I'm glad you posted this -- like you said on twitter, it's hard to say this stuff in 140 characters.
I've found I'm also really not a tumblr person, partly for the same reasons you give. (The other part is that I just have never wanted to take the time to figure out how to really use tumblr, so I end up seeing spoilers I'd rather avoid and reading the same BtVS fights people have been having for the last 15 years and ugh.)
I also like twitter for the immediate interaction! You really put your finger on something, though, with the immediacy of interactions on twitter vs sitting alone with yourself composing a post. Ideally, for me anyway, twitter and dreamwidth could be complementary, but the reality has been that I interact on twitter and mostly only read DW, with little commenting and even less posting. Which is better, from the "don't let journals die!" perspective, than not engaging in DW at all, but at the same time I'm not helping much.
Though, when awesome people talk about journals dying, my first instinct is to shout "NO, don't leave! I just found y'all..."
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Date: 2014-05-03 10:01 pm (UTC)I've found I'm also really not a tumblr person, partly for the same reasons you give. (The other part is that I just have never wanted to take the time to figure out how to really use tumblr, so I end up seeing spoilers I'd rather avoid and reading the same BtVS fights people have been having for the last 15 years and ugh.)
I also like twitter for the immediate interaction! You really put your finger on something, though, with the immediacy of interactions on twitter vs sitting alone with yourself composing a post. Ideally, for me anyway, twitter and dreamwidth could be complementary, but the reality has been that I interact on twitter and mostly only read DW, with little commenting and even less posting. Which is better, from the "don't let journals die!" perspective, than not engaging in DW at all, but at the same time I'm not helping much.
Though, when awesome people talk about journals dying, my first instinct is to shout "NO, don't leave! I just found y'all..."