Friday, April 9, 2010

Week 11: Dvalidze

While Facebook and Twitter may be the heavyweights when its comes to social networking, the web houses some not as popular yet much more creative social media outlets that often get overlooked. Tumblr happens to be one of them.

Tumblr similar to Facebook houses user accounts and allows them to post texts, photos, audio, video, quotes, etc. The users follow each other and can see all the posts in the feed, however by clicking on the users individual accounts, one can see all of the particular users posts in their customized page (stylistically much more creative and specific to each user unlike the generic Facebook profile page)

The navigation bar is all the way at the top of the page, above the user stream, making it easy to spot. The applications for posting and uploading content are right below the nav bar, so the user can use it immediately upon log in, since those are the most used features. Overall Tumblr is a much more creative and clean cut social networking site. You have an option to view all your followers in a separate page, find all the listings in a search engine similar to google and present all your posts in a more or less professional way that looks a little more sophisticated than an average blog.

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