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Originally Posted by Princess Kaguya I never joined Tumblr before (I didn't know we had Tumblr until later this year). I honestly don't see why it has a purpose. Sure it does have funny gifs but what purpose does it have. |
Tumblr is essentially the bastard child of twitter and facebook, only dumbed down by one million. You like and reblog pictures, links, videos, and text posts on Tumblr. That's it. That's all you do. Tumblr doesn't even have a requirement to cite WHERE you get your blog's content. I could go to deviantart and post someone else's picture on my tumblr without the artists' permission or knowledge, even if I have no right to do so. The same goes for photographs like on flickr.
As for discussions, forget it. It's all shipping wars, flaming, and name-calling. Not like you don't get that in other places, but I notice it's a lot more common on Tumblr than anywhere else I've been. You have to scroll down endless amounts of posts (which eventually stretch the page into oblivion) just to see the latest replies, and if there's a lot, most of the replies aren't even visible.
Oh, and no one is obligated to censor the content they post. You could be browsing the "cats" tag and BAM suddenly there's porn. You can't block people from seeing your tumblr blog either. Unless you set a blog/post to private, ANYONE can see it, and you have absolutely no way of making a post truly private after it's been posted.
For instance: Once, I posted a text that said "Am I the only one who doesn't ship Ghirahim with males in the Zelda series?" This spawned a HUGE bash-fest, and not even after I deleted the post did it stop. This is because, in order to respond to someone's post, you have to reblog it to your tumblr blog. So, even if YOU delete a post on YOUR blog, if someone reblogged it before you deleted it, it will still be on that person's blog.
Wow I could really go on. I didn't mean to write a novel. There's just so many things I hate about tumblr. I'm amazed I stayed there as long as I did (1 year).