Tumblr Free Day

[kitewithfish]

Last night I had the bright idea of removing the Tumblr app from the homepage on my phone (not deleting it! Just moving it out of sight) and man, I am glad I did. I keep reflexively looking for it when I have a minute to myself, because Tumblr was good for distractions and new stuff and pretty pretty art, but not for community. 

Whereas anytime I open up a DW window I end up with nine tabs and three replies to write because To Be A Fan On DW is to be a chatty, chatty human being. XD

Does the social media you're using effect who you are on that platform?  I tend to think it does, but I am betting people have other experiences.

I have tried to establish Kitewithfish as Who I Am in fandom with little IRL crossover, so most of my online stuff is as a version of myself slightly detached from people who might google my name. Who I am online with fannish folks is different than I am with people on, say, Facebook, but it's pretty close to who I am in person. I have mostly kept FB a Fandom Free Zone for me, since god, that site gives me the Heebies AND the Jeebies, but I happily chat about fanfic with people who know me in life, tho I am coy about usernames. 

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

Moving the app sounds like it was a good idea. And I know what you mean about all the tabs building up!

In my case, I don't think so. Although I don't use Tumblr a lot, I've also made next to no effort to connect with anyone there and that's been true in reverse. It's just not a place for conversation so it's easy to see it as just a place to access different content.

What different platforms do have an effect on though is how difficult or easy they make it for me to take part and engage with other people.

[kitewithfish]

Although I don't use Tumblr a lot, I've also made next to no effort to connect with anyone there and that's been true in reverse. It's just not a place for conversation so it's easy to see it as just a place to access different content.

If anything good has come out of the Tumblr purge, it's realize just how isolating it was as a fan. I saw good stuff, I read good stuff, and I wasn't really talking to anyone regularly - even people whose blogs I loved to read, contact fizzled fast if I reached out.

I think that's part of the reason why DW has felt so positive in the last few weeks - there's just a lot of people actually talking to each other, and I hadn't realized how much I'd missed that, and how little effort I had previously been putting in with Tumblr fandom.

[alchemistdoctor]

This is just a solid agreement with what you said. We don't have a like button here. :)