Well, that's for sure now, since the beginning of September, there is more to say that Facebook Fall 2010 is not the same as for Fall 2009 People continue to evolve in the way they behave or exchange.
There are three and a half years, maybe four, when I got on FB, I've never chatted or dredged on the net of my life and I was not at all interested in doing so, unless follow the example of Ed White and finish my life in Silverdaddies . FB I liked instantly, like a thunderbolt, because FB has finally decided to turn the page of sites ass when nobody shows up with his real name, his true identity. For me, it was finally the answer to everything that annoyed me on the Internet, these idiots who have nicknames that do not have the courage to say what they think about blogs and signed "Anonymous" with ease (sometimes for political purposes and more, large loose). Everyone has described it in great length, I will not put myself, but I want say that for me, this new franchise was fundamental. I want to connect with real people, and I do not want to dredge an alias or even respond to a comment on my blog if I see someone who is not bothered identify themselves.
Initially, it was magical. There was still that feeling of discovering a burgeoning club, full of daily surprises. It was much more international, we could see a very transparent way friends of people we met (the display was simple, with icons for larger images) and especially this reverie meeting brought you far, Indonesia, Africa, the Arab Emirates, on every continent what. At gay, I've never seen FB in terms of drag, even if people are constantly era (something that has disappeared). I saw FB as a showcase of the world, with people of a politeness so amazing, fueled by a universal communication. It was as if people were more polite because they met for the first time.
we know, it exploded over the past two years with a whole new culture fed by 500 million people, no less, and then through Twitter, and now Tumblr. There was also this feeling warm at the beginning of craigslist and then it became, again, the big discount store and any body in particular. Today in New York, you can fuck with a straight 25 years for $ 30, which is changing a lot even in relationships between gay and straight, but we'll see another day. Facebook today is a story of promotion. When you have 4000 friends, we received a number of proposals for events so broad that it can be considered, in a sociocultural, rather typical of what is happening, really, in the area where you are.
FB is a tool for promotion, everyone knows, that's why there are many people who leave FB as well. And everyone has a reason to leave FB. First there were those who made the bullshit to be there in 2007, the first what, and who returned in late 2008 when they finally realized that no, we will not be able to do without FB, how dumb I am sometimes (nameless in Yagg). There are those who left FB to return six months later with new rules. There is also the one who left FB but became depressed as when you stop smoking. And there are all those who arrive today, which found that people lost for 20 years and was believed dead.
What makes me say that FB is changing is when I see how the holiday periods to break serve. And at each end of the holidays, FB is not the same. Let me explain. During the summer 2010, I felt a lot of people dropped out, as do also the webzines besides, it's normal. Last summer, it was noted that several people had been on FB so much during the school year (September 2009-June 2010) served as their vacation to disconnect a bit, spending time with family, traveling, reading and even, perhaps, try to be less at the computer.
And when they came back to the beginning of September, they were not the same. They had made resolutions. Despite the social unrest (strikes, you remember?) And business (Woerth, anyone?), FB answered less. I looked at what people said on their wall and I saw that many did not want to intervene. And then, after a year or two on FB, some were sintered with friends, or they wanted to step back and wondered where they FB went. The film would be released soon. We could no longer lie and continue to believe that it was part of a small club. The machine we had swallowed a long time. I always
FB, I'm not ready to go, it's a necessary tool for me, especially living in the countryside and did not like talking on the phone. But I'm a little sad not to find this communication from 2007-2008, before the crazy land problem and begin to make you shit about what you say when you, you will never insult them on their wall (again, nameless).
From Tumbr or I die!
Tumblr beside it as if we rediscovered the political poetry of FB from the beginning. People behave with the same courtesy that when FB old school. For Tumblr is still in the preliminary stages of the big bang, when people feel they belong to a network share when the world still does not look what you do.
Tumblr is a marvel. I was born for this stuff, I think. When we admire a like me, a little obsessed by the images has always been a newspaper is iconographic ever produce sex, art, inspiration. I am totally amazed by what gays publish on Tumblr. If I had this vision of what they like, if I did not have tangible proof of their passions, I am really in mockery, but there they impress me. Gays have never been more product images that describe and define them. Never. Before, you had to go by gay artists to have a vision of what we liked here. Today is gay lambda that will make the best photo of all. The way in which gays are seen on Tumblr (excluding trade ass, or how they are seen on sites dating) is absolutely new. Of course, there are plenty of sex and above that, and we see everything from the sweetest guy bareback / nunuche and full of kinky movies. But there's this whole generation of kids age 20 who have developed an aesthetic concept male with a very precise angle of male beauty.
ago Memorabilia gay blogs with thousands of archival images of men and journals of the 50s and 60s and even before. Lots of images of Playgirl magazines and porno '70s. There is of course Androphilia who runs a carpet ever images that all have an unspoken ideological purpose: either to deal with aspects of the art little known objects and oriental sculptures or modern design, mixed with images of unusual and porn pictures of men simply beautiful. And all this from a perspective of absolute kindness, not like those crazy Americans who are still forced to crush us with their erudition.
One of my favorites is that of a kid of 21, Clover Dale , gay and all, who constantly post pictures as I resume. He has specialized in skateboarding and everything that revolves around: skaters jumping at the skate park, talking, trying to smoke, then what the life of skater. With occasional pictures of really ass well chosen and portraits of men. All with a taste for a surefire kid of 21, which has an accuracy consistently determined, but not unpleasant either.
ago Rome is Burning, one of my favorite Tumblr All Blacks, with a myriad of guys naked in front of their glass bathroom that take pictures with their iPhone and have dicks so beautiful and tattoos of crazy that cover all their pecs. There is also The Adventures of An Endangered Mind , another black throwing invectives at everyone funny while having more photos of Blacks great, not the kind of photography licked, Instead of real guys, which is always exciting.
course, there Sissydude , very hipster in sexual choice, for gay men aged 30 and over, funny, funky, bearded, with a twist or natural fashion. Garden
There is a mix of photos between the guys and natural gardening and country living. There are
Tumblr who have no particular angle as Ilikesomuch , Massice Marco , Pollafilia twins who are just looks at me because we simply love the same guys. Hard & Ruff, is the same, and more hard. In the wild type
independent, there Szakall , which always puts j'ame images, a kind of Lost And Found on art, beards and bikes (in that order) /.
ago Lovepeaceislam the Tumbr a guy who does that post the best pictures of Islamic art, as if to show people that religion produces masterpieces and stop this madness with anti Islam.
My idea is not to run after the new Tumblr but rather to evolve slowly, naturally. If I see that some have reblogué one of my pictures, I'll see what they do and if I like it, I am. Tumblr is the most beautiful object the modern image. Flickr there is still much richer (and Tumblr feed lots), but the pictures are too small and not easy to use, it's normal, otherwise everyone would divert the vast image bank . But Tumblr is much more poetic, it pecks at the images of others and we take what we truly love. This image has held a rhythm and fluidity, as when Androphilia is a series of vases with oriental designs sublime or when he posts a series on Pakistani men, wow, that's something that changes what we shows on this country on TV. Tumblr also the basis for cut-up and the association of ideas between the images. References are created in sequence or collide, it's sticking in the sense most artistic.
Tumblr is the most striking symbol of the popularity of the image in our time. Youtube is the image and photography. With their laptops, people create images unimaginable 20 years ago. For example, there is a big thing at this time trend among gay men, these are pictures of gay in nature. Before, the portraits of gay men were mostly urban. The guys 20 or 30 years are being imposed photos that are all variations of walks in nature. Kind, it is 4 or 5 friends to walk, and there is always an image of a face in a forest, or the sun in the background, or smoking a cigarette on a path to the sea C is absolutely new! And they are mostly cool guys, bearded No sweat, quiet, nice, nice. Far from the usual picture gay making the mouth to look sexier. These gays are now expanding in the proper sense of decorum gay picture and the media have still not got it this huge opportunity revolution in gay iconography. These photos are free and a hundred times better describe the evolution visual and psychological aspects of homosexuality as modern images that shit bitch models we worked on Photoshop bous tries to swallow, force, such as geese.
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