January 3, 2011
I’ve been thinking a lot recently that among the best choices I’ve ever made was keeping Tumblr as my “safe space.” (I’m from California, I’m allowed to say that.) The downside is that I’m pretty much limited to pictures of Cat and plants and, like, rocks. The upside is that my privacy and my mental health and my politics and my quiet time to work become my serious real-world responsibility. This pro-cat, pro-privacy Tumblr policy results in: not worrying about what work I have to do or how many emails I owe; zero domestic strife; no blog flameouts with acquaintances (no matter how right I am! shakes fist); no concerned emails from family; no spilled secrets and very little bragging; few retractions; hardly any regrets. Also it makes me look like a simpleton, which is a good technique to always get people to underestimate you. Also Cat likes it. He’s still a slave to the attention economy though! That being said, there’s no right and wrong way to do this. I’ve done it all ways. I basically liveblogged my divorce eleven years ago. In wild detail! I can only think what then-me would have made of him just finally getting out of federal prison. Oh whoops! Maybe I need a secret Tumblr. Too bad some jerk’s sitting on overshare dot tumblr dot com. How could you own that and not be happily oversharing?

I’ve been thinking a lot recently that among the best choices I’ve ever made was keeping Tumblr as my “safe space.” (I’m from California, I’m allowed to say that.) The downside is that I’m pretty much limited to pictures of Cat and plants and, like, rocks. The upside is that my privacy and my mental health and my politics and my quiet time to work become my serious real-world responsibility. This pro-cat, pro-privacy Tumblr policy results in: not worrying about what work I have to do or how many emails I owe; zero domestic strife; no blog flameouts with acquaintances (no matter how right I am! shakes fist); no concerned emails from family; no spilled secrets and very little bragging; few retractions; hardly any regrets.

Also it makes me look like a simpleton, which is a good technique to always get people to underestimate you.

Also Cat likes it. He’s still a slave to the attention economy though!

That being said, there’s no right and wrong way to do this. I’ve done it all ways. I basically liveblogged my divorce eleven years ago. In wild detail! I can only think what then-me would have made of him just finally getting out of federal prison. Oh whoops! Maybe I need a secret Tumblr. Too bad some jerk’s sitting on overshare dot tumblr dot com. How could you own that and not be happily oversharing?



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  3. justsayjolie said: Oh you tease. MORE I WANT MORE MORE MORE.
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  5. bythepeople said: You give me hope. (Overshare?)
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