January 10, 2006

  • Blogging

    I read in the newspaper yesterday an article in the USA today about blogging.  They were talking about MySpace.  They mentioned in the article Xanga and Facebook.  They were talking about how popular these sites are becoming.  They are talking about you and me.  More and more attention is given to these personal journals.  I had never heard of a blog until my brother in law set mine up about one year ago.


    Most people don’t know what to make of it.  I have heard that polls show that half of America has still never heard of a blog.  I tried to set up a blog with MySpace one day.  I couldn’t figure out how to do it.  So I signed up and never really used it.  I am sort of slow to learn stuff on the computer so I probably needed someone to show me how it worked.  I don’t even remember my name on the site anymore.


    I was trying to figure out how to make friends.  I realized on MySpace there appeared to be a greater emphasis on pictures.  I wanted to find something like a blogring to find people.  I finally gave up after about 5 minutes.


    I know all these people that have all these different blogs.  I am not sure how they keep up.  I know people who have a LiveJournal account.  I pretty much just stayed here because I had all the friends I needed and it didn’t make sense to try to maintain more than one site.


    Today I would like to discuss the issue of the different types of blogs and communication tools.  I want us to look at the advantages of Xanga, LiveJournal, MySpace and some of the others you are familiar with also. 


    Why do you use a xanga blog as opposed to another blog?


     

Comments (165)

  • I find it easier to blog on xanga..it’s more user friendly as opposed to myspace. I tried myspace for a while but it seemed like a meat market. I’ve never tried LiveJournal or any other blogging site. I stay true to Xanga. Am I the first to comment? wow

  • I think its the easiest. I, too, tried MySpace, and hated the way it worked. Also, the “blog” function was pretty difficult to use, and never read by anyone. I wanted a place where I could write and read. Facebook is the same way but a little worse. I detest facebook.

    Yay for Xanga!

  • well, the main reason that I use Xanga is that my friends are on it…both my high school and college friends.  So this is a good way to stay in touch with those people who are so far away, and it is a way to meet new people who are closer to me than I think.  I also like the content of this blog more than other blog sites.

  • Yeah, xanga and blogger are more committed to actual content than pictures…and xanga has a better community that blogger/blogspot I think.

    2nd?

  • When I started blogging (about 3 years ago) there wasn’t much else available. I just stuck with what worked.

  • Omigudness!
    Sixth!!

  • I was on dead journal for a long time but the thing is.  It was more of a personal journal and I didn’t know about how people can connect from the journals.  One day I saw someone commented me.  I was so surprised that anyone even read it.  I didn’t know about these blogring things.  Well I gave up the deadjournal and came to xanga because other people in my family were using xanga so I switched. 

  • Xanga was just the first one I had heard of…someone had told me about having something like an online diary for others to read (or not) and since i used to keep a diary all the time, I was very interested. Now Of course, I use Xanga more for entertainment and social communication…but I still like to give others an insight into my life…

    Xanga is much more easier to use than Myspace (which I recently got into) and people do read the blogs more on Xanga…

  • I have a myspace as well only because some of my friends refuse to get a xanga!!!

    I usually end up posting the same things on each site.

    I also have an account on blogger.com but i dont let any friends see it. Its for me only…

  • i like Xanga’s interface. A lot of my friends are on Xanga too. I like to protected posts. We keep in touch that way often. Xanga has a good vehicle for setting up “community” on the blogspace.

  • HAHAHA

    when I was typing my comment, there were only 2 comments above me!!!

    now look!!!

    wow

  • I don’t use xanga anymore for much or any other blog. I do like MySpace though, only because most the people I know off line are on it.

    ;)

  • It was the first one I knew about, and now it’s really too late to change.  I like the concept of blogrings.

  • I actually blog in multiple places. I find the aesthetics of individual’s site as Myspace to often me more appealing, but the advertisements when surfing around there are vulgar. Xanga was simply the first blog I was exposed to… I originally joined so I could leave comments, and then I was hooked. I also use blogspot, which I consider to be the best pure blogging site out there right now… allowing rss or atom feeds without unnecessary clutter. I tend to copy my xanga posts to my myspace, but my blogspot is often where I put more serious material, though recently I have taken my xanga bloggin much more seriously.

  • i use xanga and myspace…at first myspace was harder to use but they have more features than xanga and once you figure it out you can waste more time on myspace than xanga! if you can believe that…if you want help with myspace i’ll help ya as much as i can bc it really is a neat site…and i just copy and paste my blogs to each other…i usually do xanga first

    the only reason i got a myspace was to keep in touch with people that didn’t have xanga…so then you get addicted to it bc you can play games from there too…its fun…

    Rachel

  • i only xanga and yes, its hard to discribe your (my) site; its my diary, i love it and the peeps i hang with on here.

  • Okay, anyways. Enough of my foolishness … it’s just so much fun …

    I use a xanga site ‘as opposed’ to other sites for the following reasons:
    A.) MySpace is more about pictures, as you said, and not very much about writing.
    B.) You can be pretty lonely on LiveJournal, if people don’t comment you, and the way your blog is posted makes you literally look like one among thousands.
    C.) Because xanga is more focused on writing, friendships (blogrings for that), and long-term relationships. You can comment on someone’s site and expect them to comment back (usually). You get to have a picture, a profile, a post each day for your ‘daily ramblings’ and you have Featured blogs which lets you see other people who have managed to become popular.

    I think that is xanga’s main thing that they have going for them is the fact that you get to meet people and get to make friends. Live Journal and MySpace just don’t give you that sense of kinship.
    God bless,
    Shohna

  • I have Livejournal, Myspace, Xanga, and my-diary. Xanga is by far my favorite, even though I had Livejournal and my-diary first. It’s easier to use, easier to meet people, the site looks better, and above all, it has Dan. lol. I have about 30,000,000 Xangas for different purposes and I could just hug them all.

  • Simple.

    More whores on Xanga.

  • cuz my friends have xanga. =) and it is a way for me to keep in touch with them.

  • my friends all have xangas

  • I use Xanga and MySpace.  I come to Xanga more to read about people’s lives.  A lot of people on MySpace just put glittery things on their profile and never write OR read anything.  It was harder to blog there, too.   However, I DO like the MySpace group feature (it’s more like a message board).  I check those, plus I like that you can email someone on MySpace.  (Not for any reason other than sometimes you get a conversation going with someone and I feel like an idiot leaving 4 or 5 comments in a row on their Xanga.  LOL!)  I plan to keep both accounts, but I’ll mainly update my blog here on Xanga and go to the groups at MySpace. 

  • It’s solely a blog, where as myspace is, as you said, about pictures and hooking up.

  • To me, MySpace is more like singles group…the hook up place.  Well, I dont’ need a hook up unless it’s coming from my husband.  I like Xanga, I feel that the friendships I have made are solid and true, regardless that they started via the net.  I’ve had actually meet in person friendships last a shorter time then the ones I’ve made here.

  • Xanga is definitely the one for me, and perhaps occassional Blogger. 

  • My cousin introduced my to Xanga and that’s the only reason really

  • My suitemate set me up with it. I tried the others and couldn’t figure them out, plus it seems that I didn’t “know” people on it. I already knew some people with xangas (my suitemate) so I liked reading hers and she commented on mine. It worked

  • I heard about Xanga from my teenage daughter. At first I thought it was all teens and younger people, then I found the over 40 blogrings.

  • It’s easy to update.

  • I like xanga for the community and the emphasis on the actual blog. Myspace is more oriented around people’s profile, or their pictures. I also use facebook, but would not consider it a blog, there is no “journal”-type space, only space for pictures and a profile, as well as community events. facebook is oriented around “keeping in touch with people i’ve known” My favorite blogging site, I think, is blogger.com (google) but there is no community there. All of my friends have a xanga, which I think is the strongest reason for me having one as well.

  • A friend got me started on Xanga and here I am. (My dh claims Blog stands for Baloney, Lettuce, Onion and Garlic Sandwich LOL)

    I do have two at blogspot, I had to register to comment on friend’s blogs there so I have an account there. I also have one at homeschoolblogger…that is pretty much just homeschool stuff.

    Now for the keeping up…copying and pasting is not a bad thing. My blogs aren’t all updated every day, and I do copy and paste a lot.

    (I’m trying the “comment more, get more comments” idea…we’ll see how it goes……so far it’s a dud, but I’ve only just started yesterday)

  • I used Livejournal for a while and tried to get my friends into it. They found out about Xanga and liked it better. Its ok, i do too. Its the best one. Livejournal is plain, myspace it complicated, for facebook you HAVE to be a college student…..

  • I started out blogging on LiveJournal,  but I enoy Xanga more because there is a lot more feedback/comments. :)

  • RYC: I’m serious, I don’t think I’ve EVER slept like that…wouldn’t mind doing it again either

  • enoy = enjoy  Grrrr, I even spell checked first…must have bumped the backspace key. :Þ

  • my kids use xanga, so i created an account to check on theirs.

    And when you blog about your personal life, either you’re OUT in the OPEN or you somehow protect your identity. Or you seal yourself in a little closet with your closest friends. Hmmmmmm.

  • I can’t get on myspace or facebook at work, so xanga it is! Plus, a lot more of my friends were on xanga when I first got it than myspace, and facebook wasn’t available at our school then. 

  • I have a myspace but I dont blog on there. its stupid. Its such a high school popularity contest and I never liked the popular kids anyway..

  • I use Xanga for various reasons- It seems to be the easiest to use, I have friends on Xanga, and Xanga seems to have a greater emphasis on writing, and good will as opposed to pictures and such.

  • i have both xanga and facebook. xanga came first, facebook came much later at the pressure of friends (“hey, when are you going to get a facebook?”). i also had a myspace, but it just wasn’t what i was looking for. xanga is much easier to get around and it’s a little more “down to earth,” if that makes any sense. i’m also a writer, so the whole blogging thing just does it for me. it depends on what you’re looking for, i guess: my best friend doesn’t like to write much, so he prefers facebook. i think people are a little more “real” here on xanga, though. my two bits.

  • As shown in http://www.phpbbforfree.com/forums/eminemsrevengea-about219.html *Facebook* CAN be a dangerous place if you’re planning to be a yuppie

    i first got into blogging years ago when i read an article in the paper and googled it and joined the first blogging community i saw…they kicked me out in a month, and then i came to Xanga  The uptight yentas HERE tried to kick me out too as i checked the parameters of WHAT is allowable (in my ER incarnation) and after i saw that Xanga is like the Sirius of blogging, i no longer felt the need to be always outragious…although today’s post shows that IF you fuck with me i’m STILL street

    i’m probably MORE computer illiterate than you, which is why i got premium  Xanga allows you to look cool without knowing HTML, and it’s a lot like that site linked up top—ANYTHANG goes

    Alas, Xangans are the cheapest suckers in the universe  MY whole reason for blogging was to build an audience for http://eminemsrevenge.com which i KNOW is one of the literary equivalent of “Electric Ladyland” and “Blonde on Blonde,” but the Xanga sales are atrocious…and i now wish i didn’t include Xanga in the dedication, but Xanga WAS instrumental in my creating quite a few scenes in the book

  • Xanga was my first and it’s easy.  I’ve looked on MySpace, but I just don’t want to deal with setting up another one and keeping it up.  Why bother?  Those people can come here to read if they really want to.  Besides, I got premium and I’m going to use it, goshdurn it!

  • Xanga is more user-friendly and seems to have more options that the others. I have more friends that use Xanga and the people I meet here are more genuine and real. Xanga also has a special place in my heart because I met my fiancee on here.

    I don’t support MySpace because as it is mentioned several times above, it’s mostly for people looking to hook up. I tried it for a while and  not only was it difficult to use but the people I met were crude and fake. I didn’t like it one bit.

  • I have a site on all of those other site but xanga is my favorite of them all.

    I’m not to sure why. I suppose it is the friends I have made on here.

    Amanda

  • I will make a facebook when I got to college.

    I heard that is a great site.

    Amanda

  • most of my friends have their own xangas, so why not stay here?

  • I started using xanga to keep up on what the kids were doing, then I found a few sites on my own and made some xanga friends.  Myspace looks more like a teen/young adult meat market with pictures.  I just want to post my views and rants.

  • I use xanga more often in opposed to my MySpace because xanga is just plain and simply easier to use. It was very easy for me to get my site up and running, where as MySpace, I need help from a friend to show me around. I also like it more because it’s just your blog and that’s the sole reason for having a SN at all. MySpace seems to be more for general socializing, online dating, etc. Xanga isn’t like that. which is why I’m allowed to use it.

    GO XANGA!!!!

  • Because I am satisfied with xanga.  It seems the people I have heard (face to face) our not on xanga.  Maybe, that’s good (I like my aninimity).

  • My Space is more for teens I think, they just post a lot of pictures and say hi to each other, Xanga is my favorite, it is easy and easy to meet new people. Face Book is for college kids ( I wish I could access my daughters but I can’t. That is the college vesion of My Space.

  • Myspace to me is a popularity contest. I quit using mine when i was dating awhile back, and i have seen no use for it other than meeting people with similar ideals… but just when it comes to friends and all that. I dont take myspace seriously.

    Xanga however… I take it seriously. Ive spent 4 years on xanga. I love it here. the people are kind, and not concieted like the other sites.

    One of my best friends is like me with what i speak. I met her on xanga. I trusted the world with her, and youll never see me do that with someone off myspace.

    Besides, myspace is great for gossip. Not for being serious or flowing thoughts onto the digital notepad.

    -tommy

  • xanga has a much greater sense of community. the focus is mostly on content. the accessibility of sites through a site on xanga is much greater than on other bloggers.

    Livejournal is the next best. It has a much better comment system. It notifies you of responses, and organizes comments in a forum tree-like fashion. It is much easier to have a conversation without conversing with everyone at once. Long comment lists are much easier to sort through.

  • Honestly, xanga was the first one I tried.  I had a friend who was on it, and I started blogging too.  Then I started a second xanga where I was open about myself and for a long time it was a total secret.  Now I don’t care who knows the real me.

    Anyway, my friend LUVGSUS was on myspace and was not having very much fun.  I got her on xanga and now she’s an addict!  She’s become one of these people who changes her layout every other day.  She just started her own blogring the other day.  My baby’s growing up so fast!! *tear* 

  • Between xanga and myspace, which are the two I’m familiar with, myspace is technically superior in almost every way, with a more comprehensive interface, a thriving independent music community, and so on. However, as you said, the emphasis tends to be more on pictures and networking, rather than actually reading the blogs, which are for the most part ignored. That’s why I go with both rather than one or the other.

  • Xanga was the first one I heard of. But then again, this is my…5th site on xanga, hoping to stick with it for a while. I also have livejournal and myspace, I don’t use the myspace at all really, and I like lj for the way it sets things up and it’s easier to customize if I want to. But xanga has been primary.

  • xanga is by far the easier to use. there are alot of creepy people on myspace and feels like a meat market. i enjoy facebook because its a way to see what old friends are up to.

  • MySpace is too confusing

  • I use Xanga because my wife had an account. She’d leave the window open on the computer sometimes and I got addicted to reading some of the sites she subscribed to. Reading those posts eveyday got me inspired to write my own. I honestly didn’t know there were other options out there at the time.

  • All of my friends are on Xanga.  I don’t have time to do a whole bunch of sites either.

  • Live Journal is a place for serious bloggers. I mean, most of the bloggers are geeks,nerds and other specialist. Myspace is a place for teenagers. In xanga everybody have their place. Xanga is unique because of its features and the way it make people feel closer to each other. Xanga’s comment system is the best feature. Not to forget that classic HTML editor to make your entries beautiful. I love my xanga

  • I started to use it because of my friend, that why we can keep in touch.

  • The only other one I have tried was myspace and I did the same thing as you did. Oh wait, there is something called yahoo360 but I thought that was dumb too. I think that Xanga has been the most user friendly.

  • It doesn’t take as long to load as all the other pages.
    ’tisn’t as confusing as Myspace, hi5 or Tagworld.
    Easy to set up and read.
    ((hugs Xanga))

  • my friends are here.

  • It’s the easiest to use. Myspace doesn’t do much for me because I like to write and read other’s writing, and all to there is go around and look at pictures.

    -Hil

  • My family uses Xanga.

  • i was just introduced to xanga first by a friend last july… didnt hear about myspace till sometime after xanga… nor facebook till a couple months ago… (which i think is wack since i cant sign up for it without a college e-mail address) i heard of livejournal years ago cause my friend is in it, but never bothered with it… and started a fark a while back, but lost track of it as time went by… and i dont like myspace that much, so i havent gotten into it… and one blog for me is definitely enough…

    i actually read this article you speak of… though i read it in business week around five weeks ago… then again like a couple weeks ago in some news source… so apparently this article is making its way through all the news sources…

    oh, i probably stuck with xanga cause its the first and well, its rather user friendly to me…

  • My daughter (12 at that time) was using xanga, so I started reading her …. then found my own group.

  • I like xanga so much better than Myspace because it is so simple… a friend got me started and it is my escape from boredom at work :D

  • I use both Xanga and Myspace. :P

  • it’s whatt I started with.  my sister had a xanga, it seemed like all my friends had xangas (this was in middle school) finally I broke down and made on myself.  After I got into, I just got used to the way xanga works.  Like you said, I have all the friends I need on xanga.  I tried myspace but gave up when I realized the owner friended me.  I didn’t like being friended without someone asking first.  There is probably nothing wrong with livejournal or blogspot or any of those but I am a xangan and that’s what I use.  Why start over when I am totally satisfied with my current blogging situation?

    -megan

  • ive seen other people use blogs and other things like it and i find xanga to be the simplest to figure out. another reason its easier to make friends

    ~J@$0||

  • the subscriptions.

  • I started on blogger, and then moved as friends moved.  Xanga seems pretty user-friendly.

  • Xanga is generally thought about as a blog, whereas myspaces or somtehing else like that is mucch more convinient for pic and stuff, when me and my dad go on our bike trip in the spring, he’ll use his Wi-Fi enabaled Palm Piolt to update text to xanga almost daily, and once or twice a week post pitures on his freewebs site, and me? I will simply use a note pad or two to record data and ramblings and then do some posting on Xanga when we get home

  • i only use xanga. i do read some sites on other blogs though. i have a friend that has one on livejournal that i read occationally. and sometiems there will be links to other places on xanga sites and i’ll flip it and it’ll be somewhere like on the other blog types. i like xanga’s set up best.

  • i like xanga just because it seems more easy to navigate, and the majority of my frineds are on here so its easier to leave comments. myspace- im not a particular fan of, i feel as if my space is just a big competition of whose hot and whose not and who has the most friends and shows the most skin in their pictures.

  • Funny you should mention this…as I was just yesterday creating a “My Space”.  I have yet to keep up with my Xanga blog, lol, but a friend of mine who was quite frequent in Xanga, has recently left for the “My Space” and asked me if I would give it a try.  I too had difficulty figuring out how to do anything on “My Space”.  For now, Xanga, if I ever decide to write again, is where I choose to stay.  I love the Blog idea simply because it gives everyone a chance to be heard and seems to make a difference in the Collective Conscience. 

  • on a side note:
    omg! there’s pictures in your “oldest” post… my computer happen to break down over the thanksgiving holiday and i didnt notice them till now as i’m sitting at work slacking apparently… and what ever happened to your yet_still_learning and jeeves777 matching?

  • I have a MySpace, a LiveJournal, and a Xanga. The first two I rarely use, because most of my friends have a Xanga, and MySpace and Livejournal both take longer to load on my browser. I’m a Xanga addict. heh.

  • I like Xanga because it’s simply blogging.

    I also have a MYSPACE and it’s a fucking mess. There’s too much stuff there that I don’t care to mess with.

    MYSPACE is strictly to keep in touch with a few friends that don’t use Xanga anymore.

  • Well, I am addicted to the internet… so I have a Xanga, Myspace and Facebook. I also have the new Yahoo 360 thing (which I dont really like).  I only blog on Xanga though because it is by far the easiest.  I love Myspace and Facebook just to keep up with friends… commenting back and forth on their pages, but on you have to be someone’s friend to comment to them on those sites.  I like Xanga because it is primarily a blog while the other sites have many other features. Unlike on the Facebook and Myspace, some of my Xanga friends I have never met in real life.  It is a lot easier to meet people on here like you said.

  • Community.

  • I heard there was a theologian on xanga  that runs over rabbits and squirrels and stuff… I like this place.

  • myspace annoys me, though i have an account there. i just use it to check on/comment my friends who have that instead of xanga.
    i love me some xanga though. so friendly!

  • I use xanga because it was my first blogging thing.

    Plus, Myspace does seem to have a emphasis on pictures.

    Also, xanga is easier to work your layouts haha

  • When I first started blogging it was on BlogSpot (about 2 years ago)  and it was easy to get started but there was no sense of community like there is here on xanga.

  • I think Xanga is better looking, easier to use, and has a better sense of community than a lot of the other blogging tools. Don’t even get me started on MySpace. It just seems…trashy. It’s all about taking skanky pictures and hooking up, and the blogs are generally dumb and trashy. Ugh. And yet, I still have a MySpace. So sad.

  • I used to have a lot of journals about different parts of me and my issues now I just have this one and one on my site. I use wordpress on my site. I only keep it for other topics than I write about on Xanga. I like to write about herbs, goddess, angels, and on xanga I just write about my life. A lot of journals are more sophisticated than xanga but then again they are not as user friendly.  Judi

  • xanga because people i actually see in everyday life also have xanga, we have our own little network. honestly, i used to have a live journal but it was too confusing. it was too hard too add friends, read their xangas, comment. their website is less organized, more complex, and it takes up more time, all without being any better. i also think that xangas look more attractive. i frequent my myspace even more so than my xanga, and you’re right to say that there’s an emphasis of pictures… but it’s nice because everyone and their mother has a myspace and you can keep in touch with everyone with a click or two. not to mention, i find much humor in others profiles.

  • Interesting.  Just a few minutes ago I called myself out on my site about my reasons for blogging.

  • although i still use xanga … (protected posts, mind you) …

    MySpace is the shit.
    Xanga is shit.

  • I use xanga because it’s easy to use, and I think if I was to ever change, I would change to typepad……Which is not out of the question…I love their layouts…..

  • haha ive got a xanga,myspace,livejournal,darkstarlings,vampirefreak,greaterjournal,msn,yahoo…i love them all!!!

  • aaaahhhhh the simplicity.

    push for Christ,

    the woebegoner

  • RYC: Thank you! I’m ready to literally kick butt and take this weight off!

    I’m on Xanga because my best friend told me about it and to be honest, I didn’t even know those other ones were out there.

  • Xanga is the only one I know and I see no reason to change it.

  • I looked a myspace, but it is a total meat market.  I picked xanga because it was the first journal site someone introduced me to.  Now I’m used to it and “locked in”, so I doubt I’ll switch even if something better comes along.

  • I like xanga, it’s more family friendly, to a point…thankfully i haven’t run into too many nutballs here. plus, xanga is more idiot friendly, as far as layouts and such. I’ve made a ton of friends here, and they are awesome!! i’ve even talked to them IRL, so that’s great!

  • My son had a Xanga site so that is why I looked into Xanga.  I really didn’t know what I would use it for when I got my own Xanga site.  I prefer to post pics of current events or people in the news and then type a short commentary of my take of those people or events.    I rarely post personal stuff on Xanga. 

    However, with foaling season in full swing now I am having more fun with Xanga because I am using it for pictures of the mares and foals and explaining what is going on.  Using it as sort of an educational thing for people who don’t know anything about horses, breeding horses and foaling out mares.  After foaling season, I don’t know if I’ll keep up my Xanga site or not.  Depends on what kind of mood I’m in at the time I guess. 

    I’ve seen Live Journal and I’ve heard about My Space, but they really don’t interest me…..I wouldn’t have the time for them anyway.   

    I’ve been in contact with some really nice people on Xanga and some really gawd awful people too.  So it comes with the territory I guess. 

  • I started doing Xanga to spy on a friend’s daughter for her, lol. I started liking it myself and I also tried livejournal and myspace, but Xanga is so much easier.

  • you’re right about the picture trend on myspace.  a lot of times, they (the pictures) are just plain disgusting.  also, xanga is more of a community, i think.  you can get to know a person through it.  and you can support others through it.   

  • I started using xanga because a friend introduced me to it (almost 4 years ago!!). My husband introduced me to Livejournal. I use them both because I’ve got friends there. I also have a myspace account, but I really only use it to find bands and stuff, because it seems like too much of a “hook-up” type site. I dont’ really post or anything on Myspace.

    But I think Xanga is by far my favorite. It’s easier (for me) to use and customize.

  • I have several blogs.

    I have my Xanga, which I have had since March 2001 (almost 5 years! What commitment!) I joined Xanga way before anyone knew what it was. This is my private journal that none of my “real” friends can see. I have about 8 people on my protected list who may see my posts and I know none of them in real life. This is where I write anything I want without worrying about consequences are judgment.

    I have my live journal, which is for relatives and friends I went to college with who moved away from me. I only post things there that I feel comfortable letting people who know me see.

    I have a MySpace which is basically just so I can say “yes, I have a MySpace.” I maintain it minimally and use it to connect with people in my local music scene. It’s more about finding old friends and making a few new ones

    I’ve never had a blog for the glory of Internet popularity. It is nice to meet people who I have things in common with, but I am very content with the few people who I keep up with and vice versa.

  • Xanga is easier to use, and it focuses more on the writing aspect of a blog. I love that. That is why I use xanga. I write in it, and I feel better.

  • it’s the shit.

  • I post both on Xanga and MySpace. The difference is that on my Xanga space I tend to be more open, creative and explore issues that I do not feel comfortable doing on the MySpace atmosphere. I think this is primarily because MySpace is so generic in a sense- meaning that everyone I know is on this site. People I haven’t had contact with since middle school are suddenly sending in “friend requests” to me so they can add me to their friends. I think it is primarily a game of who can have the most friends and the most face time. I will admit to having a like for this site, but not for my real blogging. For thought provoking, mind shattering, earth-moving comments, ideas, suggestions and feelings, I use my Xanga. I feel that those people who are on here are actually on here to blog and record in a more intimate setting versus the other. My blog on MySpace does not compare in any way to my Xanga site. Kudos to Xanga for that one. I’ve only been blogging here for a short time, but I will continue to do so and will continue to read great sites such as this because they enlighten me in ways that others do not.

  • I know more people with a Xanga than the others.  Even though Myspace has more features, I like reading the blogs on Xanga better.  Xanga is also the easiest to use.

    Erika

  • It’s more website, and less “journal” (like Blogger, and LiveJournal).

    MySpace was originally begun as a hook-up service, and still bears much of that.

  • xanga as more organized posts as opposed to myspace. however, myspace is a better place to meet people/interact with friends

  • I like xanga because it is user-friendly, much easier than the other sites, has lots of users, and is easier to connect with many people :)

  • Xanga is the easiest to customize & I like the Xangan community.

    Candy

  • I’ve got a myspace and a livejournal, all for different reasons. I signed up to myspace before it was really popular, and didn’t see the point until finally everyone had it. Its kind of like xanga with a coverpage, and directed more towards music. Livejournal doesn’t have as much freedom to create your own layout, which I like a lot about xanga, but I use it to comment on friend’s sites who don’t use xanga.

  • Xanga just plain feels right.

  • I started using Xanga because Whitney uses it, and I guess that’s why I’ve never used any of the other blogging sites.

    One is enough for me anyways.

    Nicholas

  • it’s definitely the easiest to use…  MySpace is WAY too complicated, and it’s not really about blogging… it’s more about getting “friends” on your list and getting comments…  my kids are VERY into MySpace… no thanks.

  • I signed up for three or four blogs initially, and this one had the customization and look that I liked best. It was also easiest to use.

  • Because I got arrested and kicked out of high school for my blogger.

  • All my friends have MySpaces, but I hate it. I WILL NOT post my name, school, or picture, and on MySpace there’s a lot of pressure to do that.

    Plus it’s sorta awkward, not about writing at all, and like the first commenter said, a “meat market”. When I think of a blog I want to read something intelligent (that’s why I am usually here lol). I don’t want to read something that says, “Lyk so i went to da mAlL and lyk bot an awsum pink puRsE now im lYk so popUlAR!”. That’s boring.

    Not that there is none of that on Xanga, but still, it’s more about writing and propping, not a popularity contest or a hook-up club.

    I used to have a Blogger, but no one read it. It was so boring. If I’m going to waste my time writing about my boring life I at least want to read about other peoples’ boring lives and have people read mine.

    I also had a Tripod, but again, no one read it.

    Xanga is the only blog I have ever kept for any length of time, and it looks like it’s going to stay that way.

  • i dunno…i just like the feel better….myspace is retarded…i dont like livejournal….im just attracted to xanga.
    its kind of like a journal.
    i have a private one for psychic stuffs.
    yeah….my dreams often scare me….

  • I’m only on Xanga because most of my friends use xangas. I prefer Blogger.

  • I read that article too. I have accounts at LiveJournal, Blogger, Xanga, and MySpace. The only ones I keep up are my Xanga and MySpace. I signed up with all these different places to try to keep up with my friends. Then decided to just post the generic link “my blog can be found at. . .” post at LJ and Blogger so people could just link to my Xanga. It’s too much to keep up with so many accounts. I don’t have time.

    I chose Xanga over the rest though, because that’s what my boyfriend at the time had, and he set the account up for me.

  • i hab a lj, too…

    xanga for publicity

    lj for intimacy

  • PS… I really wish my friends would get xangas.

  • It’s an actual blog, where you write. :/

    MySpace is for emo teenyboppers. Where they can all hook up and post their emo pictures. There’s nothing good about myspace: nothing to read, a bunch of oversized pictures, and copy-pasted long surveys. At least all the teenyboppers flocked to myspace and left Xanga. That’s the only thing good about it.

  • my space is for banging buddies…

  • Cause it’s easier and I’m not that smart when it comes to that kind of stuff.

  • I use xanga, livejournal, and myspace regularly (except for the blog). Myspace used mainly to keep in touch with friends who have gone off to college. Most of my friends are on xanga as opposed to elsewhere so that’s why I’m here.

    I also have a greatestjournal, a deadjournal, and a blogger.com account, a deviantart account (which includes journal), which I have never used/ or never use anymore.

  • I personally like the newsgroup-style commenting on Livejournal, but I came over to Xanga because it’s exponentially more popular.

  • There are about 1,200 or so people in my high school. Our school blogring has over 300 members, and that doesn’t count the students who have a xanga but didn’t join the blogring. Also, I have a few friends in other towns/states that use xanga, as well as my sister who is in college, where I don’t get to see much of her, unfortunately. Generally speaking, xanga is a good communication tool- part forum, part bulletin board, part personal journal.

    I’ve found that xanga has everything I need, and I’m a creature of habit- I don’t really feel like learning how to use myspace, and my livejournal died long ago. I can’t facebook yet (my sister does, though) because my high school isn’t on it, and you have to have a school e-mail address to use it.

  • Because Xanga is about the person behind the picture and it’s about their thoughts and writing… not so much about random surveys and pics of hot girls/ guys.

  • Because Xanga is wtfpwn.

  • My college-aged son was home this past summer and left a friend’s Xanga site bookmarked. I checked it out and enjoyed his posts, the friend’s. Before long, I started my own site with my son’s help. Now we use our sites to keep in touch. He has since graduated and moved to Germany to work. I tried MySpace too, but ran into the same confusion. I am just now beginning to branch out and check out other sites than my family and their friends. Actually, that is how I ended up here. Good questions! I hope you can keep them up.

  • XAnga’s is more poular and more fantastico senor!!

  • I go where my friends go… and we’re on xanga, myspace, and facebook… so yes.

  • Simplicity and a more honest community. Plus it’s what a lot of other people have.

  • I tried another host service and found it pretty much incomprehensible and I consider myself at least marginally computer literate.  Xanga gets me virtually (ha- pun) everywhere I want to go and the price is right.

    L,r

  • I think if you want to meet people xanga is one of the best blogging tools out there.  This is because of webring features– you can click a link and magically be connected to up to hundreds or thousands of people who share some interest with you.  There’s also the public usbscription lists, where you can click endlessly looking through new blogs that still have some thread connecting them together.

    Xanga also has private and protected posting, which is really nice. 

    I’m on blogger mainly now, and the biggest thing I like about it currently is how they set up old posts so you can look through them more easily, and also that you can be more anonymous in a way.  Xanga is for reaching out to people and broadcasting your thoughts and opinions.  On blogspot I can click a setting that takes me off their main network, so I can “hide away” if you will, be disconnected from all the other blogspot blogs out there.

    Myspace is also good for connecting to people, but it’s more about the actual connection than what you’re trying to say through it.  Xanga IS a blog, myspace simply has a blog as an added feature.  Make sense?

    In conclusion, you seem to be most interested in the reaching out to people aspect so I definitely think xanga is the best blog community for you.

  • My daughter just set up a myspace. She said it was a pain in the butt, and she’s pretty computer literate!

    I just did Xanga because my kids were, and I kind of got hooked up in it!

  • Xanga was the first (And last, so far) time that I’ve had a blog. I don’t like change, so I’ve had mine for a while.

  • I like Xanga better because the people here don’t know me. I can say anything I want here (I hate you, Ashley. Drown somewhere.) and not get killed. It’s like, if I post it on places where people I know could read about it, they’ll judge me and probably ruin everything or something. I pust some pretty weird stuff on Xanga.

  • PUT^

  • Habit

  • Xanga is much more userfriendly than a lot of the other blogs I’ve seen, and what makes it tops in my book is that you have a better chance to meet people here and give/receive comments.  I had a blogger account before this but find that xanga is more visually appealing and has a stronger sense of community.  So yeah.

  • My closest friends introduced me to Xanga, so that is why I stay.  I really do not need more than one weblog, so I maintain the one I have.

  • Facebook’s nice too.

  • Because the first fiend that I knew had a blog was on Xanga.

  • mostly because its user friendly

  • xanag is simple. i can appreciate simple.

  • Xanga is for writing more personal entries, or just whatever I feel like writing? I don’t know.

    Myspace, is so I can comment other people’s pictures or talk to people who don’t ahve a xanga.

  • I’ve lost many FRANGAS to myspace and I am SO sad!!!!!

    I’m not moving anywhere! I can barely keep up with xanga!

    ((( GRANDMA HUGS )))
    Lori

  • xanga is just my own private world, and only cool people that happen to have one usually find mine anyway!!

  • Me Too!  I cannot figure my space out!  I guess I am spaced out!  oh well. xanga is easy to use, has had nice people up to now.  Actually, some of the pictures on my space look scary.  I do not need to hook up.  I hope no problems come from this place.all the best

  • xanga is easy, most of my friends are on it, and did i mention it’s easy?

    myspace confused me too.

  • others are annoyin to control

  • Xanga is less of a date-hook-up-place and more of a sharing thoughts place…depending on which blogs you read.  MySpace has a rep of being rather trashy.  Xanga is easier to keep track of people on.  It also has a cooler name.

  • do you like my hat???

    <333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333

  • Myspace is more about talking to friends, meeting members of the opposite sex and whoreing over each other’s pictures. I much prefer xanga to myspace. Although, I use my myspace blog as a preview site for my xanga blog.

  • I chose here over MySpace because, aside from it being simpler, MySpace is heavily a pr0n community.  My girlfriend has a MySpace account as well as xanga and she tels me how she’ll go to the message boards and people will be advertising themselves, “I’m 15 and really turned on. Se my webcam” and such.  I don’t desire that community. While I admit, there are a few people that I’ve seen on xanga that post some rather graphic things, it’s nowhere near as prevalent.  As well, MySpace seems to be mostly high school and jr. high aged kids and I don’t want to be in that, as I fall into neither category.

  • Whats the Theologians Cafe?

  • i like to know people and also some of my friends use xanga too

    Karla

  • MySpace is way too young for me. :) It’s all about the hot pictures, who you can get to “be your friend” and much less about writing. Although I don’t always write deep things on my blog I at least don’t feel alone when I do. I find quite a variety of people on Xanga and the writing sometimes is quite thought provoking, unlike MySpace which mostly consists of “hey, what’s up peeps”.

  • crazy1 86:hey baby!!!
    h0tNsPiCy91: whos dis???
    crazy1 86:ur secret admirer!!!!!
    h0tNsPiCy91: o really…. quite lyin! whos dis???
    crazy1 86:i loved u the first time a stared in your eyes…
    crazy1 86:i think about u everyday… you are my dream come true.
    crazy1 86: we met once! i dont think u remember tho.
    crazy1 86: i cut myself because the pain takes away my feelings of u.
    crazy1 86: tonight u will see me some time tonight….
    h0tNsPiCy91: ..WHO IS THIS!?!?!?
    crazy1 86:dont worry…. ill take very good care of you…

    crazy1 86 had signed off.

    the girl was so scared she locked alll her doors and windows. she made sure her room was secured. she was so scared if it was a joke or for real. she didnt know when he was going to come. the girl was frighten so she decided to sleep with her little sister. the girl dozed off quikly. then she heards a knock on the window. the girl slowly walked to the window. it started knocking louder. the girl looked through the windows and saw nothing. just some of the tree branches. the girl went back to bed with her sister. the bed was wet and a pretty smells horrid. maybe her sister wet the bed… the girl checked and found blood everywhere. the girl panick. she didnt know what to do. she ran and hid in the closet incase the guy was their for her. while looking through the cracks of the closet the girl saw a shadow. it was dark so she couldnt figure out who it was. she started to get more frighten. the man crept closer to the closet. the girl closed her eyes as if it was a dream. then suddenly he open the closet door and pulled her out. her parents found her dead. she was skinned all the way and was hunged in her sisters closet.

    PART 2…

    2 years after the the sisters deaths, the her parents got pregnant with a baby boy the girls room became a guest bedroom and the little sisters room where the murder took place became the babys room. the baby grew up to be a secessful kid. one night he was on the computer and got a instant messege.

    h0tNsPiCy91:hey lil bro!!!
    2seXay4u: who the f is this?
    h0tNsPiCy91: its your big sis.
    2seXay4u: i never had a sister. im an only child.
    2seXay4u:this is some kinda joke huh?
    h0tNsPiCy91: mom and dad never told you?
    h0tNsPiCy91: i died 15 years ago with your other older sister.
    h0tNsPiCy91:we were murdered in your room which was once my little sisters room. she was killed in bed when i was sleeping and i was killed in the closet and skinned to death.
    2seXay4u:quite lying. i never had a sister. if i did my parents would tell me. whatever. your stupid.
    h0tNsPiCy91: you dont believe me? well if you wanna look in your closet floor.
    h0tNsPiCy91: i carved my name, time and date i was being murdered. then i
    carved my little sister name.
    h0tNsPiCy91: if you dont believe me little brother check the internet. type in ”smith sisters murdered anonymously”.
    h0tNsPiCy91: i gtg little brother. i love you. and mom and dad soo much. i cant believe they kept us a secret from you. they should burn in hell.

    the boy checked the closet. he saw the carvings. was it true? he surfed the internet and everything was their about the anonymous murder in the house. the next morning the boy went downstairs. it was so queit. maybe mom and dad was sleeping.. hours later the boy found his parents in their closets skinned and hung. then he found more carvings on the ground. it says ” I TOLD YOU I WASNT LYING. LITTLE BROTHER, I LOVED MOM AND DAD…. BUT THEY KEPT ME A SECRET. I CANT BELIVE IT. WELL IM FREE FROM THIS COLD WORLD. I WONT HURT YOU LIKE HOW THEY DIED. I LOVE YOU!

    LISA SMITH ”

    this is a death chain. if you dont send this in the next hour the parents will kill you at night. they will kill you like how they and the sisters were killed. good luck!!! >send this to 10 ppl in the next 5 mins………
    >and……..
    >u will get kissed on friday by da luv of ur life….
    >DONT BREAK THE chain!
    >ur crush will ask u out.
    >2morow will b da best day of ur life.
    >Howeva, if u dont send this 2 @ least 10 ppl
    >by @ least 12:00 2nite u willhave bad luck in ur luv life 4 da rest of ur >life

  • At first I hated Myspace too, but then it became basically my all in one email/chat/message service.  Really, I left Xanga because everybody else left it for Myspace.  If nobody will read my stuff.. why write it? (I use online blogs for communication only, I do all my personal, actual writing in ink.) I like the way Xanga is more private, but it is really hard to find people. And at the same time, it is not more private because you can’t send a message to just one person. (On Myspace, you can search them by their real name and message a single person.) I use Xanga (mostly just their Subscription service) to keep up with a few friends who live far away and have no Myspace.  I have a livejournal too, but it’s a complicated service, lots of glitches. I don’t use it much, just to keep up with one or two people who do and to post some private stuff. 
    I couldn’t get a facebook account.. something wrong with my email address even though I go to a college they recognize.  So I gave up.

    I think the main weblog services have their flaws, (I don’t know about the others.) but any one of them is good.  It’s a matter of what you’re here-or there- for, I think.

  • Well I use Xangas because I have a lot of friends from other places. This was also my first blog. I also have a LiveJournal which I keep private where I really let stuff out. I have a Myspace because I can keep up with my friends from school. I also have a Bolt account which I love.

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