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So I keep mulling over the idea that I should change my Tumblr or get a second one to talk about political stuff. Because it seems like that is where All The Discourse is happening in real time these days, and then I get lost and confused when people bring stuff up here or on Twitter.

Except when I think about it hard enough, I realise that that wouldn't be good for my brain.

Because, see, Tumblr for me works really well to post pictures of sexy people and cute animals and ridiculous stuff and the occasional thought too long for Twitter. But I find it really intensely difficult to follow all the intricacies of a complicated discussion on there. I need responses and discussion on one page or with a diagram with easy to follow hyperlinks like a branching tree. For me, the Tumblr method is great for clicking about, a la a bored day of Wikipedia surfing, but I can't read it for srs bsns unless I'm sticking to one person.

Otherwise I miss stuff that's really vitally important and don't have the spoons to go chasing it down. Hell, I neglect to answer LJ/DW comments and I get emails about those, ffs.

It's not Tumblr, it's me. My brain is borked. It's a self-realisation that is awkward as hell. And I'm angry at myself for not getting it because there is interesting shit going on that I'm missing.

More on the psychiatrist later.

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imho tumblr is for shiny things and cute animals; things that you can post/reblog without having to think too much. case in point, seen those long reblogs? they're impossible to keep up with. but I suppose they can be used for "short and dense".

I'm probably young enough for you to call me a youngster, but I'm one of very ancient souls who has trouble using a computer. Machines confuse me. Anything on the internet makes very little intuitive sense to me, except maybe email. And LJ/DW.

Eep, hope you weren't insulted by the 'youngster' bit.

It looks like a lot of people are in the same boat with this, both here and on LJ. Tumblr just doesn't make intuitive sense as an active text blogging platform.

Oh no, not at all *g* I interpreted it as affectionate, and so responded in the same vein. Bit hard to tell with just text, really.

Aye, if they changed the reblogging format perhaps it would make sense, but for now, no. TEXTWALL is not my idea of a good day.

IAWTC. My attentionspan woes cannot keep up with tumblr. I use it for thoughts-longer-than-twitter, and also shiny-pictures, and I reblog nice quotes from Zuzu and signal-boosts from Jha, and that's about it, really.