An Open Letter to Tumblr’s Staff Part 1

My name is Carrie McClain and my personal tumblr page celebrated it’s fifth birthday, not too long ago. Nowadays to compliment me on my tumblr is a supreme compliment (it happens often), it is a compliment on par with telling me that I have fierce eyebrows (which sadly doesn’t happen enough). In the beginning, I didn’t think much of tumblr—it was just some blog that I barely updated or looked at. As time passed I started logging in more on a whim and I started reblogging more. Then Tumblr became very important to me as it did for many others for it became an extraordinary blogging behemoth social networking site.

  Founded in 2007 but launched back in 2008, by David Karp and Marco Arment, Tumblr would introduce to the world a game changer, a unique website that blogging easier and more accessible with a platform to post just about anything.  Somewhere along the way  it  became the fifth most visited site throughout the U.S. and stole much shine from Facebook by becoming more popular with the 13-25 age group.  People forget  back in 2011, Tumblr was chosen to host President Barack Obama blog and THAT WAS BIG, especially since younger people contributed greatly to his campaigns in both elections he ran in. So it’s no wonder that tumblr users are fifty times likely to go to a political rally, twice more likely to advise other folks on political happenings and current events and-gasp, 108 times more likely to be registered to vote! Holla at your girl. What a lot of people f…