What I particularly like about Tumblr -- just like Instagram, and unlike Twitter or Facebook -- is that it's usually pretty drama-free. Tumblr can be very artistic and self-expressive (also very pornographic), but it's usually a one-way street, where people just "like" stuff and move on.
So when I received a real message from one of my Tumblr connections today, I was jolted back to real life and how different it is from social media.
It was about this column in today's Newark Star-Ledger by Mike Di Ionno: "During Murder Hearing, Father of Victim Counts Blessings."
It's a heart-breaking story. You should read it. My Tumblr connection is a real-life friend of the Tevlins, the family of the murder victim.
All this has nothing to do with social media's tidy and vacant proclamations of "thoughts and prayers." This is real life, so messy and complicated... and often so sad and yet hopeful.
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