Anonymous asked: Hello.
You have never heard from me, and probably never will again. But I would like to share something with you that I believe may either open your eyes, or make you very bitter. Whichever way you receive my advice is entirely between you and your esteem.
I am not an avid tumblr user. I do not rush to my computer at every chance I get. I do not blog, blog, blog and reblog until I fall asleep at night. However, I love tumblr dearly. It has been an outlet for me when there was no one humanly (and I mean that quite literally) available for closure.
I will get down to the point I am trying to make; tumblr is not a social network. It is not facebook, or myspace, or twitter. It is, in a sense, much more personal that any of those sites. Sure, my facebook can say who I'm dating, when I was born, what books I like, and how I spend my weekends. But it can't say, with a single blogged picture, how I feel. It can't capture a feeling in a photograph like a post on tumblr can. Tumblr is so much more personal than a social experience, and you are forgetting that.
Your choice to leave is entirely your own. But as a follower of your blog, I must say how disappointed I am at how overreaching your intentions with tumblr have become. You are offended at the realization that your followers do not properly appreciate your blog. Who is to say that they don't? Do you measure the worth of your blog simply by the number of people that talk to you? Certainly that is not what tumblr is meant for. Why do the actions of others govern your decisions? Your tumblr should be an expression of YOU, not a reflection of what others wish to see. You may think that having loyal and chatty and sociable followers is a measure of success, but it's a catch-22; appease only your followers instead of your own feelings and need to express them, and you have lost yourself.
So, what I say to you, is reconsider your decision to leave tumblr. Do not measure it's worth simply by the number of followers that view it and comment constantly. For, if that is what you choose to do, maybe you weren't on Tumblr for the right reasons anyway.
Like I said previously, the reason why I joined tumblr is to meet people. I wanted to meet people and talk to people and get to know people and use people as inspiration for characters and I dont know I guess I also joined tumblr because i wanted to have something like what John and Hank green have. They’ve got tens of thousands of people all giving them feedback constantly, positive or negative. I don’t get anything. I post about 100 original posts each day and I get maybe 5 responses. to me, yes. that’s failing. i was never here for my follower count, but for the people. and since i have joined tumblr, the people i follow have changed. not the number of people; that has always changed depending on what blogs i found recently. but the actual people, the bloggers. they changed. they’ve forgotten me, and it’s time i’ve tried to forget them.
so, yeah, sure. i’m on tumblr for the wrong reason. i’m on the internet for the wrong reason. i’m everywhere for the wrong reason. but it was my reason, and that was good enough. but now that my reason is gone, there’s no reason for me to stay. i realized that today, but it’s always been there. i always say how i don’t fit in. i used to, but then everyone changed. and i didn’t. or i changed and they didn’t. whatever. the point is we’re not the same. my relationship with tumblr is not the same. while i am grateful for the people i have met, and the few that do talk to me, i am going to be leaving. it’s just a matter of when. and that when just happens to me now.