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It does, in non-ridiculous-land.
If you're looking for more delicious clashing between world improvers picking silly causes and clueless autistics, try http://bronyetiquette.tumblr.com/tagged/bronyetiquette.
As for Tumblr, the only interesting part I find about it are the Ask blogs. Plenty of good art in there, only a shame the questions crop are put up in the pictures and the shit isn't watermarked, so usage as a reaction image would mean shooping the shit over and over.
It's funny, amongst the local cosplay community, more people use Tumblr than Twitter (which I think has the larger userbase), and they talk about their Tumblrs from time to time. They don't act like it's Fight Club Turbo Championship Blog Edition.
Hell, I'm even mutual followers with some of them. So, nyah.
I've never seen the point of Twitter, honestly.
Think of it as Facebook's status feed, but without having to have Facebook attached.
Which doesn't really mean that much to me, as I tend to see Facebook status messages as something completely auxilliary to the whole thing. I've always appreciated Facebook's versatility, and the 140 character limit on Twitter makes it impossible to write anything of real substance. Also, it makes conversations a pain in the ass.
Twitter isn't for conversations.
Twitter can have it's uses, like for status updates at an event or companies dropping links and updates. But for your average user, the character limit is too strict to be of any real use.
^ Yeah, that and perhaps celebrity feeds.
IJBM: I'm creating a Tumblr in the event that I ever feel like using it, but apparently allnines is taken. What's more, i had a bunch of ideas for alternate usernames recently, but I can't remember any of them.
Maybe ninetheclimber?
Maybe. But even then, I sorta want to try for something that feels more like a proper username this time around. I dunno.
Twitter is much more of a publicity tool than Facebook. Twitter is also a great way to get sensitive information out and let it travel peer-to-peer.
I don't plan on getting a Tumblr until I actually have something of my own to contribute to it. >_> So, it may be a while.
(God, why the fuck did I bring Twitter into this discussion...)
The 140-character limit is a holdover from when Twitter was mostly for cellphone users--140 characters for the tweet itself and 20 more for the username field. Unless they do away with their SMS service or SMSes somehow get a larger character limit, it's not going away anytime soon.
Personally I don't care for celebritity tweets. It is very possible to have a conversation, you just need to use your words more creatively. (It's also more useful for people speaking East Asian languages, since they can cram more content into 140 characters.)
If Twitter was pointless then I wouldn't have so many favorites :P
Tumblr is.
That is all.
It was pantsu day and nobody told me? :c
That is the most wonderfully ludicrous concept that I have ever heard. It's like Pi Day with underwear, or an even more ridiculous answer to 4/20.
Yeah. I think Pantsu Day is even sillier than Twintail Day (February 2), though I'm quite amused by both of them.
I think a lot of people treat Tumblr as a place that should be immune from RL consequences where they can let their inner whatever out. Whether that "whatever" is judgmental-ass, fetishist, obsessive fan, bigot ...
I don't take it ridiculously seriously at all, the whole "do not mention Tumblr" shtick has always been kinda dumb to me. Then again, nobody's called me out on it since I'm just one of those regulars on the site who isn't necessarily "famous" at all or whatever.
I've been on there for three years now and only have 225 followers (none of whom would give a crap anyway). So yeah.
Tumblr's the one blogging-type site where my following-to-follower ratio is actually less than 1.0 (288 following, 302 followers). (Formspring could also count, but I don't touch it often.) I've been trying to unclutter my dashboard by unfollowing blogs that post content I don't care for.
I am unable to figure out how August 2nd or "8/2" has anything to do with pants, panties, or pantsu.
Maybe this is a good thing?
8=hachi=ha≈pa
2=two=tsuu≈tsu
82≈patsu≈pantsu
(or something along those lines)
Basically it's a ridiculously stupid, extremely forced number pun, and Japanese people love stuff like that apparently.
This is probably a massive generalization, but my impression of Tumblr is that it's mostly made up of the following:
-Rabid fans of various things (including Homestuck).
-Overly-aggressive Social Justice bloggers who you might not see on the national debate circuit.
-PORN PORN PORN PORN
-Blogs of creators of media and stuff (that are actually rather interesting).
Then again, I'm not much of a social networking-kind of guy.
There's a truth to that, but I found that it can be easily solved by actually not following stupid people and never ever searching tags unless you have the patience of a saint.
Tumblr Savior is a useful filtering plugin. And it recently got a proper verison for my browser (as opposed to that Greasemonkey BS that doesn't tell me which keywords are in a filtered post), Firefox, so yay! Although it has a problem with false positives if I throw "nsfw" into the blacklist.