June 9, 2013
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Sharing Your Feelings on Xanga
I notice that some people mention that they have shared things on xanga that they have never shared with their friends in real life.
I imagine it is easier for some people to share online than it is to share with someone who is looking at them face to face.Have you shared too much on xanga?
Comments (46)
Your posts kill me sometimes. In an amusing laughs-and-shakes-head-as-I-walk-away kind of way.
Oh sure. But I draw the line at recounting my experiences with the toilet.
I think there was only one time I felt like I’d said too much and deleted a post. A couple of times I edited to remove a sentence or a paragraph. Most of the time I try to be very aware of what I’m writing and who might read it.
I think your next post should be called “Liking Orgasms”
Oh hell yeah
While there are a few things I’ve shared here that people IRL, including my family, don’t know, there are still a large number of things that I have kept strictly to myself.
Nope. I pretty much share just about everything with just about anyone. I’m an oversharer by nature, I suppose.
Meh. Maybe, but I don’t lie and I don’t like falsities, so if someone were to ask me a question, I would give them the answer. I like to think of my blogs that “share too much” to just forego the question.
Yea, probably so!!
This is why I think anonymous posts on site like ESPN and Netscape should use real full names so that the people saying crap will be known by all.
I’ve said something that others have unfortunately drawn false implications from. And I was just making a point. It wasn’t really about personal history though.
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
If I was face-to-face with a Tyger, would I really be having that conversation?
Once upon a time, yes, until the school authorities keep an eye on what students and teachers do on Xanga, stopped to share private things here ~~ don’t want to get a demerit~
With the number of friends I have in real life (I cannot remember the last time I seen any of them) the thing is most of my friends are now getting towards 30, like myself.
Most are in employment, some are finding it hard.
I share what I want to online and with friends. Family tend to know more. even my employment advisor he knows one or two things now.
I always share too much on xanga. Few real people that are part of my life know about my xanga. But everything I share on xanga, aren’t thoughts I would hold back, especially if asked, but the thing is people don’t ask and I like to talk. At the same time, I enjoy the anonymity and reintroducing myself.
Girls love to share and bare.
Boys love to leer and cheer.
I think I could have shared more. I have never written anything I feel ashamed about. Sometimes I hide messages in my messages for those who know how to decipher between the lines.
Of course I have.
For sure. The anonymity and group therapy aspects of Xanga give me incentive to share my most private thoughts.
I have but I’m much more comfortable to share it with the people I’m really close with IRL.
way too much! Things I don’t even share with my family
I might, but I don’t regret anything I’ve said on here. You guys are as much, or even more my friends than the people IRL. I often form closer bonds with people I met online than I do in real life. I even met my true love online.
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I don’t think I have over shared my feelings on Xanga. I am careful about what I say…
yes,I think I’m being witty and clever and I make jokes and sometimes people don’t think I’m as funny as I think I am and I have to apologize.
Probably, but being so open on xanga helped me to be open in my day to day life.
Too much? No. I don’t suppose so. I went the other way with it. I left a lot out. I like to exchange ideas and opinions and discuss the world around me. Never felt comfortable discussing specific details of my own personal life. I guess I’ve always felt that I don’t live a life worth blogging about.
I’ve shared more about my feelings on here than I do in real life, especially this past year after life got so rough. I’m grateful I could do it here and more grateful for the friends who helped me just by caring. <3
I share all kinds of things that I’m not sure I would easily share with other people on a network such as FB… I feel like the coziness of Xanga lies partially in the fact that (for me, at least), the people that can and do read my stuff WANT to read my stuff.
nothing I wouldn’t tell my friends in “real” life, no way
oh sure. i got quite emotional in my youth and have set many a post to “private”. even now with my new site i’m already wondering whether i mind that my mother might read a few of the things i’m writing. when i started on xanga, though, i didn’t tell many people i knew about it, and i still like that semi-anonymity.
I wouldn’t say too much. This is my safe place to talk about such things.
I have shared everything I post online here, but not all of me is here. My tears and my humor dont translate online. Also, my smile, tone, and body language do not flow onto these pages. So, while writing is great and I can let some feelings out. I dont think I have over-shared. I think I have shared just enough and given some pieces of myself here online.
No such thing as too much.
hell yeah. hell yeah hell yeah. fuckin’ right, fukcin right ALL RGHT
YES! Absolutely.
sometimes, but I didn’t get hurt a lot considering how much I shared. I think it is also quite hard to snoop out my rl identity, and detroy my carreer or something. I doubt anyone would want that either. I am kind of glad the site shuts down though.
i used to. but i learned from my mistakes. you put something on the internet and it can be found.
a lot, yes. too much? never. i’m the opposite of fubu. fmbm
I’ve always been an over-sharer with people I don’t know..and it hasn’t killed me yet.
Regarding sharing feelings I fully believe in the teachings of Sybok. He said, “Each man hides a secret pain. It must be exposed and reckoned with. It must be dragged from the darkness and forced into the light. Share your pain. Share your pain with me … and gain strength from the sharing.” [Image]
So – in my blogs I write about absolutely everything of my life no matter how shocking or embarrassing or how hurtful it was. As such I have had a few -bad- people stalk me for it and I hope there are tighter security measures in Future Xanga so I won’t have to have Friend’s Lock.
Which (I just found this out today), provided they do reach their goal of $60,000 – I have been personally told that the staff of Xanga will transfer over all my pages and writing to the new site !
That’s awful nice of them to do that for me !
I definitely over-overshare on xanga. That’s kind of my favorite part about it. I’m an over-sharer by nature, but here I really go to town.
Yep, definitely.
If Xanga closes where will we share of things and will everything I have written on Xanga disappear to cyberspace!?
I’m mostly filtered on the internet because, well… I’m a mostly private guy.
all the time