A Jakob Lodwick-Jacob Lodwick Mashup
First, he quotes duplo talking to dalas, who says:
“[Tumblr is] similar to other social networking/blogging type sits but by taking away comments and making it so that no one else can view your friends and followers it sort of takes away the elements of those sorts of sites that cater to people’s vanity and desire to be popular. instead it’s just a neat way to share things you think are interesting with other people.”
And then, in explaining a post with a screenshot of his number of followers (from this):
“I didn’t explain the context properly when I posted that image [ed. note: I added this link]. Some of my friends, such as AA and dalas, have posted their own milestones already, in a gesture that sits somewhere between bragging and opening up (since your # of followers is private). I don’t see anything wrong with this sort of celebration. On social networks, users sometimes accumulate ‘friends’ because they see reciprocal benefit: I get listed in your ‘friends’ area and you get listed in mine. But on Tumblr, followers receieve no such benefit. They are not listed publicly anywhere in relation to me.”
Clearly, Jakob is too smart to let Tumblr get in the way of his vanity and desire to be popular followers’ reciprocal benefit.
