I think the thing that makes it difficult for me is I have all the same
problems as you with the medium of tumblr, especially
I think because people are used to communicating in soundbytes, so they try
to get across 'you are wrong' as quickly as possible. Here, my response -
long and rambling as it is - clogs up Tumblr pages. I think everyone is
aware of 'shortening' even in reblogs, even if a response is longer than a
reply/ask.
but I've met a bunch of really cool people there who don't use dreamwidth
(or not as much) My dreamwidth friends are great too but when it's
the tumblr people having the specific interesting conversation I want to
engage with it feels weird to move it to dreamwidth.
This despite planning on just using the sqbr tumblr as a "whatever cool
things pass my way" impersonal reblogging account. I guess I shouldn't
compalin about meeting more cool people :)
I do need to get better about privately contacting people. It's a mental
block of mine in general, even though public conversations have a bunch of
downsides they lack the special kind of self consciousness I get in private
conversation (and not in comments. Ah, if only tumblr had them...which I
guess ties into your point about different social media having different
feels)
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I think the thing that makes it difficult for me is I have all the same problems as you with the medium of tumblr, especially I think because people are used to communicating in soundbytes, so they try to get across 'you are wrong' as quickly as possible. Here, my response - long and rambling as it is - clogs up Tumblr pages. I think everyone is aware of 'shortening' even in reblogs, even if a response is longer than a reply/ask.
but I've met a bunch of really cool people there who don't use dreamwidth (or not as much) My dreamwidth friends are great too but when it's the tumblr people having the specific interesting conversation I want to engage with it feels weird to move it to dreamwidth.
This despite planning on just using the sqbr tumblr as a "whatever cool things pass my way" impersonal reblogging account. I guess I shouldn't compalin about meeting more cool people :)
I do need to get better about privately contacting people. It's a mental block of mine in general, even though public conversations have a bunch of downsides they lack the special kind of self consciousness I get in private conversation (and not in comments. Ah, if only tumblr had them...which I guess ties into your point about different social media having different feels)