Heh - believe me, I completely get it. I am one of those dinosaurs clinging to mailing lists! (Although not zines -- I loved them, and I love the carefully selected few I've hung onto, but I stopped buying them a decade ago and don't regret it.) I avoided journals like the plague for almost a decade. I'm baffled that I'm actually in the middle of the pack getting settled on tumblr.
But I think some of what I'm liking about it is the sheer energy and enthusiasm; the speed and noise are too much for me sometimes, but I kind of love the sheer "whee!" of it all. That could be partly because I'm looking at Avengers stuff, of which there is boatloads, but I'm also following a very small fandom, Person of Interest, which on tumblr is active and happy and chatty and welcoming (like, literally: some of them have set up a chat room, and regularly post to welcome new people to join it), and on DW is scattered and hard to find and consists of maybe one post a week somewhere, if you can find it.
So I can totally see why it doesn't work for lots of people, and god knows for months I'd just sort of look at it every few weeks, poke it, and walk away confused about why anyone would want to do this. But it's been really interesting hitting the tipping point of "oh hey, I think I'm using this now. Huh." - pretty much just in the last couple of weeks.
The gifs are truly incredibly annoying, though, and I'm a little taken aback to discover that I'm getting used to them. Although they're really not worth the time it takes them to load, usually; they'd be funnier as still sets of pictures because you would be able to see the damn things. Grr.
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But I think some of what I'm liking about it is the sheer energy and enthusiasm; the speed and noise are too much for me sometimes, but I kind of love the sheer "whee!" of it all. That could be partly because I'm looking at Avengers stuff, of which there is boatloads, but I'm also following a very small fandom, Person of Interest, which on tumblr is active and happy and chatty and welcoming (like, literally: some of them have set up a chat room, and regularly post to welcome new people to join it), and on DW is scattered and hard to find and consists of maybe one post a week somewhere, if you can find it.
So I can totally see why it doesn't work for lots of people, and god knows for months I'd just sort of look at it every few weeks, poke it, and walk away confused about why anyone would want to do this. But it's been really interesting hitting the tipping point of "oh hey, I think I'm using this now. Huh." - pretty much just in the last couple of weeks.
The gifs are truly incredibly annoying, though, and I'm a little taken aback to discover that I'm getting used to them. Although they're really not worth the time it takes them to load, usually; they'd be funnier as still sets of pictures because you would be able to see the damn things. Grr.