January 11, 2013
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Xanga Suicide
I was reading a post by Light Blue Fables where she mentioned she was thinking about shutting her xanga site down.
That would make me sad. I shut down twice and it felt like I killed a friend. You never really connect back with everyone.It is funny because back in the old days, it felt like everyone had shut down at one time or another.Have you ever thought of shutting down your xanga site?
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I have shutdown 2 or 3 times. I also have a blog from jr high out there somewhere. I just can’t remember it.
NEVER!!!!!!!
I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately. Too many stalkers 0_o
ive done it.
I done it. Especially those deepest darkest secrets. And so when I wake up to a day, I realized they’re no longer in secrecy because they’re on Xanga.
Then I kept them back to where secrets should be kept. That feeling of both getting it un-secret on Xanga and back again is awesome-
Not really. I just figured at some point we’d just part ways but I wouldn’t permanently kill it off.
Nope. Even if I left I’d never shut down my site.
I shut down my old one a long time ago, mostly out of embarrassment from middle school blog entries.
Never. I like it here.
Never thought about it for this main blog, but I have closed down two very minor blogs because I never used them.
No I’d be more likely to just leave but keep the account. Maybe if I went a year or so without logging into it I would consider shutting it down
Not ever. But I do download my archives every now and then, just in case.
Yeah once, but that’s cause I was getting cast for a TV show and they were checking all of my internet personas.
I’ve left a few times, but I’ve never shut down my account. I’ve deleted all of my entries a couple times though.
Sometimes, but I always come back
I’ve never shut it down, but I’ve been MIA before…for…years…
Actually just came back after a several year hiatus. And I disagree if anything I’m enjoying xanga more than ever before!
I’ve had a hiatus or two, but never considered shutting down.
I had considered it at one point because I wasn’t using it as much, but I don’t think I ever will.
I’ve never thought of shutting down. Who is Hisa DangAe?
Over my 9 years of xanga I have considered it but never ever done it… It is so much easier to go silent and then come back when you feel like it.
Thought about it, never done it. I never have anything special to blog about, but I’ll probably always keep this site.
I shut down one. My other “old” one is still active but mostly private. This one? NEVER!
i was forced to once by my mother to “protect me” when my uncle somehow got his hands on it and sent some of my blogs to EVERYONe in my family (cousins, parents, aunts, uncles, extended family). it was a REALLY rough time for me.
After 9 years, only once when people from school got onto it and really embarrassed me. Badly. Since then though I’ve made it friends only.
So many years. Still the same. aww yeeeah.
As you know, I just got back from having done that.
No, but you know what I do think about? Al Roker shitting himself.
I have thought about it before, but life on xanga is too worth living I guess.
I have had multiple accounts, and I have committed suicide once, and I regret it. Many have done the same, and I miss them. We joined the same time, and I hadn’t stumbled upon your site until 3 years later. You’re a good writer, and I enjoy reading what you have to say. Do you try to connect with them via facebook?
I’ve thought about it, but… I won’t.
I shut down the first site as it was discovered by a family member—I am now on Friend’s Lock.
I also had to change my user name for the same reason.
I love Xanga as an old guy—it really is my social network.
frank
Yes.
Nope but I have people try to shut me down. Thank God they failed and Xanga refused to do it for them….I am going to be writing/copying here until the day I die. And if I can I will continue from beyond the grave too…lol…
Dear Dan,
Are you KIDDING?Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool
I have been here since 2003, and seen entire generations come and go. Old memories, faint trickles of fond thoughts, associated with this friend or that friend, now but dust, scattered, as they for one reason or another have all left. I am a die hard Xangan, it even says Life next to my name, because that is how long I am here for. Life. And that is what I am here for, Life.
THERE’S A SHUTDOWN BUTTON?!?!
I think about it, but like Facebook, I just keep coming back.
nope. I’m too new to already want to shut down. The past couple months have been enjoyable meeting people, reading and sharing.
I have had this site since the beginning. The most I would ever do would be to protect or privatize all my posts and just leave. I would never want to delete it.
I only joined early last year and it has taken awhile to get a circle together. When I wasn’t involved, the site seemed to be a void…..if I get back to that spot anytime again I will exit stage left…..maybe hiatus…maybe shutdown….I never repeat the past….just have to cross that bridge when I git to it!
@Mikke3vArt - Oh my god, me too!! That is why I shut down fading_roses19
I’ve thought of it a lot. Instead I just make everything I don’t want to share private. That way I continue to write, and couldn’t care less if I’m not in the Xanga “in crowd” just like highschool, and I got over that a long time ago. what I do now is for me, and the few who come and go and actualy enjoy it. I don’t even get trolls LOL of course if attitudes show up I block, no matter how many times it takes. It’s not FB thank God with 5000 friends I don’t ever get to know. I still have readers from 2004 who talk with me. I’ve had close to 50,000 visitors over the years now, and readers in almost every country in the world…. whom I have taken the opportunity to get to know on some level….. not too bad IMHO
The thought has never crossed my mind in a serious manner. I won’t be running for any public offices any time soon… lol
done it and i wish i hadn’t.
Nah, I’d get too emotional.
Not yet. I mean, I still enjoy reading a post or two every now and then. I may not blog regularly but when I open my Xanga account, I see to it that I read some of my friends’ blogs.
I shut down 4 times… Xenosbios, XenosbioZ, Quasaron, and Cavios were my old names lol
never understood why people need to state that they’re leaving. did it, came back, confused the hell out of everyone
Thought of it, but figured I ought to keep on with it….and so I have!!!
I have shut my site down several times and come back and started over again. I regretted acting out in emotion both times I shut it down.
Never. this is the one place where i can go and actually say what is on my mind without the worry of someone i dont want finding it. It’s an escape i am fond of.
not to change the subject, but all the long term xangans need to remember that all their years of hard work and LIFE poured out on these pages will disappear in a heartbeat forever if something ever happened to xanga. premium, even $4 for one month (or 4,000 credits), would allow you to archive all your posts from the beginning of your xanga account.
Yes until I got the lifetime membership…. now I can’t because I’m invested in it lol…
I have several times. No regrets. I would not shut down this account though.
Pirates care not for the affairs of mortals.
I shut down my old site because I didn’t have enough credits to change my name and I didn’t really want to hold onto everything I had posted. I was bummed about leaving all the friends on there but I had a post out for a few days with my new name and those who wanted to add me could. Sometimes you just need a fresh slate.
No, but I did decide to put my Xanga on sign-in-lock
Many shut down their sites … but like moths to a flame, they nearly always come back.
Nope, Xanga has shut a blog of mine down though, thug lyfe ain’t easy.
nope
Not as often as I think about shutting down my facebook account.
I think about never closing what I have opened :p
NO!!! If I did that, I could not receive all the nudie pics you boys send me.
Leaving indefinitely, yes, but not shutting down. I’ve written too much. Every now and again, I like to look back at what I’ve written and reflect on what I’ve learned since then. I don’t believe that I will be leaving any time soon. I wish so many people hadn’t jumped ship a few years ago. There are many blogs that I miss reading.
@Kellsbella - lol
Thinking about it now, cuz I’m feeling kinda pissy toward others around here…
This is my second. I had to shut down the first because of a stalker/hacker
I have deleted at least 50 premium sites…three were Lifetime sites. Holy crap!!!
No, I haven’t actually. I never wanted to back in the day, I just didn’t have a computer for a while and lost touch. And this time around, its only been about 7 months and everything is well.
Ah, dang it… I just started one and almost got the hang of things… I hope I don’t shut down!! lol.
I don’t understand why people wouldn’t just stop using their account instead of closing it.
No this is my therapy. I have also made a lot of friends on here that I want to keep in contact with. This is the one place I can get constructive criticism about issues going on in my life and not be judged. I think I am probably a lifer.
I started making all posts protected or private years ago. No need to shut down. It’d be nice if we could backtrack and make all posts protected or private in bulk, though.
I think, my xanga site will still be there when I’m already gone
Cheers, Michel
i had another xanga site before this one in which i posted lots mainly since freshman year in high school, can’t remember my account info no more, sucks i can’t remember the info. oh well!
@smorales85 - im sorry to hear that
I’ve done it a couple times and it is alright
I think it’s ok to start over again and maybe it should be done about every 5 yrs or so
I have a premium membership, so I think I’m a little obligated. Sure, I could drop it, but I have tons of uses for the 10 GB of photo storage. I basically have my artistic timeline dating all the way back to 2002. I could easily jump ship to another website and upload images, but… I’m lazy.
Secondly, there’s sentimental value to my Xanga account. All the weblogs over the years, the growth, the friendships, the heartbreaks—essentially time. It’s rather difficult letting go of that investment.
I’m glad you’re still on here. Most of the folks I befriended have move on to other websites and social networks (some disappeared like smoke). I did the same thing, but I always seem to come back to the House of X.
Blogs shouldn’t go the way of the dinosaur.
it would break my heart knowing if I shut down my Xanga just because I rarely write on here someone would off themselves and and i would feel so guility
I’ve thought about it. It’s not like I have a wide readership. I mainly just post for myself.
I shut down Pink_TeaCups… I don’t really regret it that much.
Just starting out so no….
sure sometimes
nope
It seems to me that shutting down your site, but still being here with a new name? Is fake. You might tell people who you are – but I feel like, in life we grow and and move on but our history is still our history. It’s our story. You can’t and shouldn’t delete it, even if you aren’t proud of it or aren’t the same anymore. It was your journey to who you are now. So man up and be yourself. All of yourself. And stop pretending you never made a mistake or never changed.
Nope, but I’ve only been here for like four months now. Time flies when you’re having fun!!!
@firetyger - same, I left before and I often take breaks from xanga but i wouldn’t shut it down. its a place i use to keep memories and thoughts. :/
I can’t give it up…I keep using it as a time line to see what I was doing in 2002 onward. I just don’t blog as much as I used to but I am still around. Most other blogging friends however-are gone now.
Yes, I thought about it. I hadn’t blogged in ages, when I used to blog almost daily. I felt the need the other day. It’s cathartic. I have an account somewhere else but I don’t use it.
PS – It has been so long I have lost most of my readers and most of those I subscribed to don’t blog anymore!
Nah, no one I know IRL is on here anymore and even if they were it’s not like I have anything to hide. I don’t mess with any other social networking anymore and I have too many years of history on here. I’ve known too many people that have shut down/disappeared. It happens, but I won’t do it.
Nope. Never. I’ve gone on a long hiatus, but I always come back. Xanga has been a journal of sorts for me in the past, so I do like to keep it to re-read old posts to reflect on my personal growth and changes. Plus, I’ve made some awesome friends here. I’m sure they’d miss me pestering them if I leave. ;P
nah
I’ve contemplated Xanga-Suicide numerous times in the past
yet I’m still here.
yes because i thought my blogs were not what others wanted to hear about or at least comment about.Then again its a site were others leave some good cooments and some dont even care to comment on.So yea i have thought about it and never closed my account.
No, as it is the closest to God iv’e never been..but iv’e had temptations..
no i have not thout about shut down my two acount on xanga at all i belive that why some do is people stop coment on ther site and other one is wend thead take time onother blog on her most people do not respone to the peole at all but we got some that reply back o the bloge thead help keap xanga going
I’ve considered it.
I have never want to shut down any social site. The one I was on, said they were going to discontinue the blog part, but as of now it is still there. Never shut a site down because you don’t get everyone back. If your tired of doing the site, just take a break. Bro. Doc
I shut my first site down, due to the stress of watching my wife decline in 2010. This site is more resilient and I will keep it going.
I think I shut down twice or three times, but xanga is awesome, and it’s hard not to come back to here =]
Shutting down your site seems emotional and impulsive.
yeah, there was once a time I thought of shutting it but I’m glad I didn’t. However I did open and shut down Open Diary several times already.
Xanga is still better~!
never crossed my mind
Never. It’s here to stay.
nope.