I’ve used Tumblr for the past couple of years as a way to catalog events in my life. I make a conscious decision every time I upload a photo to the Internet as to whether it’s going to Flickr, Tumblr, or Facebook.
For the past weeks and months I’ve been assessing if there’s any value in posting photos to Tumblr versus Facebook versus Flickr and the conclusion I’ve come to is that I’m both too lazy to make channel decisions and that Tumblr’s incentive mechanisms are completely meaningless to me (reblogs, likes, awkward comment system replies).
I’ve quit blogs before, many times before, but this is different. I will continue to post photos with commentary, I will just do so through my Facebook profile, which you can subscribe to. Nothing is changing, except I’m streamlining my personal media publishing. Being able to publish privately, publically, or to specific lists makes this possible.
I may re-purpose this blog for professional and design-type content, but that is still up in the air. I will not be removing this blog, it will simply sit idly by until the Tumblr servers return to dust.
The other caveat to this decision is that Facebook is not the place I want to share text-based long-form thoughts, for a few reasons: audience, display, digestion options, etc. So I will be bringing a soley text-based journal online shortly. I value writing and typography, so I’m more excited to focus on that rather than randomly cross-posting photos to multiple social channels.
