Yahoo is trying to buy tumblr. Reblog if you are against this!
Reblogged from Ramblings of a Geeky Animal Science Student
SHARE TO SAVE TUMBLR!
- Let’s try and get 100k notes
A review by one of the folks sums it up perfectly:
“What worries me about Yahoo! buying Tumblr is how it would choose to incorporate the website into its email and homepage features. One of the reasons why Tumblr is so unique is because it’s a niche market. By adding more users who don’t fit into this niche, it would make it more difficult for communities to develop within Tumblr, and Tumblr would have to change to accommodate these new users. Tumblr as a website is not the kind that you can sign up for in a day and be on your way. It is a website crafted so that you can immediately post but must spend several weeks, sometimes even months, to build a community. With new users who would not be willing to spend time growing a community, Tumblr would have to be changed, which would alienate its current users. Those users have spent time and effort to make Tumblr what it is today, and they are the ones who spend time on the website daily. A user who is checking onto Tumblr because it’s attached to their homepage is not going to be as strong of a user nor as dedicated. By changing the website to suit this new user, you would lose the strong users while building an undedicated usership.
To any website that would think of buying Tumblr, they must understand that it is a website that cannot be changed to make it more user friendly to a casual blogger. I think that many Tumblr users would be less worried about a buy-out if they were promised that their communities and ways of using Tumblr would not be changed. No one is going to mind Yahoo! buying the website and gaining a few extra million dollars per year from the minimal advertising; what we will be upset with is if a company like Yahoo! then changes the website to increase casual users and decrease dedicated users. Yahoo! would gain nothing by losing this “cool” group of bloggers in an age group they so desperately want to reach, so they must cater to these individuals by leaving the website exactly as is.” - houseoftombombadil
As much as is does sound like a load of bullshit for someone to buy Tumblr, it’s a possibility. I Personally think it should stay independent and I hope David Karp keeps a hold of it like his own child. Or we make enough noise to where such major changes (if bought) will not happen. I would hate to see Tumblr turned into an advertising dump.We’re not a ‘hip fad group’ to be marketed to. I hate the fact that’s all we look like to businesses in the end.I doubt Karp will sell (as I said earlier)
But I’m not going to ignore this either because it is important. I love Tumblr and the people on it too much not to share this.
(That said, is Yahoo DOES buy Tumblr and DOESN’T screw it up, I won’t be leaving. If it does screw it up… I’m not going to be happy, but I won’t leave. As long as the site is up I will stay.)
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Reblogged from Beating Writer's Bane
Now that I’m on my summer break, I want to start seriously blogging. I can do feminist entertainment reviews (TV, Movies, Books, Video Games), I can write about the academic research I’m doing (Nordic mythology and and what we can tell about philosophy from it; politics stuff about the election and what happened with the Republicans; Arabic philosophers; universal symbols in mythology), the writing I’ll be doing; or just like everything in general? Would anyone be interested in reading?
att:
Who gives the best hugs?
Moms do of course. Happy Mother’s day, Mom!
I have to disagree. Parents/Significant Others/Whoever matters to you gives the best hugs.
Reblogged from Living Mobile
You’ll take those earrings off before your fight for totally different reasons…
So into utilitarian/defensive decoration.
Where do I go and find these?
Found the source. Now I need money and pierced ears.
Reblogged from Lady Belacqua
im-sherlocked-in-my-mindpalace:
socially-awkward-supervillian:
Fun fact: Cheetahs only attack pray that runs
jesus that is good to know.
Yup, that’s the point you just stay still and let it do whatever the fuck it wants that doesn’t involved you getting eaten.
REALLY FUN FACT for big cats cheetahs are fucking docile as shit
my grandfather ran a cheetah sanctuary in south africa and he’d just lie with them and sleep among them and they’d rub against him and chirp at him they’re big fucking babies
Another Fun Fact: Cheetah’s are incredibly nervous animals. One of the (many) reason’s they’re going extinct is that cheetah’s are so sensitive and nervous, some of them are literally too nervous to breed. Other’s will breed, but stress themselves out so much, they’ll loose their cubs.
So zoo’s with breeding program’s had to figure out how to make Cheetah’s comfortable enough to first of all, get laid and secondly - not spazz themselves into miscarrying.
So what’d they do?
They gave the cheetah’s their very own Service Dogs!
The dogs make them feel safe, protected and secure!Thats fucking adorable as hell
Too cute to NOT reblog. -H
I love big cats so much
Reblogged from The Writers Helpers
My dad now keeps calling me ‘old sport’.
Gatsby
Movie was alright, some stuff taken out and other stuff added in that didn’t need to be. DiCaprio and Mulligan were the best parts but their chemistry was very eh at times. Also the sanatorium bits were completely unneeded, why couldn’t Nick just narrate from time to time or not narriate at all?
