social networking

[rusty_halo]

Trying to figure out how to use tumblr vs other social networks. I think maybe the breakdown is something like:

tumblr = random shiny things
delicious = fic and meta recs
lj/dw/wp = actual writing and thoughts
twitter = no
facebook = hell no
google plus = google, i do not want to be a pawn in your doomed attempt to kill facebook

Does this sound right?

Anyway if you want to follow me on tumblr, I am at http://drinkthehalo.tumblr.com (aaaah someone stole both my aliases already!! so i had to make a stupid hybrid name).

Please link me to yours if you have one; I’d love to follow you guys there too. :)

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Comments

[kalliel]

Yeah, that sounds about right to me. XD I'm also trying to get ~up on all my social networking opportunities. A fair number of my friends actually hold meta/speculation convos on Twitter though for the life of me I cannot FIGURE OUT HOW. They swear to me it'll make sense the more time I spend there but I'm not seeing this. I need my threaded conversations, okay.

My Tumblr name is mikake; I've started following you~

[rusty_halo]

Cool, I am following you back. :)

I don't understand how people can communicate effectively without threaded conversations! Ah well, if nothing else I will just enjoy the pretty pictures.

[poshcat]

Ha, Tumblr is definitely all about the random shiny things! As far as I can tell, there isn't communicating on Tumblr so much as sharing things...and then being offended by what other people have shared. Everyone is continually offended, which is rather enjoyable.

I'll be on the lookout for Avengers posts for you. :0D

[rusty_halo]

Added you back. :)

I'm going to try to avoid the offended people and just ogle the shiny things. ;)

[nutmeg3]

You forgot pinterest, which is random even shinier things. But this part:

<< twitter = no
facebook = hell no >>

cracked me up, because it's exactly how I feel.

[rusty_halo]

Ah, yes, I was thinking about pinterest. I've never actually been to the site, just read that it's the hot new thing, and that the men are confused because it's full of ladies.

Does it offer anything fannishly worthwhile?

Twitter is like... I have nothing against the people who like it, but it offers me absolutely nothing. I don't want to be the star of my own reality show; I want to lurk and oggle. Thus tumblr is far more appealing. ;)

And Facebook, well, the less said the better. I am praying that the failed IPO is its first step down the path that AOL and MySpace tread before it...

[nutmeg3]

I suspect there's a fannish aspect to pinterest but I don't do anything fannish there, so I'm just not exposed to it.

And nothing could make me happier than to see Facebook go belly up.

[eumelkeks]

That sums it up pretty well.