To tumblr or not to tumblr? I am asking myself this question right now. This is based on my views of how I want myself, my blog, and my shop to be seen. I want to be associated with a certain standard of ethics. I believe that you can be sexy with all your clothes on. There is a time and place for everything.

Since I started this blog, I have used tumblr as a form or advertisement. I use it to post links to my new post, links to new shop items, etc. The results have done their work–I have received a good number of new readers from the site, but I have increasingly been questioning if I should continue posting on tumblr….

The reason for this is, the type of pictures that are sitting next to my own when I am being reblogged. I came alert to this when I started viewing the people’s tumblr pages who were reblogging me (entirely out of curiosity). Page after page was full of images of curvy girls with their vaginas and breasts hanging out–and not for artistic purposes, they mainly looked like porn (to put it bluntly).

This is something I have been noticing for weeks. I really don’t want my pictures, which I put the utmost love and thought into, being posted next to raunchy pictures. This goes against everything I am trying to do and the image I am trying to build for myself.

Added to this, it is sad that so many plus size/curvy girls think so little of themselves to pose like this. It gives the view that if you are plus size you have to be raunchy and trashy to be sexy. This is way from true, and I hate that girls out there are personifying this. I wish that these girls would learn to love themselves instead of posting these pictures.

Granted, a lot of people posting on tumblr are genuinely doing a real blog or posting pictures that actually mean something to them.

Maybe I’m just a big prude….?

So, my question is: “is it worth it?” I know that once you put your pictures and information out there, you give up control, but is my posting on tumblr adding to this? Should I just ignore  it? Try blocking them? Just forget about it? Tell myself, “who care?!”?

Anyone else out there have an opinion on this?

To tumblr or not to tumblr, that is the question...