Finding The Positives

Up until now everything I've been saying about the Tumblr take over has been really negative, and I think that's pretty much reflected by what other Tumblr people are saying. However, with every negative you have to find a positive right, so here is my (very short) list of things that are good about this.

- We now have Marissa Mayer, who I would like to remind everyone was actually poached by Yahoo from Google in the first place, so that's one plus.

- She also brought over a couple of other people from Google so it's not all bad.

- Marissa actually has her own Tumblr and actually has done for nearly 3 years now, so maybe, just maybe she understands the complex inner workings of the site, although her blog needs some serious work done on it before I accept her as a true Tumblr user.

- Everyone is freaking out about ads as well. Well there are ad blockers out there we can use, so it's not going to hugely affect us if we can block them.

But just in case things get really bad, just remember

WE ALWAYS HAVE WORDPRESS!

Dissension Amongst The Minions

Today for the first time in forever on a day off I was enticed out of the den I call my room into the living room after hearing murmurings of mutiny amongst the minions (flatmates), as I had apparently "not been seen in forever" After being made to feel guilty for a good 10 minutes I caved and dutifully carried my laptop into the living room before setting up camp on the sofa so I could be seen to be "sociable". Needless to say when my flatmates ran out to Asda for an hour and came back they were stunned to still find me there, albeit in exactly the same spot, but in my eyes that's progress, and a new record. So after 2 solid hours of human interaction I slunk off and have now holed myself back up in my den where I can now alternately hibernate and blog as I see fit. Talk about student living at its finest