Tumblr was founded in 2007 by David Karp. This website was unknown for a couple of years. Months by months, people started creating a Tumblr as they discover it. Started on July 2010, Tumblr scored million unique visitors in the United Sates in July 2011 – up to 218% from July, 2010. It got really popular up until today. It’s a website where it allows you to post text, images, videos, links, quotes and audio to their tumbleblog. Users can follow other users , or you could choose to make your tumbeblog private. In honesty, I think it is just a broader trend going around on the website of Tumblr. This reflects the ideology by the stuff people posts.
Tumblr is a website where you see unique things posted that you rarely ever see in reality. You could also see interesting, or amusing things in your eyes. For example, there’s this one picture of a man planking on top of a whale, and on top of the tallest building. It’s crazy, isn’t it? Sometimes it’s like an advertisement going around. For example, like the upcoming iPhone 5. It’d show how it would see like, and how it works. There’s this one video of a yellow, bird dancing to the song “I Flip My Hair Back & Forth.” Pretty interesting. Also you would see beautiful, flawless, looking girls getting positive comments. You see all types of things on Tumblr.
I think Tumblr resist the dominant ideology of the society. For example, when you see a gorgeous, looking girl getting bunch of notes, and getting reblog with positive comments, it does bring your self-esteem down. Sometimes you really shouldn’t feel this way, because a girl in reality doesn’t look perfect like that. It’s insane, because some girls actually hurt themselves for not being like “those girls.” Girls just start to think negative stuff about themselves, and try their best to look like them. You see, they’re not being themselves for who they actually are.
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This says a lot to me. I used to have a Tumblr and although it didn't personally affect me, I have a friend of mine who was heavily affected by it. She always tried so hard to look a certain way.. like the stereotypical "scene" girl. That was back in the eighth grade, but she still tries to this day. She isn't the girl she used to be, you know? The pressure put on people to be a certain way destroys who they really are, and it hurts. A lot.
I've seen those pictures you're talking about. Girls with flawless skin, amazing hair, and that upper eye mascara. Sometimes tattoos and piercings, or hair dye.... That's cool and all, I think it's beautiful, but only in an artistic sense. I look at those pictures as if they were a painting, an artwork to admire, as opposed to a picture of a human being, because no one looks that way. No one has that flawless skin in real life. We have scars, marks, pimples, uneven skin, all that junk. I've yet to meet someone with perfect skin. Those pictures are most likely uploaded to put on a front. Pshh. As if those girls REALLY look like their photos...
....It's called PHOTOSHOP and I bet they know how to use it well :)
P.s.
that "everyday I'm tumblrin'" title is awesome.
I think Tumblr is an interesting site where you could talk and post pictures about current events and trends in such a popular fashion.
But I've seen some tumblr pages lately and it has evolved into such a different purpose. It has become more of a joke blog where people post funny pictures or gifs of random people and whatnot. I have also heard that you can post pornography and it doesn't even matter. So more or less it's a joke/porn site. And about that "social" part of tumblr...That's better off left to social networking sites like myspace, facebook, bebo, friendster, twitter. All that jazz.
This was very well written! It was sad near the end about girls who feel the need to hurt themselves because they'e not like those that they see on tumblr. It is sadly true but they shouldnt feel the need to do that. They should just be happy in their own skin and now care about if they look or not look like the girls on Tumblr. Great job! :)
personally i think that tumblr is a place where youre allowed to be yourself and express who YOU are.
I agree with your last paragraph when you talked about how there are girls on tumblr who may be flawless even though in reality people arent really that perfect. ^ I think heidy is right about the part when she said tumblr should be a place were you should express who you are. I also like how you talked about how the website shows things that you rarely ever see in reality. nicely written.
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