Posting and Caring

Something just hit me about Tumblr compared to other social media sites.

On Tumblr I don't five a flying fu.. two hoots what I post. I don't care what my followers think or how they will react, and I rarely put much thought into it. Mostly I just hit the reblog button. I don't even care enough to tag - sorry, I just don't. The only things I try to tag responsibly are spoilers because I don't want to be THAT person :).

Every other social media site, even Facebook, heaven help me, I care.

Sometimes my posts might be ravings about nothing, but I still care how I present it, how I spell it, what I'm saying, how its tagged etc.

That probably says a great deal about how disconnected I feel from Tumblr and I think it comes back to one simple thing communication. You can even communicate better on Twitter than on Tumblr and that only has 140 chars!

[Edit - thought some more] : On Tumblr I feel disconnected from those around me. I don't look at user names and I rarely know who's posting what (unless it's moonlettuce and then I can usually guess ;)). My brain just goes, oh, that's pretty, reblog, oh, that sounds interesting. On LJ it feels much more like I know people, even if we've only exchanged a few words over the years. Same on here, even though I'm not quite feeling the same level of love for the platform yet :). Imzy feels much more connected, like Livejournal, not like Tumblr.

What about you?