BTW I enjoy how Pinterest is even more thought-numbing than Tumblr is. The core Tumblr software allows you to reblog anything, but the context is that you are blogging it and YOU probably should have an opinion about it that is definite and nuanced. Tumblr allows you to share and have no opinion at all, of course, and the way the community is run suggests that it’s better for everyone if you just share without commenting, but you are given (mostly) every chance along the way to not only share thoughts but to also have those thoughts stand on nearly equal ground with the original media. It seems Pinterest, on the other hand, is purely a mechanism for viral sharing. If I had something that I wanted to share with the world, but I wished to add a thought or reaction to it that I wanted to have equal visibility with the source link in my own post… Pinterest seems like a poor place to do that.
It’s a great place to establish a list of things seen around the web with the implicit endorsement of, “I liked this!” As a matter of fact, it’s better than Tumblr for that.
But if that’s how you mainly communicate with the outside world, you really don’t have much to say. All of these social “likes” and link shares from people who lack overwhelming popular authority have the same value/power as a phone call vote into “American Idol”. PRO TIP: don’t put it on your resume.
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artyucko replied:
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theblueprint said:
there’s a shitload of people who use tumblr as the “sears wishbook for your life”. pintrest just streamlines that process.
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