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To make a simple analogy: If blogs are journals, tumblelogs are scrapbooks.

You can also look at tumblelogs as slightly more structured blogs that make it easier, faster, and more fun to post and share stuff you find or create.

It's totally different. That's why we built it, and why we love it so much.

Blogs are great, but they can be a lot of work. And they're really built to handle longer-form text posts. Tumblelogs, on the other hand, let you easily and quickly post and share anything you find or create.

Tumblr is free, and we're keeping it that way.

In the future, we may offer additional "advanced" features for a fee. But basic service will always be available 100% free and feature-packed.

A Group is a tumblelog with the special ability to invite others to post. Groups can be public or private.

Private groups are the perfect way to share things with a group of people. Just name your group, and invite friends, family, or colleagues to join. Once they join, they can invite people too.

Public groups are full-featured tumblelogs with the ability to invite others to post. Once invited, members share full control.

The "Followers" pane on your Dashboard displays users who are following your tumblelog.

Tumblr is our pride-and-joy, and we work diligently to make sure service is stable and reliable. However, it's impossible for us to guarantee total reliability. If you have absolutely any trouble with Tumblr, please contact us immediately at support@tumblr.com

When a new feed is added to Tumblr, its most recent post will be imported, followed by any posts added from that point forward.

The time between updates can vary greatly depending on the service. We try to crawl feeds once every hour, but we do respect each feed's "Time To Live" (TTL) declaration which may affect the update interval.

You can close your account at any time on the Delete Account page.