Why Tumblr can never replace LJ

[yendi]

See this.

More generally, it can't replace LJ, Blogger, Wordpress, Twitter, or even Facebook, because I have never seen a site less suited towards actually having a conversation.

(Note: I'm fine with Tumblr in other contexts, just not for anything that involves interacting with other people. For a social media tool, it's remarkably antisocial.)

Comments

[amokk]

Tumblr is horrific for "conversations". What makes it worse is people not understanding how public posts, public replies, public anything works, and that there's no real notification system. If someone replies, you have to scan your feed to see the "joe bob reblogged you" and check to see if text was added, or if they just reblogged as-is.

The "public" part that is problematic, and this is a problem on twitter as well, is people not understanding how space ownership works. People aren't posting on your blog/twitter/tumblr, they're copying you and replying on theirs. So you dont' "own" the space, so you lose that level of control (people on twitter saying "get off my twitter" or "get out of my feed" like, wtf, that's not how twitter works...).

Blah. Anyway.

This is one of the many reasons I stopped using tumblr for conversations/interactions/whatever and just went back to it being an image feed.

[greylistening.livejournal.com]

I think of tumblr as a bunch of voyeurs all unbeknownst to one another.