June 5, 2013
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Xangamorph?
I haven't posted here in ages, but I still feel very attached to Xanga. I have, after all, been kicking around here for more than a dozen years. When I started writing here, my life was more interesting -- I was newly-married, then I was off teaching English in Korea... Once I was back in Canada and things settled down, I began to write less because I felt kind of guilty inflicting the mundane details of my daily existence on strangers. My last post here was a couple of weeks before the birth of my son, who turns 3 in a few weeks. It's been one helluva ride, and he's an wonderful little person.
I've met all sorts of fascinating people on Xanga. Another big factor behind my lesssened presence here is that the vast majority of the people with whom I really interacted have long since moved on to other pursuits. The "tone" of the place is very different now, and it's much harder to find people to really connect with. Plus I don't have nearly as much free time to devote to such interations. It really was the community aspect of Xanga that drew me in all those years ago.
And so now it may be going the way of the dodo. I hope not. This account might actually get grandfathered into the paid model somehow, I suppose, since I paid for Lifetime Premium many moons ago. If not, I expect that I'll probably integrate my blogging efforts into my personal site and keep things under one umbrella. It's funny that it never really occurred to me that Xanga might one day go away.
Comments (6)
I think you knew me as "twoberry" back in the day. http://www.xanga.com/twoberry is still where you'll find me, even though I'm logged in as "walkingonwaterfarm."
Anyway, just sayin' hi, and also sayin' that it's pretty definite that the best case scenario is for Xanga to reappear as Xanga 2.0 at wordpress and it won't be 1% as good as the original.
I say "pretty definite." Of course I hope I'm wrong.
Definitely miss the old days...just don't get around much anymore
Thanks for the message!
Hey, Justin, nice to see you. I've often wondered where you went. I don't post any longer, but I still pop by occasionally to read.
If I'm not mistaken, you weren't even married yet when you started out here back in the dark ages.
Hello, Justin. It's nice to see you here again. As for Xanga going away, I sometimes wonder why it hasn't. Despite our slowly diminishing sense of community here, new users are going to the so-called social media like Facebook and Twitter, both of which encourage short messages. Even I now have a Facebook account, where I browse daily.
As I remember it, Xanga was one of the first efforts that identified submissions as "Blogs" or "WebLogs". I was attracted to Xanga by a fictional person named Bianca in a series of posts that got sent to my email address. Xanga was new and shiny back then.
I opened many different Weblog accounts in those days, when I was healthy. I kept "Am0" on LiveJournal and sometimes write "Word Wine" on WordPress. But I'm now too old and too sick to write much anywhere.
"I began to write less because I felt kind of guilty inflicting the mundane details of my daily existence on strangers"
Yes! I understand.
Hope Xanga survives...
I do remember you as Twoberry, WalkingOnWaterFarm. I share your fear that even if Xanga survives, it won't be the same. You're probably the most active of those I subscribe to.
Nanny, I enjoy the pictures you post of that beautiful California coastline, and the work you do with youth.
Liz_A, you've always been a favourite of mine, though of course you stopped writing here a long time ago. Nice to hear from you.
Am0, sorry to hear that you've been feeling so ill. Celiac can be such a painful affliction, and such a pain to try and figure out how to stay away from gluten. I agree that for the most part, blogs have given way to brevity.
vickievix, I've been doing my best to embrace the mundane, since it would be sad to ignore such a large chunk of my life