November 26, 2010
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The Xanga Decade
Xanga has now been around for a decade, a full ten years, and my own personal 10th anniversary here is upcoming, on December 23rd.
I often wondered, back in those early days, if it would still be around in 2010, and if so, what it would look like, and how it would have changed.
Some things have not changed, but others have. Xanga is obviously far bigger now, but it still remains under the radar, not famous as a blogging platform nor as a social-networking service, though it has (unwisely, I think) tried to be both.
The content, site-wide, is more vapid than ever. The popularity contest is more rampant than ever. In early 2001, a dozen comments on a post was impressive. Fifty would mean you were phenomenally popular. Now you’ll see hundreds, even over a thousand comments on posts about nothing. Xanga has become the Seinfeld of blogging communities.
But I keep coming back here. It’s the only place where I know that, after all these years, I can find some people who will read me. Dang it, I paid for that Lifetime Premium so long ago (it was a cool $100)– I should be getting my money’s worth.
My need to write has been disquietly subjugated by all the other travails of life far too long.
Comments (5)
I never did cave in and get lifetime, and I’m only a 9 year veteran, a mere pipsqueak beside you venerable stalwarts
I’m glad you’re still around here, though! Are you on Facebook, too?
Hello Jason! Good to see you again, even if it’s just a rare post here and there. I miss the old days of Xanga. It has changed. The community is different, not so much of a community anymore, really. A whole lot of attention whores, mostly, best as I can tell. (People who sub to you and as soon as you sub back, unsub from you. That’s just not cool.)
Anyway. I hope the holiday has been a good one. Maybe we’ll see you again around Christmas time?
I thought you were kidding, but I’m glad you weren’t.
I guess I have to post now, too.
Happy almost 10-year anniversary!
Happy 10th, and I’m glad you still write.
yeah…you better get our money’s worth…haha. Oh wait, I have that too don’t I? Oops…I guess I should be using it as well then huh?