something queer going on

When I checked my Facebook this afternoon I was hoping for supportive reactions to having come out as trans, and braced for really ugly ones. The one possibility I hadn't prepared for was . . . no reaction whatsoever. Apart from one person yesterday, no one has commented or reacted to my post at all.

I spent some time puzzling this through. Is being trans so unremarkable now? (Almost certainly not.) Do all my Facebook friends actually have me blocked? (Also seems unlikely.)

The most likely explanation, I have decided, is the really fucking annoying way Facebook arranges the posts on a person's feed--not chronologically, unless you specifically request it (and then it only lasts for one session), but by "most important" i.e. most liked/commented on. This is why there's always plenty of clickbaity crap at the top of one's feed. And it means that people with long Facebook friends lists can easily miss a little post like mine. #facebookishorrible #doesthismeanihavetocomeoutagain?


Speaking of annoying social media, I've started using Tumblr and Twitter again. They're less annoying on a phone, somehow. So if you have a Tumblr or Twitter, feel free to drop me a comment here with your user name on that platform.

I'm gavestonsfrolic on Tumblr and t0bacc04ndb0ys on Twitter, where so far I have never actually tweeted, just followed people. (Paul McDermott has a Twitter! I was extremely surprised.)

I have, reluctantly, gotten a Tumblr. Hannibal is entirely to blame for this; it's the first fandom I've ever been in that seems to happen mostly on Tumblr, and that quickly wore down my resistance. I'm gavestonsfrolic over there; I don't know how much I'll post because DW/LJ is still very much my preferred format. Tumblr does not make intuitive sense to me and the image-heaviness hurts both my (old, slow) computer and my brain.

If you use Tumblr, can you rec me cool stuff, fannish or not? And do let me know what your own Tumblr is (unless it duplicates stuff you already post here, in which case I'd rather read you here).