Recently the world has seen the rapid ascension of blogging into the vogue.
Many students in Pascack Valley have succumbed to the allure of Tumblr, a blogging website whose community is compromised mostly of teenagers and young adults. Its most salient characteristic is its hipness - the themes for the blogs are all slick and fashionable, the community young, funny, and unafraid to post exactly what it wants to post. There are few, if any, unspoken rules or taboos, and the rules that are written down can't be uniformly enforced because of the burgeoning number of people on the site.
I am kind of loathe to say that I too have been beguiled by Tumblr.
When I first joined, I thought it was fun and funny, but now I think it’s stupid and tawdry and perhaps there are some people who really do need a censor to go over what should and should not be posted.
Something that bothers me the most is that some people seem to act like caricatures of themselves just to break into the upper echelon of Tumblr’s hierarchy, where people’s Tumblarity - which is a number that somehow determines a person’s popularity on the site - is well into the thousands. Many people are overly garrulous and others post things that have seem to have no purpose besides eliciting empathy from others.
It might just be me, but perhaps you shouldn’t post online that you were pregnant and had an abortion at the age of seventeen, that you want to kill yourself and die, that you do hard drugs all the time and no one loves you. I understand that maybe this is the only place you can really get your feelings out, but maybe you should go get professional help rather than telling the internet community who can’t physically help anyone.
I understand that maybe I shouldn’t be mocking people’s nadirs, but there are some things that should probably be kept private and not for 1,733,993,741 people who use the internet to see (http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm).
