Is Tubmlr the Next Big Thing?

Although Facebook and Twitter are popular sites in the social networking world, another site has come along that has Fleetwood students very interested. Tumblr is a website that allows you to blog and post pictures, videos, links, quotes, and audio to your profile. Users are able to “follow” other people and re-blog whatever the Tumblr user posts. Tumblr is a site where authors can remain anonymous if they would like.

Fleetwood student and Tumblr user Jenna Dantas prefers Tumblr over Facebook.  Said Dantas, “You don’t see annoying people like you do on Facebook, and it’s more anonymous, so you follow people you don’t know.”

Another Tumblr user, FAHS junior Julie Sipos, said, “It’s cool to look at other people’s pictures, and it’s more of an artistic thing.”

On Tumblr, a lot of people post their own photography and let others re-post their work.

FAHS senior Derek Petersen, a big music fan, said, “Tumblr is a good way to listen to unsigned bands and spread their music around through your profile to other people’s.”

Tumblr is a very easy way to express yourself because the site makes it effortless to share text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos from your browser, phone, desktop, email, or whatever other form of technology you may happen to have at your disposal. Whenever you have something to post, you can do so in seconds.

Tumblr’s platform is very different from the competition, making it more complex than Twitter and more interesting than Facebook. The site takes more time to fully comprehend before customizing , but that’s what actually makes the software great.

If you want a place to blog and express yourself, Tumblr is definitely the website for you.

“I do and I don’t suggest people use this,” said Dantas. “People should use it because it’s fun, but they shouldn’t because I don’t want people seeing my stuff.”