January 16, 2011
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Why Are you Still On Xanga?
I was talking to Roadlestaken the other day at the Houston Xanga meetup.
He asked questions like who are some of my favorite xangans. I mentioned some of my favorites over the last 6 years and I mentioned that many of my favorites had left (no offense against any of you).
He then asked me why I stayed on xanga.
I think it is a natural question. So many others have left for other blogging communities and people have drifted to Myspace and now to Facebook. We talked about how many of our original friends on xanga left.
Why have you stayed on xanga?
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since i don’t care about popularity, i love it here because i really do do a lot of journaling and i feel tons better after i write here. i also subscribe to a lot of graphic sites and get good graphics. i’ve made friends on here too, and they’re some of the most understanding people. the people here are exceptional, minus the trolls and ones who get off on wreaking havoc all over the place.
FIRST!
@brittany_7x - Oh, fuck you!
Because I can type faster than print when I’m in a mood!! And it’s different than FB- that’s moreso for people I know in reallife, whereas xanga you can meet people who understand x, y, or z. And there’s more interesting things to discuss here.
It’s THE only social network I have. I like it’s personalization, the closeness it’s members have within the Community. I like how it’s NOT like Facebook… which I am not a part of and never have been, nor will I ever be…
i think i stayed because xanga isnt the same as facebook or myspace, its got some personality in it from past bloggers, cheesey but true
atleast thats what i think
Because I’m awesome, that’s why!
I keep coming back cuz its where I learned about blogging.It’s funny,at one point,I got more comments on my FB from friends from Xanga I had added to FB than personal friends.You can meet some lasting friendships the way Xanga is set up and you can also meet some people you wish you had never met.Both though are good lesson teachers on how to act toward others and how to just let things go sometimes.
Because Xanga is basically my journal and it’s nice to get feedback from friends that are objective.
couse i like xanga
Old habits die hard.
I’m a stick-in-the-mud. I don‘t up and bail. Withdraw sometimes, yes. But I‘m a long-haul kinda guy. It grieves me when my ‘friends’ drift, no matter what site it is. I’ve formed relationships.
its the chicks
Because Xanga is less of a social network and more of a community. :3
you can’t blog/spill your feelings on facebook
there is no place like xanga. there is no place where i could talk to strangers about personal and relevant things and not feel like a creep about it.
It’s my blog first, and about the community second. Why leave something I love?
What? This isn’t Facebook? Where the heck am I? Oh gosh! This is just like hockey. Everybody leaves after the third quarter and I’m mad because they didn’t even have a half time show. I guess when they start sweeping the isles the fat lady sang and I was in the restroom.
There are things about Xanga that I am not thrilled about. But overall, I stay because it is a community. I have yet to find another blogging site that you can really interact with people in the comments.
But mostly because there are some pretty amazing people here. People to lift you up when you are having a rough day. People that understand your rants when you are upset. The fact that those same people understand they are rants and wont hold them against you or people you may have mentioned.
not exaclty sure. I figure some people have sorts of cliques sometimes.
It feels like home.
Because when I tried trolling in real-life, I was almost punched.
I’m one who left but now I’m back. While it is true that many Xangians I was close to have left there are still some here who I remember. I’m back because I miss some of my old friendships and want to renew them and I hope to make some new friends.
I don’t know. I left. I didn’t have time for this. I am on vacation this month and decided I needed to write and I am experiencing huge block and thought writing anything would help. And then the drama started and now it’s become entertainment. There’s also some nostalgia involved.
Xanga is a GREAT place! You can be loved and loathed for who you really are.
I don’t know. You never did tell us YOUR answer for why you stay though – share that. Please.
Xanga has been a place where i can just express my true feelings about people and not have to worry about them reading it. I have always liked it. For me this has also been an online diary and it just has become a part of my life. and I have to give you credit Dan because i enjoy reading your posts. posting everything to boobs and weird news stories that i never would have heard of otherwise. and then there is alway the thought invoking questions/post that make me think about things and take on a different perspective.
I’m still new and really do like most people so the stupidity doesn’t bug me anymore at least not often. I don’t know another place where you can blog and so many people read and comment. At least for now it’s still worth it to me to be here.
I have been on xanga since he fifth grade. Left for a little while then came back… Xanga has always been a personal outlet and escape from my messed up life when i was younger.
It was a way for me to make friends with people from far off places… lol a place to go to talk to people with similar feelings and support.
Because unlike the more popular Livejournal (which is mostly geared towards, well, journaling) and Blogspot (which is more about social networking), Xanga is one of he only blogging platforms geared towards writers who blog, rather than bloggers who just write whatever.
I also like that pretty much everything is available on a free account, whereas with most other platforms, the free accounts are only the bare-bones minimum with very little customizable features.
And, yes, the community is generally higher caliber than other platforms.
It’s like another home to me and my thoughts. And I’ve made great friends..and I’ve here since the beginning of xanga really. So why leave?
i’ve been on here for four years, the platform is easy to use, blogging is more geared towards interactions with others rather than just journaling.
Because Obama’s invisible forces have been trying to destroy me since I was in the military, and it’s the only way I can show my mental states and articulate that I have thought and can read.
I dont’ like it. I’d rather have a life, but I’ve been under constant threat for years. Even though they turned my amygdala switch off, my brain knows.
I’m just trying to appeal to the Prime Minister of Russia, get a few stem cells shot up into my brain and start over on a plot of land in some faraway village with my drunk companion. It’s taken a lot of work to get around them, but I think I’ve almost succeeded.
habit.
I refuse to do anything for them after that. After all that shit, Obama didn’t even acknowledge me, so he can fuck off.
I stay because I enjoy blogging and the friends I have made. Some of my closest friends I have met on here. I stay away from the “celebrities” and the drama and all that garbage. That’s not what blogging is about in my opinion…writing to gain popularity and then wasting that popularity to write about garbage topics. If you’re going to at least be a popular blogger…write about something that matters, something with a purpose.
It’s like, you’ve given me too many bad memories so I have to:
a.) kill myself to punish you
b.) leave to punish you
c.) try to kill them (I usually try to make them mad to think)
I’m an animal. I’m sick of being mistreated without sane reason. I could see destroying me so that I couldn’t rise to a high salary to make it more “fair.” I could see them forcing me to forfeit my educational benefits to a sibling due to mental illness. However, I cannot see them as doing everything and hitting me with some sort’of retard ray.
I was different, but a lot of people coming from the middle class have an unfair advantage. So you have to break a few things to keep us equal. But I was different.
Not that I am a retard, but they surely would. I was saying whoever thought of that was “special.”
I like to write. Plain & simple.
I stay because there isn’t really any place to write on facebook. I mean, there is the notes section but that doesn’t let you do anything. Besides, I have met some pretty cool people on here. And it doesn’t matter how long of a hiatus i take from xanga I know it’s always here for me
and besides, i was on xanga LOONNGG before I was on facebook..
Only for you Dan. You are Xanga.
B/c I like it! <3
I like Xanga. I’ve tried other blogging sites and I think Xanga is the best. There are a lot of nice people on here and I’ve made some great friends on here.
After reading the entry just before this one, I’m asking myself the very same thing….. Why?
It’s possible to get to know people on Xanga, and the very system facilitates this. On myspace, I always felt I was wandering in a country of strangers.
what was your answer?
i like it because no one i’ve met in real life knows that i have an account. well, not that i am aware of anyway! i also enjoy that there are so many people out there that have a lot to say.
boobs
I’m still here because of the hot cock.
Im so attached with XANGA. (“,)
Because it’s the most fun of the sites. You can’t exactly get on facebook and act like you can on Xanga.
Dominating thinspo and showing any girl who listens how extremely easy it is to build a supermodel body the healthy way!
Insanity.
I’ve “met” very interesting people here on Xanga. Sadly, too many have dropped out and I miss them. I find Xanga is the more adult online community without drifting off into XXX land. Even the younger Xangans seem to me usually more mature in their thinking and attitudes than the young folks on other community-minded sites. And that’s important to me.
I am also happy that Xanga hasn’t gone off the deep end with nonsensical apps. I don’t come here to create alternate-realities, zoos or farms, etc. I come here to share serious ideas and to read the serious thoughts and ideas of other adults.
The main reason I post at all anywhere is the Holy Spirit prompts me to share my life experiences in Christ Jesus with the world. He is even less concerned about how many visits to my posts are recorded than I am. So, for me it’s primarily a matter of obedience. Also, I am called to be His Ambassador. Often I am prompted to counsel or to encourage when I leave a comment. And when I post or comment here on Xanga I don’t get the feeling I have cast my pearls before swine as I sometimes do when I post on certain other places. And that usually holds true even when another Xangan disagrees with me.
Another reason I am still here on Xanga is I find a wonderful variety in the different ways people think and express themselves. I am entertained and enlightened by all of you.
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community? well not anymore. i don’t know. then again, i’m not as involved as i once was. /shrug
I just like Xanga better than most other blogging sites. I’ve only experimented with a couple of others, but so far I like the layout of this the most. What intrigues me more I feel like most of the Xangans post questions and stories that people are meant to respond to, it’s just not just site filled with meems and reblogs and just plain unoriginality.
i go back and forth, but xanga is the one where people write things i find interesting. and ask questions i want opinions on. and just generally are nice to me and bother to get to know other bloggers.
Darned if i know.
It has to be the Theologians Cafe
I stay because I paid for the lifetime. Just need to blog more.
Because every now and again something motivates me to, out of the blue.
Also because I’ve had enough over the years to know I can’t remember all of them at this point.
xanga is my journal and its more private than my facebook. facebook is more like crack while xanga is like my pot. haha…
It’s family!
I’m not entirely sure. I would like to know that list of Xangans you gave him though.
Its fun and I love the drama
Xanga got me through a really rough time in my life. I’ve made some wonderful real-life friends here, including you, Dan.
All my close friends in real life and I use it. It’s a way to keep in contact and know what’s going on in each other’s lives while we’re at different colleges. We just didn’t stop using it when it grew unpopular when myspace came along. It’s a lot more intimate for us than other social network sites although we use facebook as well.
I love my Xanga friends.
Just because I’ve been doing it for so many years, it’s hard to stop now. Even though the site has gone way downhill and if you actually want readership, it’s hard to get, I still default to Xanga because it seems most natural. And for writing that is personal or that I don’t necessarily want or command an audience, that’s perfect.
I have no idea. I guess because it’s unique from all the other social networks in a good way.
Because some people just won’t leave. :
Facebook “notes” don’t cut it for blogging. Plus, sometimes it’s way too personal to post. That’s why we have “real blogs” like Xanga to fall back on.
You know, honestly, I ask myself that very question sometimes. I guess part of it is because I wouldn’t want to close out those on here should they ever have need of me or want to get in touch with me and part of it because there may still be a reason to keep the old blog alive. I don’t post much these days. Not many are around to read it anyway. I don’t say that to guilt-trip anyone. Like I said, I don’t post much and don’t invest the time to cultivate new friendships in this community as I once did. That is no fault of anyone else, merely the way things go in life. Besides, I do still write things on here from time to time, and you never know when an old friend might need encouragement or when there might be something worth commenting on.
I have to finish what I started.
@SoapAndShampoo - In your case, it may well have devoured your soul haha
@Celestial_Teapot - LMAO, best comment EVER.
Well.. you, dan. Duh.
Oh and because I like to show my boobs.
I’m only here for the money, clearly.
P.S. You’re missing a “s” in my s/n up there haha
I used to be alone when I started here and I can be alone again.
Because I prefer Xanga over Facebook (I have tried many social and blogging sites) and Xanga is still for me the best.
I’m still on xanga because this is the only site where I remembered my password. I forgot my passwords and usernames for the other blogging sites.
I am here rather than FB because I don’t need to know every time someone’s dog takes a poop. Here there are real conversations and the only games are the ones we make up ourselves.
Because Tumblr is shit. (Even though I have one
)
Bc I been here since 2003 and I like writing in here. For myself. Not for my friends or anyone else.
What I write would be used against me by the people called “friends” on facebook. Myspace has almost no traffic from my “friends”, and there’s certain people I know I feel are okay to see it. Other than the few vagrants on this site, there’s no one “trolling” or being jerks. I write here more as a journal than as a forum. I get friend requests from strangers (yourself included) but I won’t add because we’re not really friends. There’s a certain intimacy I have with my actual friends here. I don’t mind strangers visiting either, but I’m not writing here to get attention and get front-paged. It’s just nice to see how others write or pose topics, while at the same time I can still have the security of having actual friends read certain posts.
The few times I did post on myspace, some people were either talking rudely or saw me differently. I don’t live in an ideal world where people know the multiple versions of the “real” me.
Don’t know. Maybe it’s just too hard for me to let go. *shrugs*
I guess I am just used to it. And I don’t want to make a new start somewhere else.
some nice community here
well i stay on xanga because i i am so special and i love to troll oh yeah and i got banned from myspace. can you find me?http://www.myspace.com/_summer
not sure yet, but at least i like several i know here, and they don’t blog anywhere else.
Woot I was born & raised in Houston! Now I live in NC for the next couple yrs though.
Anyway, I have been on and off xanga since the 7th or 8th grade, and I graduated HS in 2009, so I’ve been around awhile. I just like blogging, and xanga was always my fav site for it.Plus I use it a lot to vent, and no one I know in real life (that I know of) has a xanga. So I don’t gotta worry bout them seein it.
This is my anti-Facebook.
(Then again I still have my Myspace and Friendster sites.)
There are some great people here.
cause I need you
Strictly for the sex…..j/k. My Space fails, Facebook is evil, and I haven’t gotten around to Tumblr yet.
I’m not even sure. Probably because I’ve had it a long time so I’m kinda attached to it. And hardly anybody knows me on here, which is a plus.
I still come back from the Nostalgia of old blog sites. I don’t write as much as I want to, I keep saying I need to blog on Xanga today and many days don’t get around to it, but I try not to forget about it after years of having done so. I remember doing Livejournal, Deadjournal, Ujournal, and I finally settled on Xanga, because it was the best of the bunch. Now it’s a moment of Nostalgia that I don’t want to forget and I kind of like being the only one of my friends that still checks on it.
Because we’re a community. People on here are always here at your finest moments, and even at your dullesst moments. They don’t judge you for being you. Best of all, most of this people, you have never met, but they’re able to be there for you when you need them the most.
Because everywhere else, I feel like I can’t express myself without others taking what I have to say to the utmost extreme.
At least here I don’t have to give a shit about it.
I’ve had an off and on relationship with Xanga for years. I’m trying to be here more regularly rather than the once or twice a year it used to be. I made some great friends here on Xanga who saw me through some extremely horrible times and while many of them are gone now, I still feel like I can be a little more open than on other sites.
because I love getting feedback from people and sharing my thoughts because I’m one of those conceited people that thinks I actually have some pretty interesting things to say hahaha
Because I can write whatever is on my heart and I can “choose” whether I want it to be private(just for me) or I can share it with other people(who aren’t family&friends)and get “feedback”,sometimes positive,sometimes,negative.
I still have yet to find another online community that provides the level of flexibility and functionality that Xanga has.
Because nobody I know will ever find this place. If they did, I’d leave.
I am a creature of habit and you lose your readers when you skip from site to site.
I left for a long period of time. I loved Xanga before Myspace was the new social network. Met many friends on here and even met my, still, best friend on here. Recently we were reminiscing about the good old Xanga days and decided to come back to it. I honestly like the fact that most of my real life friends don’t use Xanga, gives me a place to bitch and not annoy them, haha.
I have a Facebook, but I can’t rant on there like I can here. I like reading all my other friends blogs (even though the majority of them aren’t even on Xanga, but Blogspot, Tumblr, or Celebuzz) and I’ve had no reason to change. This was my first blog site and so far my only. I’ve had no problems with it and I love the people on here. :] No reason to quit if I’m already in a good community. If my friends on the other sites want to read my blog they can and they can just comment on those sites. I’m not picky.
Yeah you can’t really blog on facebook or myspace even if you did no one would read it. I have joined other blog sites and they just don’t get any readership. Only on xanga can you write and be heard unless you are some sort of professional blogger and super popular. Even facebook is starting to loose popularity because people are ignoring each other on it. If I want to be ignored, I can just do that anywhere, I don’t want to have to go to facebook just to be ignored!
Btw, I wasn’t talking about your entry… someone else’s.
Xanga is like the first of all social networking sites in my opinion, everything came after… but don’t get me started with livejournal, there was a rivalry between these two sites. I’ve grown up here over 8 years… even before that I was aware about it but couldn’t register. Sometimes I have left but then came back and continued. I’ve seen myself grown through entries ever since I was a preteen and now I’m maturing into a lady. Xanga keeps true to it’s original colors, nothing much has changed except witnessing the range of people attracted to this weblog, it certainly is a community.
Well, I’ve had mine since 2003 (under nrb2233), and I’ve stayed because I like blogging and reading other people’s blogs. Facebook is a social network, but it’s not meant to be a blog site where you write about all of your details of your life (though you can if you want). I’m not “popular” on here and don’t really care… I just like being able to blog and read other blogs.
Other blogging sites feel lonely and weird. And I blog little enough as it is to bother starting somewhere else.
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I’ve always thought Xanga was awesome! I just wish I was more popular in it…
I think i’ve stayed on cause even though I have like not friends on here and no one reads my silly blogs, I still like having a place to just vent.
I’m still at xanga because this is where I’m most comfortable to blog. I love blogging and writing and I’ve tried many other blogging platforms but none makes me feels at home like Xanga does. Of cos I admit that Xanga can be really sucky, can’t do this can’t do that can’t support this can’t support that. But overall, I feel good blogging here and most strangers reading this are from the other side of the world I’m living in. I don’t have to worry much that I might bum onto them on the streets and they start judging me on what I blogged.
Because I’m a creature of habit and I’m not one to change with a fad.
@littlechef1 - yes!
Almost everyone I knew has moved from Xanga. I keep up with it because my father loves to read my posts. And also because I’ve met a lot of great people on here.
I first got my Xanga [well, my original one] when i was a sophomore in highschool… I’m 22 now & Graduated from College. It started off as a way to get around the blocks on the school computers to talk to each other, but then it was like oh wait… this is a journaling site type of thing isn’t it? [and yes I am now aware that it is a BLOG lol] and since then every teenage heart break and every misguided moment was typed about. it holds a goooood chunk of my life. and i don’t think i can replace it. I did move to myspace for a little… but always came back when important things went down and had to be written about. eventually i put all my posts in private but i kept them just to feel … as if i wouldn’t loose the memories. the comment from friends that i no longer speak to as much as i’d love to, and the thoughts and feelings that were very special to me even if for a brief moment in time.
and now I started playing with my Modified 365 and I figured… Flickr Is mostly for what are considered “real” photographers. Facebook is Full of people I KNOW which is a problem in itself (lol) and myspace is now dead. I Opened a blogger… and in two minutes i was like nope; Back to Xanga it is (:
the community is nicer, random comments aren’t hated (lol) unless they’re rude -___- but for the most part it’s nice to feel like you’re a part of SOMETHING… something big and small all at the same time…
and i DON’T know why but “Fame is Fleeting but the Internet is Forever” popper into my head as i was writing LOL… it’s from Phineas and Ferb [geek moment]
The people I’ve met here are the ones who keep me here.
Ange and Sarah…and the protected posting that Blogger doesn’t offer. (read: it’s my main form of private communication with my two best friends.)
simply cause I like xanga…:)
i actually came back to xanga to blog.. and then i found out all these sub-xanga blogs and i enjoy reading about other people’s problems a lot.. makes me feel super knowledgeable and lucky that i dont suffer from those problems
cuz.. it’s my first blog.. and i didn’t know where else to go:) but i noticed people are subscribed to many many other blogging sites too.
I outgrew Facebook. LOL.
I stayed with Xanga thru all this time because it’s where I can fully be myself, without anyone judging.. But of course, there is no one to judge since my Xanga is private – kinda like a diary
Reading these posts of Xanga is also very comforting.. Seeing how people are quite like me sometimes. Xanga is like a virtual home