But I can't be Sherlock Holmes

[sovay]

Aside from the fact that it would eat my life, I think the problem with me getting a Tumblr is that I would completely overthink it. I mean, the world is full of beautiful time sinks. I'd have to go through a lot of them if I were going to represent accurately the spectrum of things I find attractive to look at or interesting to think about. I don't have the time for that. I'm engaged in a job search. My free time, what there is of it, will drop spectacularly if I'm successful. The last thing I need is to get stuck into a new social media platform that requires me to spend even more hours looking at things on the internet. I keep away from Twitter for similar reasons: I am an obsessive person and I already stay awake until four in the morning writing about things. Also I do not think I naturally generate witty tags. This train of thought brought to you by the couple of people recently who've asked if I'm on Tumblr and this photobombing blowfish.

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[yhlee.livejournal.com]

I have a Tumblr to which I never post; I just use it to save pretty images for my own reference, and stop in a few times a week or so. But I can see how it could become a bigger timesuck.

[sovay]

I have a Tumblr to which I never post; I just use it to save pretty images for my own reference, and stop in a few times a week or so. But I can see how it could become a bigger timesuck.

I am pretty sure that I couldn't use mine as just an image aggregator. I've been able to manage Facebook only by really not posting anything—I used it to announce my engagement and marriage and that was it—and not checking in daily, but I don't think I could do that with art. I'd run across really awesome things from the ancient world and odd historical articles and lots of pictures of the sea and I'd disappear.