Tumblr Resolutions

I’ve been using Tumblr for a good three months now and I’ve realized what I want to use it for. For a while I’ve been afraid of the word blog, about having a blog, about having a website. To me, blogging has always been whiny teens crying about their lives as they cut themselves. I didn’t really stop to think that a blog is what you make it. Yes, there are stigmas that come with having a blog but those can be quickly lost if you’re blog is something more than “I had a bad day, I’m going to cut myself now.”

For three months I’ve used and observed Tumblr from all kinds of perspectives. I’ve gone the “post a lot of vidoes, links, and pictures from Flickr” route; I’ve gone the “write about myself a lot” route. I’ve mixed the two as well. I’ve had a blog for a few years now, changing names, urls, and designs but one thing has always remained constant: I like to write about the things that happen in my life and I like to blast and rant about things that I think are absurd in our culture and society today.

Tumblr boasts a main page with semi-artsy pictures and posts and to be honest, that’s not me. I’ve decided to stop charging for the main page with posts that don’t mean much, things that try to reel you in for a reblog. Honestly, I don’t care about reblogs. I just want a few people to read what I have to say, maybe get a laugh or a smile out of it and go on with their day.

From here out it will be all me. Pictures I take, things that happen to me, videos, music, whatever. It’s going to be more about me and less about other people and the Internet.  If I find something that truely floors me, I’ll put it up here but no longer and I going to be part of this rat race that I find a lot of the people I follow are in. They all want to be on the Tumblr main page, they all want fame and fortune from this. And hey, if that’s you, keep doing what you’re doing. As long as you’re having fun with this, that’s all that matters.

Me, I like to write and I feel I haven’t done that so much lately. That changes now.

See you on the other side of my intervention.