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{{Quotation2|i think one of the biggest problems with tumblr is that it’s a blogging platform (personal) which people treat as a forum (public) and there is zero boundary between these two functions. as a result you get people readily and preparedly engaging in public debate with other people who are essentially talking to themselves.

{{Quotation2|i think one of the biggest problems with tumblr is that it’s a blogging platform (personal) which people treat as a forum (public) and there is zero boundary between these two functions. as a result you get people readily and preparedly engaging in public debate with other people who are essentially talking to themselves.

it’s like sitting in your locked bedroom writing in your diary, only at any moment jeremy paxman can pop out and question you on international television <ref> {{source| url = http://angelapenrose.tumblr.com/post/137225968318/coffee-iv-i-think-one-of-the-biggest-problems | title = coffee-iv.tumbler| archiveurl =http://www.webcitation.org/6emEB9sz4| archivedate =2016-01-24}} </ref> (offline shortly after it was posted, has 45262 notes}}

it’s like sitting in your locked bedroom writing in your diary, only at any moment jeremy paxman can pop out and question you on international television <ref> {{source| url = http://angelapenrose.tumblr.com/post/137225968318/coffee-iv-i-think-one-of-the-biggest-problems | title = coffee-iv.tumbler| archiveurl =http://www.webcitation.org/6emEB9sz4| archivedate =2016-01-24}} </ref> (offline shortly after it was posted, had 45262 notes)}}

{{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.