Tumblr versus Reddit, Feed versus Forum

           Feeds have become increasingly popular recently, with social media sites like tumblr, Twitter, and Instagram all using it extensively. People like the feed because it takes no selection. You just pick things before hand to subscribe to, and then when you come back there's always new content scattered around, but easy to go through sequentially. There isn't a lot of following actually, cuz you just look at what's first on the feed and go down. Reddit is much different. With the usage of forums, topics stay organized, but less gets shared. You can't post things to your friend's feeds like you can with Tumblr. You can message people and follow your posts to see what people say, but other than that, things stay in their places. The benefits of this include more directive usage. It's still possible to surf the front page or /r/'s that are just a bunch of gifs and pics, but there are other sites that are better for that anyway. In reddit, the forum, you can actually have topics that are interactive. Things progress. On tumblr, with a feed, things loop in on themselves and spread from their sources, but they have to be small packets, but are also able to be more socially-aimed that reddit's forums.

  Oddly, however, they both have the same number of letters.

tumblr.com, reddit.com

–RIIBFEED