An education

  • 11: 15 AM
  • ok, here's what i want for chanukkah
  • you have to give me a lesson in tumblr
  • Katherine: yo ask david
  • idk anything
  • me: really!?
  • Katherine: tumblr is for kids
  • and pictures!
  • tumblr is all about pictures
  • i'm text-based
  • 11: 16 AM
  • me: i have a tumblr and i get how to publish but what i don't get is how to follow and just basically know what the fuck IS GOING ON
  • how do you work it?
  • Katherine: it's predicated on the idea that you have a vast amount of free time
  • me: oh, that makes sense
  • Katherine: seriously
  • i can't name any grown ups who use it
  • 11: 17 AM
  • I think it's a way to reach an alternate group of "commenters"
  • me: which is why we're becoming obsolette. that's my point
  • Katherine: ify ou post an excerpt of a story with a large photo
  • and a link
  • people will reblog click etc who wouldn't normally read observer
  • but it's not even worth following other people
  • 11: 18 AM
  • me: not even to find good writers and/or young girls who want to sleep with editors?
  • Katherine: because you'll see who reblogs you, and i'ts not like you have time to kill reblogging w/ witty comment
  • me: jk
  • Katherine: i don't even think there are good writers!
  • except david
  • who admits that tumblr is a bad platform for him but stays on it due to his teen girl following
  • me: oh, really? but choire and balk are all over it. they understand something i don'tl. and i need to know what it is
  • 11: 19 AM
  • Katherine: no they're not1
  • they post like, a photo to it
  • or a link with witty comment
  • and watch their supplicants reblog
  • me: supplicants. right...
  • 11: 20 AM
  • i think i should post this entire chat to tumblr
  • Katherine: NOW YOU GET IT