I’ve come to the decision that I should try Xanga again. I’m going to jump back into the Xangame.
I’m motivated by the quasi-epiphany that what I really loved about blogging was the social aspect of it. Jason writes and he does enjoy, even thrives on, the pure joy of writing, but it’s not the same for me if I don’t have the interaction of reciprocal reading and commenting. In all these years, I haven’t found another blogging site that creates that sense and ease of community like Xanga does. In those other places you can get dozens of comments per post only if you’re well-known. Here I have my old friends who walked in on the ground floor of Xangadom back in its early days, late 2000, early 2001. I know I can get at least a few to read me consistently here and frankly, that’s what I want. I spent many hours reading folks stating about how they didn’t care about who read what they wrote or if anyone commented. Sure, OK… then why are you posting on a public site? I do care. I admit it now.
For the past few years, no matter where it was, too much of what I’ve posted has been what I call “meta-blogging”: blogging about the act of blogging. I’d like to write some real stuff now. And since I do care, if you do read, please comment. I will reciprocate.
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Comments (7)
Well, hey, Jason! Welcome back to Xanga!
I also care if people read… if I don’t want them to read, I just make it private!
cool. good to see you back. xanga is probvably less of a close community than it was back then – it’s so big now! i’ll be reading if you’ll be writing!
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Welcome back, lol. One of the reasons I rarely unsub someone, even if they say they’re going away forever and mean it, is because they sometimes come back. Maybe just one post and then go away again… but back they come.
Looking forward to reading you again.
Is this roll call? If so … “Here!”
You can call it a roll call I suppose. See, five comments when I just reappear out of nowhere. That’s exactly what I was talking about
Now the only question is– what to write next?
NFP coined the phrase that I use (although it’s specific to the locale) “meta-xangation.”