March 20, 2008
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Commenting and Posting
I have noticed blogs that update regularly and yet no one comments on their blogs. And yet, they keep updating. They post regularly without fail. In fact, I have this one lady that I subscribe to and she doesn’t even have her comments enabled.
If everyone stopped commenting on your posts, would you still post to xanga?
Comments (202)
i don’t get that many comments… but i get some… and i keep on writing anyway. i do it more for me sometimes… like a way to vent and keep my thoughts straight. but if i had no comments ever whatsoever? maybe not…
There would be less incentive for me to post.
If I disabled comments.
people rarely comment on mine, so its usually a shock to get one. but that fact doesn’t stop me from writting; i do it for me and no one else
@Mean_Mistress - I like that attitude
Very refreshing, if you know what I mean! Write on!
I might get a little discouraged, but I’d probably keep posting.
Yeah. I don’t get a ton of comments, but I have my faithful few. It’s my journal, though. It’s for me to look back on, read over, and observe my progress. Commenters/readers make it a lot more fun, and motivate me to keep up with it though.
Great question, Dan.
Xanga is a place for me to rant and pour my feelings to absolutely no one.
I don’t care for comments.
I actualloy posted an entry about how I have so many people that come and look… but don’t leave any comments. I guess I keep writing blogs because I know people come look… even if they don’t leave comments. I wish they’d comment though, so I know what they think…
I would still use Xanga to write every now and then, but would use it more so to comment on others blogs, etc.
Well I might start to wonder if I smell bad if everyone suddenly stopped commenting LOL! But I would probably still post privately.
I get less comments these days, but I post a lot less, so I figure that’s how it goes. When I get back into gear the comments go back up.
I can remember when no one commented and I was just ranting into thin air!
I was still a horribly strange egomaniac then, too.
SInce I have been on here for quite awhile…..there are some days I get a lot of comments and others where there is just a few…..if I feel there is no one reading or commenting I guess it does mess with ones head but I do it to just clear the air after working all day…..
Probably.
Yeah. Mostly, I do it for me. But it’s still nice to have input sometimes.
It would be completely fine if I didn’t get comments. Actually, I get very few as is.
The Renaissance of Xanga has ended. This is more like the Middle Ages; around the time of the Bubonic Plague.
I probably would for a while anyway. But my posts would change.
hey love,
Yepppers i would still post b/c i get so lost if i don’t let out my feeling and actually think about stuff but comments are nice to to know that in this busy world with people constantly moving around me i’m not alone.
kisses-ella
Yes. I still posted even when I’d go through eight posts without comments. And I even kept commenting.
Wow… probably not… because I think of my site as a social place… If I treated it as more of a journal I would definetily post daily and not worry about comments…
Of course.
When I started this account I disabled the comments so that it would be just for myself.
I probobly wouldn’t update as often, but no, I wouldn’t stop. It is, after all, a journal of sorts.
plus, comments are nice. they let me know I’m not insane.
I’d be sad, just because most of the people who comment on my site are my friends, and if they stopped commenting, I’d feel friendless. I don’t get many comments from people I don’t talk to regularly on here.
I don’t get comments, but I have a tracker and know which users look at my site and how often. That’s pretty much my motivation. If I stopped getting visitors and comments altogether it would be very very hard for me to continue posting.
Absolutely.
when i first started blogging on xanga,
comments and eprops were my life
i’d be sad if no one commented
even though i knew they read my entry
more than a year ago,
i disabled my comments
i stopped caring about getting them
or even if people read my posts
now i just write to write
for me and no one else
some people just write for themselves.. comments are just icing on the cake
Yes…during the past 1-2 years, my Xanga has taken on a much more personal meaning; I post more for myself than other people. I’d probably keep it even if I stopped getting comments.
Absolutely. While I enjoy the comments and the minis I get, if everyone just stopped reading, I’d still post for myself. When I first started, no one commented, then little by little I gain readers and eventually friends through xanga. I use xanga as my way of getting out my thoughts and emotions on the day to day events of my life. Comments or no, I’d still continue to post.
the first time i signed up with Xanga, I was obess with people’s reply. But however, they rarely ever comment my site so I have long ago given up hope on expectin to hear anyone’s opinion on what I have to say.
However, I keep writing, because it is my only escape from reality as well as a reliable friend that I can always count on.
As time goes by, now that I have been Xanga’s fan for over three years or so, I have learned that comments won’t always be something I can rely on. A lot of times they can be just upsetting and stupid as well as supportive and exciting.
I have always WANTED to know if my writing ever made any difference on anyone that read my site.
No. Seems like a waste of time, although there are other people’s posts that I read that don’t get a lot of comments and I’m glad they still post.
I think I’d be scribbling in a journal instead if there were NO comments.
of course I would continue to use xanga. I like reading what other people write.
. . .The interactive element is a big draw for me.
If my post would speak to one person, that to me would be worth everything. I dont get a lot of comments but I am not all about being miss popular, never have and never will; I just feel inspired to share from my heart.
I would probably continue to post, but I would feel very unloved.
Comments don’t bother me. Most of my entries are styled in such a way that the comments don’t really add much to anything. It used to be that people gave me opinions and things about what to post, but since all the readers have my instant messaging names, they bombard me with IMs about ideas. Also, they send me comments via IM too. I suppose I’m a novelty in that regard.
Yes, I would post anyway. For all the reasons already mentioned and the need for creative expression. For artists, it is really good for our brains to interact with fellow artists. We inspire each other and it feeds our creativity….even if we don’t post to every comment. Many of us are a bit reclusive and this is a comfortable environment to interact. Great question! I have a question for you. Do you actually read all your comments?
I blog for the sake of blogging, and don’t have much on my site that matters to me at all anyway, so yeah I’d keep updating just to see what happens.
I love getting comments, so I wouldn’t post as often, no.
no one ever comments on my xanga, but i also don’t post regularly.
i don’t post on xanga for comments. i did, originally, but then it became a place to express myself. in fact, now, i prefer strangers only commenting because a lot of the things i put are so personal.
i still would…i update to update.
i hardly ever comment on other people’s blogs. i don’t really receive that many comments either. maybe one or two here and there.
but i write for me.
Sometimes it’s just nice to get thoughts down, even if no one comments on or reads them. Then again, we could actually write things down on paper… Meh, I might still post out of habit.
I appreciate feedback and it tends to make me write more often; however, I don’t depend on it. I write sometimes in horribly disconnected ways that merely are a stream of thoughts. I usually write for me so if abandoned I would still write.
The only people who comment on my posts are my best friend and an ex-boyfriend. Xanga started as a way for me to keep a “journal” because I was getting too tired of hand writing–so, that’s the way it will end to. I write about my boring life and how I don’t know what the hell I’m going to do with the rest of my life and I’m ok with the fact that no one cares because I don’t really care that much either.
I don’t get that many comments, and that’s ok with me.
My xanga is for me, not for anyone else. It’s nice if I continue conversations with others through the site, but that doesn’t have to be through comments.
I guess so…I don’t really get hardly any comments, so, YES.
I write for myself and only about four or five friends that comment regularly.
Xo
Yes, most of my entries are private, because I do it for me, not to get comments.
of course!!! i’m not here for comments (though i love to get them) — i write because i live… maybe it’s not good, but hey, that’s ok too.
)
For a while I never got comments. That’s when I stoped posting. Not on purpose though, It was kinda just subconsiously. I just wasn’t excited because I LOVE feedback.
So lately i’ve been commenting random people who have nice posts and then starting convo’s.
So yeah, I’d probably stop.
yes i would post but I would feel a bit discouraged. I like comments on my page, like most people do.
I write for myself really…because if I didn’t write on xanga i would be writing somewhere else
More than likely. Sometimes my posts get no comments, sometimes they get a lot. But, either way, even if people don’t comment, surely some people see it, so, yeah, I’d still post.
God Bless,
Chris
sure. I don’t blog for comments!
I would still post….for a bit at least!
also i would think when I die or pass away…or when I become an old man these posts will have a high sentimental value. Especially if I die in a crazy way, there would be so many people swarming to look at my posts.
Probably.
i post blogs for the love of writing and venting so i’d rather have people send me messages than leave a public note. that way, it’s more personal. you know. like how you send me messages =] i LOVE that.
i didnt get comments until i started leaving comments and footprints on other peoples sites. but even when i didnt get comments, i still kept posting.. a xanga friend of mine disables comments but once she enabled it for ONE post… she got 23572983423 comments. x]
still now, i dont get a lot of comments.. but i still post. :] nothiing wrong with it.. my xanga is still my blog.. my diary.
I’d probably word my posts a little differently, if comments were disabled. But I’d still write. I like to go back and read what I was feeling and thinking at those times. It is still a journal.
Yeah. I don’t post just for comments. I post because I like to! But comments do make me very glad!
Yep, I don’t have Xanga for everyone to comment, I have it to write out my thoughts.
I have a personal journal, very few people have the link for, I never get comments there, but it’s all good.
Usually I post/journal for my benefit and I don’t care how many comments that I get. However, honestly, sometimes I do a post with a topic that I like to get feedback on, and for the most part, my visitors don’t let me down. . .
I used to feel like I needed to leave a comment on every post I read, but they aren’t as special then . . .So you should feel special I guess! LOL
yep. i keep several blogs that no one even knows about.
In real life, when I find that I have nobody to rant to, I turn to my teddy bear.
i never cared if i recieved comments in the beginning but now that i have built many relationships here through xanga i look forward to them.
come to my xanga for proof! i rarely get comments anymore. i’m a writer, so i’ll keep up mine for a while. comments or not.
Um i’m only on here for me… not for comments. But i enable comments anyways because, i don’t know. Why not?
Sure. Its like a free online journal to me. I only get about 1-4 per entry anyways.
I have very few comments on my Xanga. I assumed that I was talking to myself all the time
yeah. i don’t usually get lots of comments. for me it’s not about that. it’s just a nice place to be able to put whatever i want whenever i want.
definitely. i don’t enable comments on my posts right now
Yes. As one of my favorite rappers said:
“I write it for me, if you like it thats love; if you don’t thats life cause life don’t love slug.”-Slug of Atmosphere
Yeah o_o no one comments my stuff, but I kinda do xanga for me…to remember my days O_o I go back and read my old stuff like “Ohh, man that day was fun
” or “Ohhh that day sucked 
”. I like to remember what I did 
yp, i would. I post for myself. U know something to look back at in the future…
YES
yeah, probably. besides being a good way for me to put into words for myself what is in my head, I know there are people who subscribe and read it (even if they never comment or never even call me back cause they are busy college kids now)
Yes I would and I do.
I post… that’s what’s important…
yes, I don’t post on here for other people. I post for myself. But it does get lonely when people don’t comment for a couple posts
Yes because i blog for me.
No. But I post more when I have an influx of comments. It’s encouragement.
I keep posting hoping someone out there would someday care.
I may not post as often. I look at the number of footprints going to each post as well as the comments. Posts that have a lot of traffic going to them, are more likely to find more posts on that subject as posts that got little traffic.
Probably not nearly as often, it would end up being more of a journal than a blog.
Ha, it’s what I’m always doing. Pretty much all of my friends have up and left xanga…
I just like to get things out, even if nobody’s reading. If they do and have something to say, then that’s all the better.
But, since mostly they don’t, I’m still content.
Well it always shocks me when I actually do get a comment so I guess it wouldn’t really matter if anyone commented or not. I’m also guessing that I’ve never got a star either.
I didn’t start Xanga to hear from other people. I started so that I could clear the cobwebs out of my brain. I continue to use it for that very reason. I also admit to enjoying the comments and I like meeting everyone. I have met some terrific people on here and I am thankful for that.
Of course!
I blog for myself, not to have a numerical count of how many people ‘love’ me. There’s myspace for that.
*sigh* I do. Mostly I just look at yours though. Sometimes there’s interesting stuff.
I post on Blogger, and hardly anyone regularly comments. I continue to post. With the tracker, I can see that people visit; I just want to get the Word out, I don’t care if they comment or not.
Oh, I’m sure that is really a MAJOR concern of yours.
Yes. I don’t blog, but if I did it would be for me, not the readers, anyhow.
Considering I don’t get many comments ever, yes. I write to vent or to to brainstorm, I don’t write so people can tell me how lame my life or my ideas are
not everyone is a comment whore.
haha =D
you get discouraged a little, if that’s the main reason you’re posting to begin with…
but then again, some people post just for the sake of posting and for themselves. or maybe it’s just to keep people updated, and could care less about the comments. we aren’t all you dan.. :]
I’d still post, usually what I put on here is stuff that for some strange reason I can’t write in my other journal, somehow it doesn’t seem like I have to ‘own’ my problems if they’re on the net, that and they’re are a few people who read but don’t comment and I feel that if I stop I’ll disappoint them…
I would keep posting my longer blogs, but some of my shorter blogs that I just write for my own amusement would go in their own paper journal.
i think of it as gravey .
of course, writing heals.
Comments are always nice, because it might help get the word out about my cause, but I post even when I recieve no comments in the hopes that what I write will affect someone.
Yes, but less often.
no one barely comments mine.
none of my friends appreciate xanga. *siiiigh*
People barely comment me. i continue to write, even addressing “the audience.” You know: asking opinions, speaking in second person, all that fun stuff. Wow I need a life
sometimes i disable my comments as well… i blog on xanga as if it was just a log of my life and thoughts
Yes. No need for comments. Xanga serves as my personal and public journal. Once in a while, if I do post something worth reading, I’d hope to see a couple comments. =)
There have been times when I have had no comments, sometimes I just write to write. to think and ponder about things. In fact, I use to keep a daily spiritual journal but after time have posted it online (expect for more personal ones that I still write privately). I use to post more often but now its not as frequent. I felt (and feel) that some of my thoughts and experiences might help people with their own life and also others might have something to say back to my blogs and writings.
Daniel (doubledb)
@Mean_Mistress - awwww wow… that’s really great, i mean you’re writing for the love of writing.
@EarthsAzureLight - it definitely would be discouraging, i do think so.
@Aslans_daughter - I like how you put it: clear the cobwebs in your head. Yeah. More or less, that’s the reason why I have a xanga too, but I think, for a higher percentage, my xanga exists because I want to remind myself that there are other people in the world and that i’m not the center of the universe. I always forget that fact.
@skittler335 - Yeah, and it’s better if you just write it down somewhere not in a public thing, right? Like not published,, like the traditional diary of some sort.
@Saphira07 - You just want to let it out. :] that’s great that xanga is able to help you let your feelings out. :]
I would keep posting. It does encourage me to post more when people do comment though.
@ChIcKaRoO831 - ditto.. i only forced my best friend to join xanga, but actually, i don’t know most of the people here.
there some people that look for a place to get away from a harsh reality. they dont feel like there is a person that listens or cares..and they have no one to express their thoughts to.therefore, they use blogs as the places to settle their loneliness.it just makes them feel a bit better to at least have a place for their thoughts.
@porcupinesol - just love writing and posting huh? that’s cool… it’s a let-out of expressions.
@thenameish - talking to myself all the time. everyone does that.. intrapersonal communication… people who don’t do that are having a pretty difficult time fixing what they have in mind. i think. :]
comments are good motivation … gives the feeling that people are interested to know what you’re opinions are, what’s going on in your life etc.
I suppose some things i just don’t want people to comment on i disable comments …
afterall; some blogs are purely public, whilst other people (like many above have said) are blogging for themselves … i’d say mine is a mixture. So comments or no comments, i would still post.
@Americanize666 - yeah. get away from harsh reality.
@ddearcaroline - oh yes! that’s usually just what i do. i often spend my time here at thetheologianscafe and sometimes, at the featured weblogs, just reading the fantastic thoughts of people. :] i don’t know. i love knowing what other peole are thinking. it’s really interesting for me.
yes.
hardly anybody ever reads it or bothers to comment, but I’ll keep posting anyway. I mostly write stuff so I can have at least a vague memory of what happened on a day to look at later. And if my mundane life manages to interest someone, so be it.
I don’t get comments often at all, but my xanga’s not really for popularity…it’s mostly just me venting, and I have a few friends who keep up to date with me with it, so…
Sure. I don’t get many comments or footprints as it is. But I try to add a little something to the community.
I used to get absolutely zero comments but I updated regularly. Why? Because it was fun.
Absolutely. No one really knows I have this blog and I don’t care if they do. I post just to post and journal online– I like typing. If I have something really personal I need to journal about then I write it in my own personal book. The whole reason behind it for me is to inspire my creative writing side so I can get back into screenwriting. I’m at a bit of an impass.
Thanks for the thought!
The comments are nice, and there are people I look forward to connecting with each day, but if there were no comments, I would still post. It’s the journaling, the thinking, the writing that I’m here for. It’s therapeutic.
I probably wouldn’t stop, because it’s like a form of therapy for me(I tend to keep things to myself, which isn’t healthy, but whatev.)
I can’t live with out my Xanga. So, the answer is yes. I might not write much but, the things that I do post in public is all real and means a lot to me. I’m happy if there is one person who pass by and read it or a dozen.
When I first started on xanga I didn’t know anyone was reading it. It was 2004. I didn’t know about blogrings, I didn’t know how to browse. I posted and posted and posted but I never got a single comment but from my one subscriber, the person who brought me to xanga. I didn’t know how subscription emails worked or protected entries, I just poured my heart out without ever really explicitly naming anything. I didn’t know how to enrich a post, there were no photo features, nothing.
Then I shut that xanga down and started the second one. On the second one I found you when you were featured. Once I found your blog I realized there were a lot of people here.
Now I blog because I actually hoped to meet as many people as I could on xanga. With no comments I would drop it and walk away. I don’t need a journal, I need people.
No, I would keep posting anyway. Even if no one sees it, it’s kind of freeing to put yourself out there to be seen. And it’s just nice to put some things down, to be able to go back and look at them later, see how you’ve changed. Comments are cool, but they aren’t why I started my blog, so I wouldn’t stop for them either.
I don’t get very many comments on my entries, and I also privatize them shortly after posting. While I truly enjoy feedback from others, I post more to clear out my thoughts and feelings, so I don’t mind terribly if an entry goes by without any comments.
@antisoccermom - Now, that’s an excellent way to look at it….
i think i would still post my posts….. for someone to read it in the near future
but ofcourse… what are blogs for??
its for someone to read….
i wanted someone to read mine… because i like it when someone like my posts….
But *sigh…. for now… almost 0 people read my blog…..
that’s why i keep on giving comment to someone.. until my blog becomes popular!
hehehehehe
Yes i post now!!
I remember back when no one stayed on facebook, i had 20-60 comments…then like probably after winter 2006…i had either none..or 1 to 5 comments
I dont really care if i get comments or not, Xanga is a blog, for me to vent out my feelings and other stuff. People can read it or not…
If no one commented I’d be less addicted to Xanga, I’d be more focused on my own work. But it would not be as much fun.
I have subscriber who has disabled comments his own site. He explained to me he did so becuase he would not feel satsfied if he didnät make feautered or got abut 100 comments/post for each post – and then he realized it effected the standard of his own work. I think that show a lot integrity!
i also have a livejournal, that im glad is on private and no one usese hahah
I havent used since last year…
The way I do my xanga now, if I never ever got comments then I might stop. But my daily blog, many times I don’t get any comments. I don’t write it for comments, though, I write it to keep a record of what I’m doing and thinking about, that I can look back on in years to come.
My friends don’t comment, but when I don’t blog they like to send me messages on AIM or email and tell me that I need to update. Go figure. =)
i ‘xanga’ to record thoughts and feelings of my everyday life… i really use it as an online journal. most of the time, i post for my own benefit (to keep memoirs and commentary on my life) and when i post for public benefit, it’s usually directed for my friends in real life.
i don’t get a lot of comments and call me simplistic but i feel flattered already when i get footprints. for me, it’s kinda surreal to get visits from people all over the world knowing that when they drop by, they break the invisible interpersonal barrier that separates people and take a peek into my inner-most thoughts and feelings. and when they comment, i’m thankful that they decide to take the extra step forward to make their presence known and actually be a part of my life. and all these, i consider as precious perks of taking a chance and writing a journal online.
but as perks go, for me, footprints and comments are things to be thankful for… but i would continue to blog without them!
so thanks for messaging me once Dan! cheers! God bless! =D
Indeed. It’s more a diary for me than a broadcast.
hmm….somehow i feel like this post is describing…me?? haha, or is it just coincidence that my comments options are all disabled? i blog for myself and myself only, a way to vent and keep track of where my life is. sort of like a diary, but a public one. i keep all the very personal entries private.
Yup, I have another blog that I update nearly everyday. No one comments on that, yet, I still write!
@Mean_Mistress - I totally agree. My writing is for me mostly.
Yes. The people that post comments are ones I actually know from school.
if that made any sense…I’m just saying that no one else posts and I don’t care. I just woke up…my brain isn’t working yet.
yes. its my journal, i will allow others to read it but for the most part ir is meant for myself.
there’s more to life than comments…
Sure I would, I can still see footprints after all, but even if nobody came by, I’m enough of a narcissist to appreciate my own writings without anyone else’s help.
Dan, I know you read mine but you rarely comment. The comments don’t matter, it’s the readers that count. With footprints registering from around the world, I know I have readers.
I’d still go on posting. It’s my memorabilia…
I don’t get as much comments as I used to because a lot of my subscribers don’t use Xanga as much as they once did. However, I like to keep certain things documented so I can look back and see what happened at certain points in my life. So I think I would still use Xanga although like squeakysoul said, there might be less incentive for me to post.
That’s what I’ve been doing for the past 4 years.
If everyone stopped commenting on my posts, I’d still continue to write more entries on Xanga.
A majority of the entries I write are mainly for myself, anyway. LOL ^_^ Though, it’s nice to have feedback from others. I find it a great motivator. 
@gratefulxgrapefruit - Renaissance came *after* the dark ages.
We’ve gone through the golden age, we’re in the gilded age right now, dark ages are coming, and there’s a renaissance afterwards. Hooray.
I’ve gone through that period of no comments for posts. It happened around the time nearly every one of my subscribers decided to leave xanga. I had a good few months where the only commentor I’d get was Wes, over at PilgrimofTruth.
It’s not as bad as it sounds.
Yes, but if I never got comments at all, I’d change what I was posting. Less politics, more politics. More personal, less personal. Videos from YouTube, links to cool sites. Man, I’d find SOMETHING people wanted to read.
Yeah !
I blog to keep in touch with family really, so yes. There’s nothing in my writings that will ever change the world so it’s mostly family that read it.
Of course. A blog, to me, is an online diary because I’m too lazy to actually write it down on actually paper.
I post for me; so I can look back and se everything.
Yeah. I often update to keep family and friends back home up to speed. Well, at least that was my initial idea.
I did keep posting for the longest when most of my old subscribers went to Myspace.
I don’t do it for the comments. If I get one great, but usually its just for me. If I want comments I head over to my writing site. Here I just talk.
The quality would go down a lot, which is actually possible, believe it or not
of course. but i don`t think you would.
i never get comments. xanga used to be popular amongst my friends, but they have all traded it in for xanga or facebook. although i have also created a facebook to communicate with them, xanga is for me. just writing down what i am thinking… even if no one else will read it
myspace*, not xanga. silly
I don’t get many comments as it is. I like to answer people’s though.
i don’t have a xanga for comments. i write for myself. if i get comments on any of the boring shit that i write, well then that’s wonderful.
Yes I would keep blogging for a record of our life. It is great to look back and see what was going on in the past. Also, people can actually get to know me with all that history.
yeah…
well to be honest no one comments on my posts that often to begin with!
Are you talking about me???? Seriously, I post all my entries as protected…..now no one comments anymore. I never got that many comments but now—>NOTHING!! I still post, my sisters like to read my blog but they don’t have a xanga. The bad part is that they have not been able to read my blog lately b/c of the protected posts. oiy!
Just because nobody posts doesn’t mean that nobody reads them. I still post, but if my friends feel like they need to say something to me, they usually call me.
Also, not everyone posts online so that everyone will read it. Xanga is like a journal.. sometimes it feels good to get things out and vent.
That’s why I don’t post very often anymore. All my friends left, I rarely get comments, the people I get comments from usually have no idea what the heck I’m talking about.
I told myself I would continue to update because xanga is for me, but I was kidding myself.
Yes. That’s why I’ve stayed on xanga for years.
But if nobody was commenting, I’d find it easier and more excusable to be lazy and not post.
Not getting comments on my xanga doesn’t stop me from updating mine’s.
I would in fact keep posting. I do it because it’s something I like, it’s my outlet and who cares if no one reads/comments on it.
No one comments me anyway, except for the rare occasions my boyfriend comes on to update.
I don’t blog much any more because I feel like I don’t have much to say these days and therefore, the people who used to comment, don’t comment me on anything and I have given up trying to get them to comment.
I only blog occasionally to vent or share. And those meager attempts do not cultivate many comments so I blog even less.
It’s a vicious cycle.
yes.
i don’t get much comments.. but it doesn’t matter
it’s about recording bits and pieces of my life 
I started my Xanga as a way to journal, instead of a notebook, so whether I get comments or not doesn’t matter, but it’s through comments that I’ve developed some very good friendships with other Xangans, and a community of support and encouragement in areas of struggle.
It’s like asking if a rock band would play for no audience. And the answer is no. Without an audience, it seems rather pointless. It’s all about the feedback.
Yes (LOL I’m the opposite). Some like to write or like to communicate with the world … perhaps they are the introverts?
Yes, because my blog is mainly for myself too,lol, I want to find out how I was at a certain time in my life. I hope, as people have read some of my blog over the years, that they too can see I’m not as negative, dark and hopeless as I once was. I still have my days, but I believe I’m “healing”.
People get busy, and a lot of the time, I have nothing interesting to say, yet I keep posting here. So, yes.
I usually don’t post for other people, more just to get my ideas out there. It does dissappoint me sometimes that I think I wrote something really interesting and get no response
I will still continued to blog on Xanga even if I stopped getting comments from Xangans.
mmmm, good therapy! ieieieieieieieieieieieieieieie!
Definitely. I agree with Mean_Mistress on the first page. I post for me, and no one else. I only have one regular commenter.
I don’t blog much nowadays anyway… I’m think about getting back into it. A lot of times I just don’t have anything to say, or don’t have time. Because when I write, I try to make it perfect. Word it perfectly, make sure it’s grammatically correct, and that everything is spelled right. I try to make sure I say what I mean efficiently, but that’s hard when typing. You don’t hear inflection, see body language, etc that you have in a live conversation.
And doing all that is time-consuming.
of course, i post regardless whether i get comments or not…besides most of my posts are there for me anyway.
Yes, I don’t get that many now, and it doesn’t really matter. It’s just a place to get things off your chest and rant about the day. Doesn’t matter if someone else comments it or not.
I didn’t join Xanga for comments, so why would I quit because I don’t receive any? It’s always nice to find people that are interested in what you had to say and took the time to comment….but my xanga doesn’t live for other people to comment. I blog quite frequently through out the day. About pretty random and useless things, I highly doubt people are going to comment on everything. It wouldnt surprise me if someone subscribed and commented and slowly began to not respond at all simply because I post so much. I don’t really care lol.
I’m knew to xanga, so I have yet to post too much. But I already have received a decent amount of comments. Which is nice, but never really expected.
It’s still therapy.
i think comments are a way of knowing ppl give a crap abt ur life. which is nice. and encouraging.
ppl who say they write for themselves are lying. Umberto Eco in a Time interview (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1688458,00.html) said:
Do you find yourself conscious of readers while you write? Is
it possible for a writer to completely disregard readers while writing?
Mahtot Teka, ADDIS ABABA
All the authors who say they write for themselves are liars. Writing is
an act of communication, it’s an act of love, it’s something you do in
order to be understood.
A resounding YES. I live to blog.
I just wonder what happens to some of my comments that I leave on other people’s blogs.
i don’t get many comments (especially recently b/c of school aps and exams), but i know that people read my site once in a while (from comments and also b/c they subscribe). the whole reason i’m on xanga is b/c lots of my friends had it and it was cool because it’s a blog. Now, a lot less of my friends write in their xangas, but there are still a couple of them that write and read and comment.
and also it documents parts of your life. if absolutely no one read my blog, then i’d put up more emotional and private things, like one would in a diary. so there are uses either way. i maybe would not write so much in it though, if no one read it.
still, it’s a place to put thoughts and ponderings out
yah accha hai.
Yes, it just helps to get out my feelings.
Not many people comment anyway.
(Hey, if you’re reading this, you should comment my blog. Just saying.)
There for a long while I didn’t or I would only post once a month or so. But earlier this year I realized that I didn’t care whether someone was there to comment on them. It still feels great to post entries on here.