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The re-blog, re-tweet, and you.
Recently I’ve been thinking about the idea of re-blogging and re-tweeting. I’m about to get pretty technical, so heads up.
The re-tweet is a fairly new concept, but the re-blog has been around for quite a while. For those unaware, this is the idea of being able to instantly take someone else’s tweet or blog post and with one click, re-blog or re-post it on your blog, obviously crediting the original author of the post. So what does this mean for every group of people for the internet? For the casual non-blogger viewer, it means they are more likely to see trends with certain posts and repetition. For the blogger, it means they can easily and quickly update their blog daily. Finally, for the author, it means they are acknowledged for finding (what usually is) an entertaining or interesting subject for a blog post or tweet.
Originality is something I really appreciate; I really enjoy it when things are original, and I just can’t focus when things aren’t, often thinking back to where that idea first originated, and not what is being presented to me. To me, this is completely lost in the re-blog and re-tweet. All the originality from you’re profile or blog is suddenly lost when you’re constantly re-blogging and re-tweeting.
It may seem weird to make this statement directly after the last: I love the re-blog function. On tumblr or wordpress, who doesn’t love it when you see a truly hilarious or beautiful post that has a thousand re-blogs, it’s great! At the end of the day, what I’m saying is, try to keep things original. Perhaps continuing to re-blog is original for you. If you do (and dont worry I do too), then try to keep it at about half of your posts, convince people that you’re giving them original material that may have happened to you, came up with, made, or just found the other day on some website. This is the generation of sharing new things on the internet, not old things. Make something, find something, and please, tell me about it.
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