August 25, 2010
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Xanga – Why Do We Stay?
Have you noticed how many people complain about xanga or say they are leaving? It is like a never ending cycle. And yet some of us just stay.
People criticize xanga and say it has not kept up with the times. Others say all the great writers have left xanga.Why do we stay?
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i stay bc i write about all of my feelings, and tumblr and blogspot whatever doesn’t let me do that and relate to other people so easily. i’m probably one of those emo bloggers… but it really helps me.
It’s my addiction, it’s my therapy, it makes me feel like I’m not alone.
I’ve never had devoted readers or anything. I stay because it helps me clear my head, and it’s easier for me to communicate through my keyboard.
Because I’m bored and have no life. Also, I don’t want to have to gain a bit of a readership again.
I still like Xanga.
I came to this site in 2002 when all people wrote about what was the stuff they did, the friends they saw, and the delicious treats they ate.
2010 Xanga is fine, in my opinion.
While a lot of good writers have left, I also keep discovering new writers and photographers who I like. I don’t care for the drama and stuff. I do wish the content in the front page can be more polished. But I like this little community that I’ve found and have learned a lot from them.
Some good writers have come and gone. So have some putzes.
We still have several fine writers.I stay because of my Xanga friends, and so I can have a safe place to post my drivel.
I like the people who I have met and it is a place I feel okay sharing my thoughts and so ons. I never felt so easy doing so anywhere else.
Community.
This has always been my home.
Good people still around.
^WUT WUT^
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too many niggers on myspace. too many pseudo-intellectuals on facebook. too many hipsters on tumblr.
oh, love the rape posts.
@deflat - lol wut?
Community.
Because I prefer intelligent feedback, close friends, and relative privacy. Xanga is just the right level of obscure-well known enough that we have a sizable community, but unknown enough that we don’t have a billion trolls, ad bots, and people from high school we never met bugging the crap out of us.
i stay because it’s a little bit crazy in a generally good way, and it’s kinda fluffy. i like that.
I stay because of the friends I’ve made here, and the fact that this is where my history is recorded, as it were. Why start over?
because of the X-Factor
Xanga has been my corner since middle school.
It’s how I organize my thoughts. It’s like writing a list and realizing whats missing in my life and what I’ve been doing wrong and right. It’s also the place to release steam when I’ve had words running through my head. Or to gush about something when I can’t stop talking about it.
I stay because of the people I know and love dearly.
The community is much better here than almost anywhere I’ve been on the internet, despite any “drama” crap. People really don’t wander to others’ sites and leave comments and things as much on any other blogging site I’ve been on. I mean sure, I don’t write for anyone other than myself really, but it’s nice to know I’m not totally alone. I don’t know, it’s hard to explain. I just love xanga, even through everything.
Even when no one’s reading my posts, I still feel much more accepted and welcome here than I do around a lot of people. I dunno why, but that’s how it’s been since middle school. During my hiatus, I really let stuff get bottled up and I just felt like crap. Being able to talk about my issues on here helps a lot. It helps even more that I’ve found more people like me. That’s why I don’t leave.
because it is home. It was the home that none of the other sites ever were for me.
I’ve stayed because I suffer from the delusion that you boring fucks will one day write about something other than abortion and religion.
People leave because of “drama” or “making it on their own”
I stay because of the community here that took like 6-8 years to make…
and is still growing
I’m familiar with the layout. If I knew LJ or Blogspot better, then I’d go there but I came to Xanga first, so…
I wouldn’t say all the great writers have left. Many of the writers that left weren’t that good. Entertaining, yes, but not great.
We’re very bored and sometimes there’s porn on here.
Because I’ve been here since middle school and it’s a perfect place to house my thoughts and I have great friends here? That’s why I stay..
it allows for the maintenance of “friendships” without really having to maintain them. a quasi-false sense of bondage.
Well, it’s kind of addictive.
Plus, there are SO many idiots on here.
It’s kind of amusing, you must say. The things people say…
and yeah I do notice that people say they’re going to leave, and never do. LOL.
I bet, and almost know it’s because they “can’t”
ADDICTIONNNNN.
Who gives a fuck and I’m a great writer, still here, fuck the ones that left, I look to the ones that stayed (see and correct any grammatical errors in this comment I’ll make a stew with your spleen, thymus, and thighs).
@ctaretz - Oh yeah I stay because I’m Xangified!
do you just time stamp this same post every 3 months?
It’s where I come to hide. It’s my solitude. It’s where I can read, write and enjoy friendships.
I stay because it’s an anonymous outlet for me and because I enjoy the community in which I get glimpses into the varying lives of others. Yes, I am sad when some stop blogging, but it is my choice to continue and as I love writing and reading, this is an ideal place. We criticize xanga because we’re human and that’s what we do-complain yet keep on keepin on with life.
People will always find SOMETHING to complain about. I stay because i love the xanga community! =]
Proof of the never-ending cycle: the never-ending recycling of this post.
Dan, you are a genius.
I think Xanga is a very nice blend of true blogging and social networking in a ‘relatively’ pleasant environment. I’ve made interesting and fascinating friends here (including you, Dan), and I don’t really think there’s anything quite like it. Facebook does not lend itself to true blogging.
Xanga is like a journal that we don’t want those who are close to us to read, but we want to let someone know, even if that person is a complete stranger. That’s why I blog.
People come and go. I love Xanga! I’ve deleted many sites, but I always rebuild immediately.
Other blog sites feel weird to use and aren’t much better as far as not-being-full-of-morons-who-can’t-write goes.
Tits, obviously.
Can’t remember. What did I say last time?
When I get comments, I feel a sense of belonging that I lack in the real world. There are also really nice people here… I love my Xanga friends <3
I stay on Xanga because I’ve used it since middle school and I know my way around. I think it’s really that simple. I used to love it when everyone I knew used it, but then all the real life people left for myspace and later facebook, so I got bored just posting to my friends.
When I made my own sites for public view in 2007 is when I first started disliking Xanga a little bit. I don’t like how people feel like need to go out of their way to find and insult people who might not have the same views at them or whatever. I think I liked Xanga best when it was just a personal site for personal purposes – but I also liked reading friendly and funny bloggers like Sam on the front page instead of boring stuff I don’t care about between two Xangans who think they’re really cool and “Xangalebrities” or “elite” or whatever they call themselves these days.
Honestly, I tried to get a tumblr and I can’t figure it out. So I think I stay on Xanga because of stupidity.
’cause xanga still fucking rocks everyone’s socks. some people just like to bitch.
Because it’d be no fun to derp anywhere else. We’d rather hurr and durr here than herp or derp in another setting.
Yeah and then half of them always come back anyway because they’re addicted. They typically do an eloquent “I’m leaving” post to gauge how hard their followers will beg them to stay. Then they vanish for a while and reemerge not long after, sometimes with a different user name. If I do recall, even you DanTheologian have gone through a few user names and even once defected to MySpace some years back before returning to Xanga.
I’m A Xanga addict. I can’t leave! I love to read, I love to write. But I am learning how to be more picky……..
It’s where my friends are even if it is online, see for a person like me that doesnt drive it’s a place where i can talk and express my feelings. and most of my friends live far in other states. I live in a small town on the outskirts of houston they don’t even know where I live..LOL..but I love xanga been here for 5 yrs with the same one..and it will never change..
because it’s fun!
Xanga is for people who have as much compassion as passion. I see much more importance in the former, it’s a prime fuel for the latter.
Why not?
What the hell. I’m rambling again. Xanga needs to rework how top blogs are picked to attract passionate writers back. Then we should be careful only to support those with real compassion. They want people to stop rec’ing posts that don’t fit a very high standard for literary skills. That’s bunk. People will always rec what hits an emotion that makes them think “right on”. I want others to see this. I don’t care about eloquence as much as the emotion and point in the post.
because I still believe in the self satisfaction of knowing I wrote a good blog and not needing the footprints or comments to tell me so.
Privacy. Xanga has the most flexibility when it comes to setting levels of privacy for my blog.
I stay because of the friends I’ve made through this site. There are people I’ve been reading (and who have been reading me) for YEARS now. It’s more personal than Facebook.
I stay because I love the people
Pandora’s box.
Despite all the awfulness that Xanga has regurgitated, there’s still…hope.
Because if I try to leave, I just miss you weirdos too much. You’re all like an addiction or something.
It’s all you Dan. Once you leave, it’s all over. You need to ask Xanga for a raise.
Because Xanga = love.
Been with Xanga since ’03.
Yeah, it’s changed, but whatever, sall good.
you got somewhere else you need to be??
I like the community and I’ve even met a few of them IRL!
this is the place I unpack my head…
I DO leave xanga sometimes, mostly to get away from the “Drama” it seems to be engulfed with… but somehow I always find my way back… mostly just to write and read other peoples things… (I’m nosy like that).
My wife writes here frequently. I like being able to have input and to support her, whether it’s a prop or arguing against idiots. There’s nothing tying me here besides her writing.
I stay because Xanga people are the best people on the web. I like it here.
I can’t really say that I have stayed, considering I’ve only had my xanga for a few months…but I’m here because I like to write, and that’s all. It’s an added bonus that it comes with a network of other writers to read from.
I stay because it is the one place where no one I know personally will ever read what I post.
I like the anonymity here.
I stay because I already have a film review blog on wordpress, and I’d like to keep the two journals as far apart from each other as possible. People who want to read about my thoughts on films don’t need to read about my personal life or anything else.
@deflat - LOL. WIN.
I’m attached to the people. And this is the only place in which I feel comfortable expressing myself. I have tumblr and blogspot. Neither of those does the trick.
@seedsower - is a good show! XD sorry couldnt resist
Because all the other sites I post my random neural firings on just don’t have the same feel as when I post them here…and I can engage in the occasional debate without the conversation descending to, “Nana-nana boo-boo…stick yer head in doo-doo” – rather, the folks here [mostly]attempt to engage in meaningful discourse.
That’s an interesting thought, and I have no good answer. I have been a guilty party when it comes to dogging this place out, yet this is probably my 4th attempt at having a page on here, lol. This time as a premium member!
@Jeremy_Sheer - I like that show too.
because i established a home base here and i don’t like tumblr, at all. it’s easiest and i know how to work the layouts.
I stay just because I like the layout of Xanga better than a lot of the other blogging sites I’ve tried. I mean maybe it’s partly because I grew up with Xanga, it was my first blogging site. But I mean a lot of the other blogging sites I’ve tried don’t have as many cool features as Xanga either.
I came here and stayed because I liked the easy interface. I didn’t come for any writer on the site. I pretty much don’t care what anyone else does because I’ve been here so long I don’t plan on going anywhere else.
I’m happy with how Xanga is. If others aren’t happy, let them go.
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I like here. Here can make me feel happy.
Funny
I don’t know.
I love Xanga. I have no intention of leaving anytime soon.
Because Xanga feels like home.. I love Xanga and Xangans.. They are like family to me.
The humans I interact with here. No other platform I’ve been through has it.
The community. I’ve blogged other places, but when I found xanga I felt at home. If and when I leave xanga, I wont blog anywhere else. but that won’t be anytime soon.
I’ve always liked the feeling of community Xanga has. I know I’m not a big participant, but I always felt like this site was more intimate than others. I don’t know if “intimate” is the right word, but it’s close enough. Despite its many flaws, I stay on Xanga because it still holds a candle over other blog sites.
Because it not as boring as Facebook.
When I get bored of the Internet, but still feel like being on it, I come on Xanga, and I read.
Boy do I love to read.
Or, if I have some random thing to say, but don’t feel like posting it anywhere else, I come here.
Boy do I love to… uhhh, idk.
i have friends and history here. peace, Al
Feedback.
To me, it feels as if Xanga is the only true blogging site these days. Xanga allows me to express what I think, feel without the need of an audience. It’s my stress-reliever. It’s my own little world.
Because I have the best friends here. It’s not the same on FB.
It’s not about staying or going. It’s about doing something for yourself. You can come and go as you please and you don’t need to seek the permission of others to leave. The Xanga door is always open.
By the way, I can see your sitemeter. You are doing some kind surveying for Xanga, aren’t you?
I stay because I need somewhere to let all my thoughts out.
It’s the only site that lets me friend and subscribe to other people’s blogs. That and I have some friends here who write great stuff. And I don’t want to have to start over.
I haven’t been here very long… like a lot of the others, but I stay because this is the only place to let my true feelings out. It’s my therapy, I guess you could say. I don’t have anybody in real life to let it all out to. It’s extremely hard for me to open up to any of my rl friends. I don’t know why, it just is. I admit…. I am not a great writer, but I simply enjoy ‘letting it all out’ on here. So thank you, Xanga!!!!!!!….. or anybody who cares to read my bs!!!! =)
We stay because Xanga is great. Sure we complain, but we would complain no matter what Xanga was like. There will always be room for improvement in anything. We take the best things in our lives for granted. That’s our nature as humans. Wish I knew why.
Just because other people start leaving doesn’t mean we all have to leave. We’re not in for the “fad”, you know (like some people on fb and tumblr are).
Like others have stated, I stay for the community & relative privacy. Simple.
It’s less expensive than digital cable or appointments with your therapist. And the friends that I’ve made here are pretty fantastic as well.
Because other blogging sites suck.
I’ve tried other blogging sites, but I think Xanga is the best. Sure, there are some jerks on here, some people complain, or leave. But, that is on every website, you will find drama and all that wherever you go.
I actually assumed it is the same reason I do any of the habitual things I tend to do, and I don’t even pretend to know what that reason could be.
My guess has always been fear of “change” or comfort in familiarity if they are not the same thing…
Then again I often think I am the only person who writes to purge myself and process my own thinking, therefore I am my only audience and I am the only person I write to.
Yes, for years I was telling people and thinking I was writing to no one but I’ve recently come to realize that I am really writing for myself and I think it is a way around some type of learning disability that I have never been tested for…
but basically… I never expected anyone to read this anyhow… I’ve been writing in a journal since I was 16 so when the blog came about, it saved me the chore of scanning everything into the computer, which was my first thought… so i just converted journal to blog…
i see it as mental shitting and it seems to do me a world of good… i never thought what a reader would think…
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also, i guess I stay because I don’t go many other places… and I have tried other places before and having more than one or two places is just too schitzo for me….
The people.
I stay because Xanga is the only place most of my writing is saved. I don’t want to lose any of that so I stick around. Besides, I have fun here.
I am comfortable here
cuddlesome.
I definitely agree with what other people have said.
Xanga is my second home, has been so for four years now. It’s like a friend that I know will ALWAYS be there for me. Xanga will ALWAYS be my safeguard, all my rants and laments are documented on here – my blog is definitely something I can’t live without. I’ll be on Xanga for the years to come!
oh and I also agree with how other blog sites suck, they really do.
It’s not fussy. It’s not stuffy. It’s comfortable. It’s home.
I stay because Xanga is more of a community than a lot of other places. I think the constant complaining about Xanga just proves this. It’s not just a website.
I feel like we’re a family. I have people on here who I absolutely love and they allow me to drain my brain and then they talk me through all my mental instability. I mean, you can’t pay for lovin’ like we get here. I used to be on Tumblr and it just isn’t the same — there is a sense of community here like no other.
I stay because no matter who stays or leaves I always tend to make a few good friends on here. Every few months I meet some cool new people. Other than that my blog itself is the best personal outlet I have and the only way I can really express myself freely.
Good question. I like a lot of people on here, but the 90% of the rest of xanga I don’t like, can’t stand, or possibly even hate and loathe.
If they had a proper block button that made it so we can’t see those people ever again, anywhere, that’d probably be better for me.
I stay because I like to write. Don’t have the stuff to amuse millions so if one or two people comment they liked my blog. I get a natural high from that. It’s enough. Smart enough to know It isn’t going anywhere.
It’s an outlet that provides feedback on our thoughts. …that’s why I stick around, anyway.
I leave and come back. I miss the attention when I leave so I always come back.
I think writing on here has helped me…stabilize my mind. It’s interesting to hear other people’s opinions in their blogs, so I like the current Xanga….However, I only started in February, so I’m still a noob…
Because of its idiosyncrasies and the sense of community.
Community… I feel closer to some Xangans on here than I do most real-life people. (Plus, I met my current boyfriend through Xanga.) What’s not to love?
I don’t criticize xanga. I stay b/c I don’t know most of the people I became friends with on xanga, so there is a very little chance that I’ll run into them. That and whatever I put isn’t THAT bad so it’s not like its going to come back and haunt me for the rest of my life.
yea.. I guess it’s for people with no lives but people read it anyway.
I joined back when it was the craze but then left when FB came along. I have recently discovered my love for blogging and have came back. Even though Xanga has not kept up with the times and can be complicated to use at times, it has some features that cannot be found on other blog sites.
i like it. its a place for secrets to share ^-^
I don’t really know of anything else…this is where my girlfriend writes once in a blue moon..uhh sometimes people still write some interesting stuff here.
All I got lol.
Because xanga has helped me so much and I’ve met some amazing people here.
because i paid $100 for it and imma use it dammit. lol. that and the xanga community of my subscribers and people i subscribe to are much more.. controlled and enjoyable than of other blog sites out there.
I’m a bonder~
Hopping around~ in any arena in life~ only produces more discontentment~ and an inability to connect in a healthy way.
Xanga’s stuck with this yee-haw.
Because it’s just part of my daily routine now.
I’ll never abandon you, Xanga. ♥
addictions are hard to break.
….xanga isn’t like anywhere else. i don’t think i’ll ever leave. like some of the commenters above me, community and the “its my home” feeling help….that and, writing here is like a release…relief; life. <—-dramatic
but true
what’s not to like…I am on many blog sites at least 6…but I think Xanga is the easiest to post on and share with other folks…
I’m just sadistic.
Because I paid for lifetime and I’m getting that or ’til my one time payment is equivalent to cents per year blogging. Git off mah lawn!!!
I stay because I have been blogging on here for almost 6 full years. I’d hate to say goodbye to all the memories. I have made friends on here over there years who have come and gone, but I still enjoy visiting with the ones who are still around. In a month, I’ll be actually meeting two of them. Say what you want, but I still like Xanga and I dont’ see it dying anytime soon. It’s in a constant state of change.
I stay because it’s the easiest place to find readers, and because I really like it. Sure, there are some things I’d change, but it’s still a cool place
I’ve had no complaints nor have I ever been affected by drama in the entire 8 years I’ve been on Xanga. The dramatic posts I see on Xanga’s homepage puzzle me, to be honest. Of course, I also have a protected blog and write for me, not for anyone else.
Because of the people, I think. You can talk about leaving because things annoy you all you want, but it doesn’t change the fact that you have a network of people who know tons about you and have provided you with support. You can say you’ll leave all you want, but do you really want to leave those people behind?
Nostalgia. I have had my xanga forever.
The front page is loaded with drama, controversy, and bait/switch blogs. I’m sick of it, and it’s almost to the point where I’ve become sick of Xanga. So much has changed over the years, and at this rate all the good things about Xanga will be gone before we know it. Good writers are leaving, serious bloggers are posting less often, and Theo’s Cafe is at the top of the front page at least once every day. But from what I’ve seen, each change has been a victory for a lot of people, at first, but over time the same people who pushed for the change end up rallying for it’s demise. Be careful what you wish for, as they say. If you’re willing enough to put up with how things work around here to stay, then by all means do so. If you can no longer stand the sight of it, however, step down and move on, because after six years of membership I believe I can safely say that Xanga will keep right on evolving from good to bad to worse and back again. The way I see it, Xanga should quit trying to be the most popular social networking site on the internet and start projecting itself as the online community it claims to be. Xangans are a group of people, a race of internet users, if you will, who participate in everything the internet has to offer just the same as anyone else, but unlike the rest of the world we have ourselves a meeting place out and away from Facebook, Myspace, Blogger, Twitter and the like. A place where we can take off the masks we wear in public and elsewhere on the internet, and just be ourselves. That’s the Xanga I signed up for. I say we all do whatever it takes to bring that Xanga back.
I just keep it going because I like having something I can go back and read a year or two from now and remember everything (in more detail than I would normally lol). I thought of switching to blogger or something like that..but I’ve been writing on here for quite awhile now, so it’s hard to just switch.
I’ve had my Xanga since elementary (5th grade)/middle school.. and I let my feelings out on here. It just has so many memories I can’t let go of. I just can’t get used to recent blogsites like Tumblr or Blogspot. I kick it old school.
I love Xanga. I can write my personal thoughts and not worry about others opinions, because most of us are on here for the same reason: to express our thoughts freely. Plus I’ve been with it since like sixth grade. I love how I look back and see how I’ve changed.
It’s my journal where I can express my feelings, talk about my day, rant and destress, note on things to remember, reflect back on past actions, and just simply express who I am. It’s also a way my friends and I update each other about our lives. Plus, this is way better than twitter and facebook, since we really get to know someone through their blogs.
i like reading what people have to say… as long as they’re not complaining about xanga or talking crap about another writer, then i actually enjoy it.
yes, community. xanga people seem nice.
plus it’s not the same publicity as other blog sites, so it feels more like a personal journal.
home since 2004.
and most of what other people said.
plus i still get to view/use it in mostly “old version”
I like it here. Haters gonna hate!
Because it helps me to decipher between truth and non-truth through the knowledge of others.
I think several people above said it—It’s a nice release…and though I [think I] only have a few readers, it’s nice to look back on some of the posts and think about those times. I, too, bottle up my thoughts and I let some out (probably less than I used to, feeling like I can’t say what’s on my mind as poignant or insightful as I’d like)…I’ve had my xanga since high school, and I hope I continue to use it…Still working on the community bit, slowly but surely…
I stay because I feel the most comfortable here. I felt isolated on LiveJournal. No matter how many groups I joined, it felt like I was talking to myself. With Xanga, I’ve had time to enjoy being alone to express and getting the feedback. It has helped me to write for myself and to better express my points. The same goes for Wordrpess. Something about that site felt just as lonely as LJ. Xanga is way different. It has an “indie” feel to it.
I was here and then I left and now I am back again. For a while the changes annoyed me, but I finally adjusted, I tried other ones recently and I just did not like it too much. One of the features is that it is easy to make my writing private or public with ease.
A few years ago (2007) my mother passed away, she had her own blog on here and loved Xanga. We told her readers that she had died and the comments came rolling in! My mom would have loved all the comments, she loved writing comments and receiving them from her Xanga friends.
I am happy and satisfied with my place in xanga land. People always complain. Who cares. It’s like a barking dog, eventually it stops barking.
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I seem to remember a few years ago when you said you were leaving? imagine my surprise when I saw you were blogging upon my return. umm. If people didn’t like xanga they would go somewhere else, and they have. I came back.
I stay because it gives you that feeling you get when you find one of those cafés in hidden streets that no body knew about and you go inside and it’s a whole different world and then for the slightest of a moment, you feel like your hope in mankind is renewed…
And because people (most) won’t think you’re a total moron just because you happened to write ‘affect’ when you really meant ‘effect’
because it’s an escapism.
More blogging about Xanga = more traffic to your site. This is why they ended up staying.
I feel like everything I do on Facebook, Tumblr, and pretty much everywhere else is for an audience. On Xanga, I can write as if there were no audience.
Because of you!
cause there is no place else to go.
myspace sucks.facebook and twitter have character limits.
xanga has:customizationa good community orientation
and it used to have a WYSIWYG editor… wish they didn’t take it out.
@TheThinkingPerson - So true!
Never had problems WITH Xanga… but I have had problems with PEOPLE who read my blogs.
I could never leave this place. Heck, I made commitment to lifetime on this thing!! I am not gonna waste my money for nothing!
But honestly, Xanga have no faults that I could name. I love Xanga and I always will. If I could; I would marry to it! [[ though we have had seperation for one year. But we are back together!! ]]
People who whined and bitch about the faults of Xanga; BOO to YOU! Move on, find something else. Life is still going, go follow that one.
I am not going anywhere Bitch and you can’t make me!!!!!!!!! Huh? Oh sorry Dan, I was venting and I thought that you were trying to reverse psychol-igize on me..
Because Xanga Was There When I Needed It, Through The Hard Times. Xanga Is More Serious Than Other Blog Sites…For Example My Tumblr Is Just Filled With Funny Junk. Nothing Serious Or Meaningful.
I stay because I love the people.
Because of you.
hmmm Good question! I never threaten to leave like some do. Drama drama drama is why I stay LOL
why leave?
It is an actual closed society, insofar as you need to sign up and maybe even make friends to see parts of what’s out there. I doubt there’s any real value of privacy at the top, and I wonder just how much data the owners of sites like these sell to corporations/government, but at least you can lock your site to the public view and live in the (perhaps) illusion that what you write is private.
Also, a definitive advantage over facebook is that you can have your own user name and, hence and otherwise, remain relatively private to most..facebook trying to mandate that you use “a real name” is an idiotic thing for an online community to do when many of its members probably wish to remain anonymous to outsiders.
Because I like writing and I feel comfortable here.
it’s my anti-drug.
I love it here! Because I like using my own banners and backgrounds. When you have a place that is yours you want it to look like its yours not like a million other sites! I have some friends here too.
Mine is not a high traffic site but I love it anyway- those that do come by are really cool.
When I log in, it still asks me to get the “new” Customizable Home Page – but the one I have works great. Like the old saying- if it’s not broken- don’t fix it!
Click Xanga three times and say – “there’s no place like home. there’s no place like home!” LOL
@Iobot - you said it.
Free therapy and advice!
I stay because I can tell Xanga anything that I want to whether anyone reads it or not.
xanga is like home. You leave for college, you go on vacation, you get a job in the big city; no matter where you go, you can always come home.
Yeah most of the great writers have gone. I am the only one who stayed. hehehe. Facebook allows notes to be posted so the blog post can be made there and with twitter app with one click you twittered too. So now I post my note there and twitter. I also make my post here. Most of my subscribers here in xanga haven’t visited xanga for more than a year. They were really good poets, short story writers and good essayists. Still let me tell ya, the community here is more matured. But let me warn, all people will eventually move to facebook unless xanga modernize the software and makes this more accessible to mobile devices. Its just that the good artists always look for good audience. That’s all.
Its like when people threatened to delete their facebooks or myspaces.
what else is there? (really, coz i have no idea)
i got used to the way xanga works.. can’t use other blog system anymore.. i don’t even know how to subscribe to blogs from blogger.com, unlike the ones i get from xanga automated email system..
I like the community, and have used it for the 6 years I’ve been in the blogosphere. It’d be a shame to start over now.
Because it is a place where I can work out my thoughts and what is going on in my life.
Because I can feel a connection with other individuals on it.
Because I get practice in how to deal effectively with people who have less than ideal social skills.
Because it makes me think.
Then again, my site and opinions are not under the scrutiny of others. Which is how I like it. And then again, I personally have never complained about xanga as a whole.
It feels like home.
I’ve gone a couple/few months without logging in. Mostly because I wasn’t getting any traffic/comments from my Xanga “friends” and it was kinda depressing. So I just stopped posting & then stopped logging in.
I “stay” because I have blog/journal posts from almost 5 years ago – before I became a mom.
That is priceless to me to read my thoughts & happenings from way back when. And it’s too much work (as well as paper, ink, space for all the paper, then privacy issues once it’s on paper) to just print them all out & then delete the site. Though I should little by little in case anything were to happen to Xanga or anything.