Actually, I am on Tumblr, and Twitter too, but I mainly use them as feeds for this lj. Tumblr is fascinating and I wish I had time for it, and its capacity for ad hoc conversations and sudden new connections is excellent. I like the platform, its ease and freedom. But to be honest, Tumblr is also deeply frustrating, not the platform but the culture. In their more complex and educated way, people in what would be my Tumblr circle* act out every bit as much as the K-pop Netizens who went to war over T-ara. Not that I have anything in principle against acting out, or think it's incompatible with self-knowledge and insight. In fact, acting out is where people get a lot of their self-knowledge, when it dawns on them where their acts come from and what they mean. The acting-out often is where the thinking begins. And seeing people in action is often as instructive as reading an analytic essay. But in this particular Tumblr World, the acting-out seems fundamentally peevish and unhappy, and comes at the expense of real thought. And it brings out the worst in me when I read it.

I'm being deliberately vague.

Also, I want people to come to me, now. I mean that metaphorically as well as literally. (More vagueness.)

I'm on Facebook too but refuse to friend anybody, except when doing so is the only way to view a particular community or to get on Turntable FM.

http://koganbot.tumblr.com
http://twitter.com/koganbot

And here I was on MySpace, which is in the process of remaking itself into oblivion. I should post some new links from there to here, in case anyone's still looking.

http://www.myspace.com/frankkogan

*I tended to follow by way of my RSS, which I now almost never look at.