this got a bit ranty

[oanja]

Almost done with work for the summer. This last bit is basically useless as I'm only working half the day, for four hours, but I couldn't really say no to the money either... At least I should get enough money to pay mom back for paying this months rent for me. =/

Hockey fic is now 30,000 words long, oh dear. ^_^; This is getting pretty ridiculous when you take into consideration that the pairing I'm writing doesn't even exist, so I think maybe ten people will read it... Buuut anyway, it's been fun. I'm going to finish this and then maybe look at that Teen Wolf fic I abandoned last winter. I kinda liked the idea I had for it and writing is fun once you get over the hurdle of actually starting. :P

I have followed new people on tumblr in the past three months and man, you can definitely tell when you are following teenagers. And I'm not dissing teenagers, they can be great... but they can be super annoying too. One person I follow keeps posting new selfies of herself every day, sometimes multiple ones a day and it's the exact same photo every time. (I mean her clothes change and sometimes she's wearing make-up or headphones etc, so you know it's not actually the same photo, but she always makes the same face, tilts her head the same way and she looks exactly the same in every freaking photo. I don't even know how it's even possible) They are also worried about things like band camp (which I mostly thought only existed in fanfic) and what boys think about them.

Man I'm so glad I'm not a teenager anymore. I can't even imagine what I would have posted online at 15-16 if tumblr had been a thing and I had had a computer. I can't even remember what I was into at 16... Fantasy books, pretty much. (I think I was writing my own fantasy story at the time, in notebooks for fucks sake... (this was back in 2002 and not like the 1980's in case someone is wondering. :D)

Then there are the people who keep posting those 'ask me a question' memes. I hate those the most. What is worse that having to scroll through a hundred questions (especially when I don't have endless scrolling on, so one meme takes up most of the page!? Why can't people use the read more option if they have to keep posting those memes?) and those keep going. One of these new people also got cyber bullied really badly a few weeks ago. I don't know what started it, but after like a day, she was getting anon messages telling her to kill herself! WTF!? Why would anyone send something like that to anyone??? Also, I don't know why people A) have anon abled when they get anon hate and B) why they try to answer those messages. I would say 'ignore and delete' because otherwise you are just feeding the trolls and at least in this case it also seemed to escalate the whole thing, making it worse and worse.

And this turned into a rant post about tumblr. I can't believe I spend so much time on that site. Sometimes I really miss LJ.

I really miss hockey too. I've been so starved for hockey things, that I actually went through the whole Backhandshelf blog for last season and listened to most of their podcasts. Can the new season start already, please?

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[musical-junkie.livejournal.com]

OMG. I'm a couple years younger than you, but the "youths" on Tumblr annoy me, too. I guess it's because I don't see Tumblr as a social media platform as much as a media sharing platform, and teenagers are the opposite. Like, it's all about them, rather than all about fandoms and sports and memes. And, because everything is an individual post, it's far less effective and if you're having a conversation with someone in comments, you're clogging up everyone's dashboards.

And, it's so weird, because I don't feel that removed from high school/college, but all of these posts from people who are about to be college freshman just do not click with me. And all of the prom drama in the spring and SO MUCH BOY drama. Holy shit.

[oanja.livejournal.com]

Yes! You really nailed it. I mean I don't mind personal posts, but I also don't understand how you are supposed to react to them? Are you supposed to 'like' them or something, etc. It really isn't meant for socializing imo and I'm really impressed with people who actually make friends on it. Like how is that even possible?

So much drama about everything! Even in the context of fandom, drama and negative things move around so fast. It's really hard to avoid stuff like that, especially when you go to a new fandom and are looking for tumblr blogs to follow. It takes time to find the level headed people, or people who share your way of doing fandom. (wow that makes almost no sense, sorry)

[musical-junkie.livejournal.com]

I totally know what you mean. I generally don't follow new people much anymore, unless they're people I know from elsewhere or are friends of friends. Drama gets out of hand so quickly, because there's no guarantee that people are going to see your clarifications or responses if one of your posts/comments gets misinterpreted. Once you post something on Tumblr, you don't have control over it anymore, and all of a sudden your inside joke with a friend has people yelling at you for being an elitist musical theater fan (I'm speaking from experience here).

I do occasionally post personal stuff, but more as a record for myself instead of posting on LJ multiple times per day (I post daily anyway, and I do it at the end of the day, so I just sort of condense from Tumblr.) I'm also not sitting there on Tumblr expecting a reaction from people. It's my Tumblr, and I'm posting that stuff for me, not for feedback from other people, so I don't get upset if no one reblogs/responds/likes or whatever.

The people I know who have made friends via Tumblr sort of extend those friendships to Twitter and Facebook and texting, as far as I can tell. I don't know of more than a couple of friendships that are based exclusively on Tumblr, and I certainly don't have any.

[oanja.livejournal.com]

I generally just follow fandom tumblrs, like great Teen Wolf blogs or hockey blogs. It only get's weird when those people start posting personal stuff too, or get involved in drama. Then I have to choose if they are worth the follow anyway. ^_^;

Yeah, posting like that makes sense to me too. Except that it's pretty hard to even find your own posts on tumblr later. I just don't get how the tagging system doesn't even show all posts tagged with the same tag... fail. So as far as archives go, it only works the way you use it: short term.

And that would make sense Branching out to other platforms. :) Personally I dislike twitter even more than tumblr and I just use it to follow hockey players at the moment :D (I'm pretty much a failboat when it comes to social networking)

[messy-kisses.livejournal.com]

*töktök* let me know when you're available for skype. :) (piti laittaa tekstari mutta kännykkä on ainakin huoneen toisella puolella, en mä sinne asti jaksa xD)

[oanja.livejournal.com]

Aaah! Sori näin tän sun viestin kännykässä ja sit unohin tietty vastata siihen! =( Mut siis mulla ei edelleen skype toimi, me yritettiin sitä korjata Johannan kanssa kun se oli täällä käymässä. Mulle ei vaan kuulu mitään niissä puheluissa, eikä siihen mikään tunnu auttavan, vaikka oon asentanu sen ohjelman uuvestaan jo ties kuinka monta kertaa jne...

Ja sit vielä se mesekin yhisty skypen kanssa, eli en ees sitä voi enää käyttää sitte korvikkeena.

[messy-kisses.livejournal.com]

Ah, voi ei. :( Voikos sulle soittaa sitten ihan kännykällä? :D Ei maksa kauheesti jos ei montaa tuntia höpötä. :D

[oanja.livejournal.com]

Joo se on tosi ärsyttävää, en tajua. *grr* ja joo totta kai voi soittaa ihan oikeeseenki puhelimeen. :D