Tumblr as a Multimedia medium

Tumblr is a microblog where the user of the social media site can build a network, post multimedia and other information that is in the users taste or dealing with their business. Tumblr allows users to follow other users blog, share ideas, multimedia and get ideas from blogs of the same taste. For each post a user creates, they are able to help their audience find posts about certain topics by adding tags, similar to Twitter hashtags. I first got a Tumblr in high school because everyone started to get one and it was seen as this cool new from of social media. I used to love going on Tumblr and looking at all my friends post and what they thought was cool at the time. I thought it was an interesting way to follow your friends online. Tumblr still is a great multimedia medium where people can share their thoughts, interests and other things they like such as music, fashion or videos!

Tumblr is also an option for designers and creative people, because it gives you complete control over the look of your want. Tumblr makes setting up a blog very easy. It also makes it very simple for you to follow other tumbleloggers on the website and to share their content. Tumblr tries to combine the best parts of blogging and micro-blogging in one.

Also, fact that Tumblr has built-in formats for a variety of content types makes it stand out from other blogging and micro-blogging platforms. There are templates for text, photos, videos, audio, quotes, links and chat transcripts. Most themes take advantage of the differences between these post types and implement special formatting for each one. You can also add plain text to most of these post types, and you can add images to your text posts. It’s a quite flexible system.

With all of these aspects, one can easily identify Tumblr as a multimedia medium. Not only is it a instrumental blog site but it also acts as a place where people can communicate thoughts and what they like with each other as well. It has become a new way for people to see what trending around the world in relation to fashion, news, music, and popular videos.


-CM