#but yeah I wouldn't touch that social media with a 10-foot poll

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I just joined tumblr… like… yesterday, and it’s surreal how I can just… ask you a question? It’s like if I was just able to walk up to stampylongnose and ask him what his favorite color is… also, good job tumblr not making me feel like I’m not “one of the OGs” and that I should be burned at the stake for it.

Huh, no idea who stampylongnose is, lol. But yeah, you can really talk to anyone and ask anything you like! Doesn't guarantee or necessarily mean you'll always get a good answer back, but the barrier for entry is extremely low!

I believe Twitter was supposed to work under the same principle, where you could say what you like to or about anyone with just an @ mention. But it always felt scarier to me somehow, learning how to use Twitter, so I never spent much time on it, and I'm glad I didn't. Maybe it was not knowing how to form my thoughts into snappy, itty-bitty bite-sized posts that people would want to read (because I try to consider my future readers). But also, talking to celebrities or anyone more popular than you there is so intimidating! Because you see all those big numbers next to their handle!

But here on Tumblr, you don't know anyone's follower counts, only your own! Not unless people take a pic of their numbers to show off to people (more likely to freak out and wonder how / why they're going viral out of nowhere, lol).