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{{Quotation2|Except that blogs aren’t personal, if by “personal” you mean “private,” unless you’re on a system that lets you set them to private – so that nobody, or nobody you don’t specifically allow, can access them – and you choose to actually set your blog private.  LiveJournal and its offspring allow this, for example.  So far as I can tell, having only been here for a few months, Tumblr doesn’t.

{{Quotation2|Except that blogs aren’t personal, if by “personal” you mean “private,” unless you’re on a system that lets you set them to private – so that nobody, or nobody you don’t specifically allow, can access them – and you choose to actually set your blog private.  LiveJournal and its offspring allow this, for example.  So far as I can tell, having only been here for a few months, Tumblr doesn’t.

Anything you post in the open on the internet is public.  Other people can read it.  Other people can link to it.  Other people can comment on it.  If you want to write something that’s private, that only you can access, that nobody else can jump in and comment on – that is, if you want to just talk to yourself and nobody else – then your best bet is that locked bedroom and a paper diary.  Anyone who thinks Tumblr is like a paper diary is delusional.  Anyone who gets upset when some stranger comments on something they posted on the internet, in public, is ridiculously ignorant/naive, or is deliberately drama-queening. <ref> {{source| url = http://angelapenrose.tumblr.com/post/137225968318/coffee-iv-i-think-one-of-the-biggest-problems | title = angelapenrose.tumblr| archiveurl =http://www.webcitation.org/6emEB9sz4| archivedate =2016-01-24}} </ref>}}}}

Anything you post in the open on the internet is public.  Other people can read it.  Other people can link to it.  Other people can comment on it.  If you want to write something that’s private, that only you can access, that nobody else can jump in and comment on – that is, if you want to just talk to yourself and nobody else – then your best bet is that locked bedroom and a paper diary.  Anyone who thinks Tumblr is like a paper diary is delusional.  Anyone who gets upset when some stranger comments on something they posted on the internet, in public, is ridiculously ignorant/naive, or is deliberately drama-queening. <ref> {{source| url = http://angelapenrose.tumblr.com/post/137225968318/coffee-iv-i-think-one-of-the-biggest-problems | title = angelapenrose.tumblr| archiveurl =http://www.webcitation.org/6emEB9sz4| archivedate =2016-01-24}} </ref>}}  

{{Quotation2|So remember the old days, when we used to write about other people's posts in our own spaces rather than just reblogging everything, maybe with commentary, maybe with a few thoughts hidden in the tags? I miss those days, so here I am, being the change I want to see.  

{{Quotation2|So remember the old days, when we used to write about other people's posts in our own spaces rather than just reblogging everything, maybe with commentary, maybe with a few thoughts hidden in the tags? I miss those days, so here I am, being the change I want to see.  

I get the desire to have your entire community living on a single site. But the days of One Platform to Rule Them All are long behind us, if that particular beast ever even existed. Is it more trouble to go to Twitter for news and links, Tumblr for images and memes, Dreamwidth for meta and discussion, AO3 for fic? Maybe so, but I find that playing to the strengths of each site is making me happier overall. If that means I drift away from some elements of my fandom community, so be it -- I miss some people who I don't see nearly as much as I used to, but I hope to enjoy the time I do spend interacting with them all the more.

I get the desire to have your entire community living on a single site. But the days of One Platform to Rule Them All are long behind us, if that particular beast ever even existed. Is it more trouble to go to Twitter for news and links, Tumblr for images and memes, Dreamwidth for meta and discussion, AO3 for fic? Maybe so, but I find that playing to the strengths of each site is making me happier overall. If that means I drift away from some elements of my fandom community, so be it -- I miss some people who I don't see nearly as much as I used to, but I hope to enjoy the time I do spend interacting with them all the more.

<nowiki>*</nowiki>Linking to a reblog because the OP deleted the post. The respondent here words things more strongly than I would have, but as you might guess I largely agree. The fact that the OP can delete but the reblogs live on forever is a whole other can of worms with Tumblr's design, but getting into that would be a different post. <ref> {{source| url = http://owlmoose.dreamwidth.org/733808.html | title = owlmoose | Tumblr, fandom, and setting expectations }}  </ref>}}}}

<nowiki>*</nowiki>Linking to a reblog because the OP deleted the post. The respondent here words things more strongly than I would have, but as you might guess I largely agree. The fact that the OP can delete but the reblogs live on forever is a whole other can of worms with Tumblr's design, but getting into that would be a different post. <ref> {{source| url = http://owlmoose.dreamwidth.org/733808.html | title = owlmoose | Tumblr, fandom, and setting expectations }}  </ref>}}

==Common Tumblr Terms==

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