Apologies for my lack of attention. I have been caught up exploring a new social network of sorts.
The problem with social networking, however, is that they can be dangerously addictive. The web becomes less of a passive tool for information distribution, and more of a portal to contact strangers with common interests.
As social networks go, Facebook and Twitter are probably the best known.
Although initially exciting, Facebook has lost my patronage for two reasons. Firstly, because of the fake or annoyingly presumed connection (called friendships) with people I have never met, or work colleagues who do not figure in my private life, and the insulting premise that the more friends your have, the greater you are as a person. Secondly, because my private personal information is retained and used for marketing purposes by Facebook, even after I closed my account.
Twitter, on the other hand, seems to be a world saturated with the drivel of small lives. Save me.
Tumblr is simplistic blogging, where the reality of stealing other peoples blog content, to paste into your own, has been built in to the infrastructure. You can choose to follow people with similar interests. Your dashboard displays the posts of those you are following.
With an interest in handsome (ahem) men, I started reblogging pictures and following those sites with similar pictures. Suddenly I found myself following 46 sites and have picked up 16 followers, all with a similar interest in handsome men.
I have been swept up in the excitement of the world of images that are automatically displayed in my dashboard. Either on my mac, or my iPhone. Way cool!!
The social interaction is a little hands off, but I kinda feel like I am in a small club. However, there is no dialog with like minds. Blogger is better for that. So I will probably try to maintain this site for that.
And perhaps this is just a fad that I will tire of soon. But thats where I am, if I don't post for a while....
Join me at YarravillePaul Tumbles.
20 hours ago
6 comments:
Firstly - great to see you on Tumblr!
Secondly - you have to take my word for it - Twitter is actually a lot of fun. EVERYONE starts out think it's awful and stupid and pointless (Ryan who I follow swore blind he would never sign up because it was 'so awful' - and finally he did). You have to try it! It brings you much closer to people than blogging but actually complements blogging extremely well - even if it's just to send auto-tweets about your latest blog posts, which most of us do.
Well, I dumped twitter since it seems that it was duplicating facebook. Or was it the other way around? :)
That graphic looks like one of those mac vs. pc ads!
Having checked out some of the great photos on your Tumblr page I'm giving some thought to signing up myself.
ps - Love your taste in men.
Milo, might save the airways on the tweet front for the moment. I will wait until the next social networking brilliance is created, and promise to be an early adopter :D
Sign up Victor, its fun....
yeah, tumblr rocks... especially for nekkid content!!
well said cb, and much nekkid content has been perused..... :D
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