social media

i remember the first time i looked at tumblr....i didn't get it. the main distniguishing factor back then (in 2014) was that it had a lot of movement, while facebook and twitter didn't have that. now all the platforms have it. it's normal for pictures to move. 

the other thing was that I didn't get the style of it. i thought it would be informative and serious. i followed tumblrs about teaching and they had these moving images with captions that had nothing to do with teaching...they were a kind of satire. it seemed really busy. in each post, there were multiple frames and in each frame the action would advance a little bit more....it seemed frenetic and it was disorienting. 

but it was like that with all the different websites....i didn't understand twitter, facebook, pinterest, linked in, when I first started using them. probably the one that took me the longest to get was reddit because it seemed to have very definite rules and you needed to know the rules to play.