Fifteen Year Old Over Blogs, Leading to An Addiction to Tumblr.

Hello fellow bloggers, I hope today has been wonderful.

At first I was hesitant to start blogging on blogger.com, because I have done it in the past, and in my own eyes failed. Okay, so maybe that sentence was a bit dramatic, but really I'm a blogger, can you tell? I kind of hope not, in my school blogging was always seen a weird, which I completely understand because it's like having a diary online.

I've been through many different blogging sites, starting of course with Myspace, my Myspace was a place where I would say I found poems or songs, but I would really write them myself... I was what I would like to call a closet writer. Slowly I realized, like the rest of the world, that Myspace wasn't the place for my diary. I began writing in notebooks, going through about 3 a month. It came to me that maybe I should jump on this bandwagon and blog. I was an impressionable fifteen year old, and it seemed like a great idea. I jumped on to Wordpress, it was one of the most confusing things I have ever had to do. I blogged on Wordpress for a month, I almost gave up on blogging until my friend Ellie who was older than me told me she blogged on Blogger.

I created my blogger and blogged on it for a pretty long time, taking the past posts I had made and pasting them into blogger. I would write my deepest thoughts, and people began reading. I would blog things I wanted people to see like the boy I liked would read on my blog a poem I had written about him. I was a complete shut in when it came to blogging, it was as I like to say, bad news bears. Slowly everyone would read it from my town, and it got to the point where people I didn’t really know were reading my deepest thoughts. I didn’t really know how to react to it, but I kept blogging. People would put their two cents into everything I wrote, and in a way it made me feel good but also extremely exposed. Wordpress was cool again too, so I jumped back there, posting on both just in case my blog for some reason would go viral, and Wordpress would help that happen.

I was blogged out in 2009, and the next best thing was up, and it was Tumblr. I could rave for days about Tumblr. I believe that every human being should have one. I began tumblring by writing my thoughts on everything. I soon realized that that isn’t how Tumblr works, where most blogs are about being original, Tumblr is the opposite. It is a place where originality is exalted, but reblogging is expected.

A screen shot of my Tumblr Dashboard

On Tumblr I follow 125 people, mostly strangers who just post things that I enjoy. I follow a plethora of cat blogs because I love cats, tattoo blogs, E. E Cummings poetry blogs, everything I want to follow I follow. It's an interesting concept to me to see essentially an RSS feed on a Dashboard like on Tumblr. On Tumblr you can easily post photos, videos, quotes, music, links, pictures, or a conversation. Tumblr is blogging for dummies, and I needed it. I get all of my information from Tumblr. I feel so connected to so many different things through Tumblr, a friend of mine who lives in Egypt talks on the horrors she is facing, another blog The Daily What is where I get all of my news. Honestly, Tumblr is the way to go, if you don't believe me as this cutie with an ukulele.

The best part about Tumblr? I'm going to post this blog up there right now, and I gaurentee a bunch of people will reblog it, it's so much easier to go viral with Tumblr, and in a world where even the plainest of folks can blog, why not let it be viral? I have 75 people following me, what if this post alone gave me 100 more followers? It's a question that I'm sure many others think about daily.