Megan

I wanted to see what people outside of tumblr think of tumblr, and I find that Urban Dictionary has an interesting insight on tumblr:

Tumblr is fine. It's a blogging site and allows you to interact with people.If you dislike HP (no Twilight lovers, it's just a sucky romance about vampires which they probably haven't even read & apparenty LOFTR is on the same level?), aren't a 90's child( the last generation with sense they say), or aren't perfectly grammatically correct in everything you type, you will be made fun of, judged & stupid.They despise people on FB because they are treated better than them; usually take a screen shot of the status and post it for lulz on someones spelling or just a question they had that may have been stupid.Then stick their FB links in their description. Basically, if you don't have the mindset of a 'misunderstood' teenager, you don't belong. & you also must be a future cat lady, eat nutella & pizza & have no social life. Don't tell anyone about it because they think no one knows. If you're homophobic, leave. Everyone on Tumblr will hate you as the site is predominately gay. J.K Rowling is God, God doesn't exist, Gays are the best, Obsesity is beautiful, Skinny people are bitches, tans are for whores, FB is shit & trolling is life. If you dislike any of this and express it, you will get anon hate telling you to kill yourself & you're stupid & insult you because you placed an unpopular opinion. Tumblr famous people don't talk to you, don't like you, don't follow you back or even attempt to do anything.Only a Tumblr user would look this up and the response would be: U MAD? -_- You know that socially awkward, dramatic, problematic, emo boy/girl at your school? They have a Tumblr.

I find that many people think this about tumblr when they're introduced to it and are attempting to gain followers and make friends and whatnot. Having been a part of tumblr for a while, I completely understand how "outsiders" can view tumblr this way. Anyone who is religious or conservative is a part of the minority, and if you are opinionated or have a social life you're not likely to gain a lot of followers.

It's definitely intriguing to compare and contrast the "insiders" and the "outsiders," especially considering how influential each of these realms can be.

Kastle: Will Facebook become part of our reality?

New Android phones have this new app called Viewdle. On the Android Applications website, it says that "Viewdle is an Android Application that mixes facial recognition, augmented reality and the social network for Facebook.Via the application you can take pictures your friends by filling in their name and Facebook account, the application will then recognize your friends who appear on the screen and display the information relating to their account (name and Facebook news) actually increased." Is this another way of making Facebook more real to us? Is it invading more of our personal privacy and others as well?

Kastle: Are your friends really your friends?

Confirming a friend request without even really knowing who they are can be a big mistake. So why do we accept their friend request? A lot of times we're comparing ourselves to other people on Facebook, thinking to ourselves, "That girl/guy has more friends than me, and more likes than me. I'm not as popular as she/he is." So to go along with the crowd, you accept every friend who wants to be friends with you. Now, although that is really nice of you to want to be so friendly and open, sometimes none of us really think about the consequences of that. The Internet can be a scary and dangerous place to make friends. I was really worried about my cousin when i saw her friend list....3,095 friends. There is no way someone can have that many friends, and she always was complaining about the creepy old guys she had commenting on her pictures. So why didn't she just delete them? Because she liked the attention. Sometimes we want to feel that we're sexy, hot, beautiful, and liked on Facebook. So being friends with EVERYONE can give you that. Lots of likes, comments, etc. But that comes with a price. Drama. And being friends with the wrong kind of person. The kind of person who could a pervert, stalker, bully, or even murderer. Now, not everyone says yes to every friend on Facebook, but a lot of teenagers do it. So be careful who you are friends with. Have you ever accepted a friend request that you regretted later? I want to hear your stories!