Tumblr Trial

Gary wrote about forced adoption about a week ago. This post isn’t going to be about that, but it is about adoption. I just like referencing Gary because it’s fun.

My father is an early adopter. Like, he was the first one on the block to get a DVD player, the first one on the block to get a Blu-ray player, the only one on the block to get a Laserdisc player (the precursor to DVDs in case you didn’t know)…so, naturally, that pushed me in the opposite direction and I rebelled and became somewhat ~retro~. I didn’t buy a mobile phone for many years, I didn’t join facebook until the last minute and I avoided MySpace altogether, but lately as life takes me more onto the web, there are some cool social media platforms that catch my interest right away. One of those things was Twitter and the next is Tumblr.

My Tumblr account is only a few hours old, and I’m still futzing about with the format, layout and profile, but it really is quite magical. It’s blogging, simplified. As I wrote in my first post here, I like things that are pretty and brief, and I don’t know if it’s the nature of Tumblr itself or the tumble blogs that I follow, but that pretty much surmises the breadth of Tumblr: longer and more visually stunning than a tweet, shorter than a full-length article.

Oh, and the ease of it, Tumblr let’s you put a link into your toolbar so that whenever you’re searching the web and see something cool that you want to post, you just click on the link in your toolbar and BAM! up comes a window that takes you to the next couple of steps for re-blogging on your site without making you leave the page. And it’s just as easy to re-blog content that you find on someone else’s account (which it automatically credits) to your tumblelog, creating your own hodgepodge quilt of multi-media finds.

One of my favorite features (so far) is that, like Twitter, you can follow other people’s Tumblr accounts to see the latest links, audio and video, all in your dashboard. So when I log in for the day, I get a constant stream of all the awesome flotsam and jetsam floating around the Internet in one place, and from people whose taste matches my own.

There is still more exploring to be done (so far, I only recommend it for personal use), and… who knows? This may be like the great FAO Schwartz fiasco of the early 90’s, where I begged and finally procured an interactive drawing toy from the famed toy company, only to become bored with it in five minutes and never play with it again. Come to think of it, y’know…perhaps that’s what put me off early adoption in the first place…

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