Mr-Knowsitall: Missing Emails and Medications
Ms. TD asks, “Dear Mr Knowsitall, why don’t I get anything in my inbox?”
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You first met many of your friends on StumbleUpon. They had pages and ‘online identities’ there, until they became bored and opened additional pages, each with different identities.
Nice work, Mr KIA, though I disagree with your verdict on Facebook. I think there is lots of reading there, assuming you explore the links people post, and making comments on them is far more rewarding than on the other networks because it is immediate and you can see both the original post (at least a portion of it) and a range of comments on screen at once.
I love the democratic nature of that, whereas Tumblr, cos of the way the dashboard works, leads mostly to clicking a heart and reblogging - not v interesting unless you have a point, a theme or something to add to what you’ve lifted.I can see YOU do, but most people don’t. And wtf has Tumblr done to the set-up for reblogging items that include more than a few words? It hasn’t even given me the option to republish your whole post — instead you’ve been cut off before you’ve even started your rant! Why can’t I be the judge of how much to reblog or quote, as was the case in the past? Well I was already getting pissed off at the way images are favoured over words in Tumblr, but this change of set-up has made me angry.
If they published thumbnail images instead of small grey rectangles in illustrated link and text posts appearing on Tumblr dashboards I would feel better; a few more people might click through and investigate what is being posted. But as things stand they’re simply encouraging, and getting, moronic dashboard surfing, no better than the click click click being fostered in StumbleUpon. I have generally found people on this network are in too much of a hurry to even open a link. They are looking largely at pictures on a dashboard rather than members’ pages, and missing much of what is being offered. That says a lot about them but it also says a lot about Tumblr’s directors — who are paying more attention to widgets than attracting substance or giving this network a chance at being taken seriously. And personally when I find a couple of throwaway pic posts that took me exactly a minute to put up and involved nothing more than a cut and paste gain “love” out of all proportion to something that I put some thought into, I think … why bother?
