Social Media: Evolving From Long Form To Push Button
In the evolution of social media over the last decade, the trend has been a move from long form content, which has high friction of participation (both on the production and consumption side) to ever lower requirements placed on a user to participate in a conversation.If I were tumblr I’d be so insulted by this article. Pinterest is del.icio.us with pictures. Tumblr is community and expression in a way that is genuinely unique on the internet, at a scale that is completely unmatched. Articles like this are one more reason I have so much disdain for most Silicon Valley trend bloggers.
Pinterest is a bad example. While it certainly is an interesting product, Percolate (well, prior to its pivot) and it’s ilk are far more interesting. Problem is, too few curation apps focus on the power user, and those that do (Storify) push too far in one direction at the cost of more simplified interfaces. Balancing the two is the way to go. Tumblr gets closest to this at the moment. Tumblr should consider figuring out a way to easily tell multi-part stories in posts simply. The issue is not that curation needs to be dumbed down; the issue is that it needs to be fluid.
