Tumblr
The Social Media
What Is It?
Tumblr is a social media site where the user can create blogs and post text, multimedia and links on their blog. The user can also view and follow others' blogs.
Pros and Cons
Pros
- Users can make their blogs private
- Users can block other users
- If a user searches terms like "depression", "anxiety" and "suicide" Tumblr brings up resources like the National Suicide Lifeline
- Tumblr is easy to use
- It can be used to advertise businesses
Cons
- Tumblr has a young community (over 50% teenagers)
- Self-harm/suicidal content
- Adult content
- Users can't self-host their blogs, so if tumblr goes down, user's blog goes down too
- Users cannot delete posts after they hit submit