Tumblr, on the other hand, is not a place for my thoughts and feelings. Tumblr is about my feelings, making them trite and contagious. There is a beauty in the way that I suddenly feel like a small point in a mass of humanity, the kind of thing you feel when you live in a city like New York. But, the things that I would like to lay claim to as being original and my own are things I’d rather keep to myself, for fear of being misappropriated: taken through the odd contraptions that make up other peoples’ brains, the gaps in what I meant and what I can say filled with whatever they’d like to think. Sometimes it feels as if the reblog button is a building machine that strips something of its’ meaning with each iteration.
Ninakix’s Posterous - Better bring a battle axe.
I wrote this yesterday. I’m excerpting this part of the post because gbattle asked why I no longer post blog posts to Tumblr. I guess it just comes down to a general sense that the platform, its’ social conventions, doesn’t feel like a place for or respectful of the things I actually spend time on.
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Or perhaps reblog makes ideas bigger and more accessible…wait I just did it didn’t I?
Perhaps giving the option to prohibit reblog would solve this. But for me, sharing is what makes Tumblr tumble.
While I do not agree, I appreciate you voicing your opinion, specifically on the format that can be reblogged.
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