of it. All I have to contribute is appreciation, and even that's kind of beyond me. When I see something it's usually in the form of a reblog and so who am I complimenting, again?