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Tumblr Is Drinking Wine; MySpace Is Huffing Spray Paint

Posted By Minda Zetlin On July 8, 2011 @ 6:27 am In Blogging and Social Media,Internet and Online Business | No Comments

Why is Tumblr like wine? “A quiet night with a couple of friends, and a couple of their friends. Spilling nostalgic stories, flipping through photo albums, singing favorite songs,” explains the new Internet Vices [1] chart from HappyPlace.

Twitter, on the other hand, resembles cocaine: “Cheap. Short. Fruitless.” YouTube is tequila shots–you do one at a friend’s invitation but wind up having several more than you planned. The reason MySpace resembles sniffing spray paint? “You will be perceived as having the mindset of a middle schooler.”

Oh, and Gmail is like caffeine pills: Makes you more productive but leaves you exhausted and dependent.

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Read more at HappyPlace [1].


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[1] Internet Vices: http://www.happyplace.com/8710/list-of-internet-vices-compares-websites-to-drugs?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

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