This is fascinating

[a_candle_for_sherlock]

It's like...BLOGGING blogging. Tumblr is what happens when every form of social media interaction build a city together. You can explore it forever, find niche shops and wild clubs and cliquish parties, stay an anonymous people-watcher forever or put yourself out there and find best friends for life. The crowds are always shifting; you don't know who you'll run into, who's watching you, who'll jump in on your conversation--you could get lucky or very unlucky. It's an endless metropolis.

This feels more like a college campus. We know who's here, more or less, and who’s in our clubs and classes, and where to find the literary arguments and the theater kids' hangouts, and we're sitting around each others' dorm rooms, talking about our feelings and the things we like. I like it.

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[pagimag]

I love your analogy, but I think this is scary. For someone like me who is more comfortable lurking, tumblr has always flooded me with interesting things without needing too much interaction. Which of course has left me rather on the outskirts of everything.
So this is me forcing myself to interact ;) and hopefully build more relations to all the people I've followed and reblogged but haven't dared to say a word to. Otherwise I guess I would end up like I would on a real life campus, alone in a quiet corner and missing out on all the fun things.

[sanguinity]

fwiw, it's possible to lurk here, and people do. You just have to follow a lot more people to get tumblr-levels of content.

That said, I'm happy to see you saying hi. Hi! :-)

[write_out]

I was on LJ lurking in XF fandom for years and years, so it's totally possible to lurk here! I might be a little more active in Sherlock fandom, but I still do a lot of lurking here. It's a little harder to hide, yes, but you can! :)

[a_candle_for_sherlock]

Aw I’m so glad you’re trying it. Irl i kept to myself a lot in high school, but when I got to college I convinced myself to put myself out there, and I made the best friends and loved the things I got to do. It was so worth it. I hope this ends up being a satisfying experience for you too even if it’s intimidating to begin with! I love actually getting to know fandom connections I’ve only seen floating by on the dash for years.