Lol, on here, I tend to go by your bookshelves. And one look at your currently reading and the first couple of pages of tbr was enough to know I'll at least be interested in your reviews :)
Tumblr is harder though. Everyone is so damn random over there, you follow someone for their cute kitten posts, and next day find out they are into sherlock/avengers crossover fan art and Downton Abbey cosplaying.
And then booklikes has new signups following 25 strangers until you edit. *sigh* I wish they wouldn't. I can follow from reviews on a book page, by searching blogs for books and topics, from a zillion friends on goodreads posting their booklikes name. I felt bad seeing posts from original booklikes members I was made to follow wondering why on earth all these strange people were suddenly following them or not wanting to be followed by those damn goodreads bullies bringing their threats and drama over to booklikes. I unfollowed immediately; but, that's the one thing I think booklikes has badly done. I wish they'd stop requiring you to follow people on signup; i know it's to give you an interesting dashboard and jumpstart your experience (maybe they should have sent blogged a reminder that new members are assigned people to follow).
Meanwhile over on goodreads the amazon forum moderators with "seed discussions with marketing goals" in their job descriptions are starting or reviving really old suggestion threads -- for things like wanting to see a list of people to follow on goodreads based on similar reading tastes (no author, of course, would ever be able to use that to get targeted marketing for people who like books they think theirs are equivalent to), need more demographics displaying/filtering on book and other search results, need a way to message groups of people at once instead of the anti-spam restrictions currently in place ... Yeah, right, those are top features readers want.
Just like the blog post announcement Otis made a while back raving how the absolutely most requested feature by goodreads members ever was being implemented -- integration with kindle paperwhite (gee, do I believe that knowing goodreads suggestion threads are way older than the new kindle paperwhite or after reading the suggestion threads and seeing things like half stars and private shelves always being started up?).
Boy do I love new features Thursday here on booklikes. I know there are a lot of features we've asked for and don't expect booklikes to implement all at once or to become a goodreads clone. But they sure do listen; it's wonderful to see requested features roll out every Thursday and know it's about member needs versus book sales promotions!
Oh yes...I'd already be happy if you had some possibility to opt out of being randomly followed by new members. I went from basically auto-following back everybody here to waiting if there is any sort of interaction (but then I often forget, that I'm not already following them).
But you're right in most other aspects BL are so much nicer than GR and I love how transparent everything is...you get the news directly on your dashboard and not hidden inside some feedback-thread where only a minority of the users look...
Tumblr is harder though. Everyone is so damn random over there, you follow someone for their cute kitten posts, and next day find out they are into sherlock/avengers crossover fan art and Downton Abbey cosplaying.
And then booklikes has new signups following 25 strangers until you edit. *sigh* I wish they wouldn't. I can follow from reviews on a book page, by searching blogs for books and topics, from a zillion friends on goodreads posting their booklikes name. I felt bad seeing posts from original booklikes members I was made to follow wondering why on earth all these strange people were suddenly following them or not wanting to be followed by those damn goodreads bullies bringing their threats and drama over to booklikes. I unfollowed immediately; but, that's the one thing I think booklikes has badly done. I wish they'd stop requiring you to follow people on signup; i know it's to give you an interesting dashboard and jumpstart your experience (maybe they should have sent blogged a reminder that new members are assigned people to follow).
Meanwhile over on goodreads the amazon forum moderators with "seed discussions with marketing goals" in their job descriptions are starting or reviving really old suggestion threads -- for things like wanting to see a list of people to follow on goodreads based on similar reading tastes (no author, of course, would ever be able to use that to get targeted marketing for people who like books they think theirs are equivalent to), need more demographics displaying/filtering on book and other search results, need a way to message groups of people at once instead of the anti-spam restrictions currently in place ... Yeah, right, those are top features readers want.
Just like the blog post announcement Otis made a while back raving how the absolutely most requested feature by goodreads members ever was being implemented -- integration with kindle paperwhite (gee, do I believe that knowing goodreads suggestion threads are way older than the new kindle paperwhite or after reading the suggestion threads and seeing things like half stars and private shelves always being started up?).
Boy do I love new features Thursday here on booklikes. I know there are a lot of features we've asked for and don't expect booklikes to implement all at once or to become a goodreads clone. But they sure do listen; it's wonderful to see requested features roll out every Thursday and know it's about member needs versus book sales promotions!
But you're right in most other aspects BL are so much nicer than GR and I love how transparent everything is...you get the news directly on your dashboard and not hidden inside some feedback-thread where only a minority of the users look...