June 5, 2013
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This is the Point When We All Pretend We’re Too Cool To Keep Talking About It.
Posts move from “5000 Ways to Save Xanga!” and “My Xanga Story!” to “I Wish These *7%^suckers Would Just Pledge Or Get Over Themselves.”
At least, over the past nine years that’s the way Xangevents usually seemed to go down.
Which is good with me. I mean, I’m cool with it. It does severely curtail my ability to talk about two different topics on my two blogs, as I can really only generate one genuine, real-life topic per day, and was counting on The Demise of Xanga to function as my second topic for some weeks.
Five weeks and some days, if you want to be specific.
I thought the post done by @slmret for today was interesting and helpful, for people who may not have realized that Xanga wouldn’t be located on wordpress, but would merely be powered by wordpress, in the event it raises its money.
Years ago I was on a message board with a group of internet strangers. I met a lot of them in person. Once we all met in person the whole place kinda fell apart. It was an issue-based falling-apart, believe it or not, which is weird. People simply couldn’t wrap their minds around other people’s political/religious/moral views. I got caught in the middle of some bizarre battles over things that seemed (to me) completely irrelevant to the question of friendship (which, in my opinion, is a formidable question all by itself).
Anyway, that’s how I came to Xanga. I floated around in a couple of other forums and @transvestite_rabbit suggested Xanga in a message intended for me and some other people as well.
GENUINE REAL-LIFE TOPIC FOR TODAY.
Comments (12)
sheesh. i’ll read your “genuine real-life topic”…YOU DON’T HAVE TO YELL ABOUT IT.
That sucks that friendships fell apart after meeting. I have had the pleasure of meeting several people from social network/blog sites and have had good experiences. I wouldn’t mind meeting more. With Xanga closing. I thought it’d be cool if someone, or a couple someones, stepped forward and chose a random day and venue (like their house or a park or restaurant) and announced it and any Xangans that lived close enough and cared to could go there and meet others, but as this place rapidly is declining, Im not sure if that would be something that will happen.
I’ve had the opposite experience with meeting online friends. It seems whenever I meet someone in person that I know online, our friendship becomes deeper. But I haven’t met that many people overall.
I haven’t met any online people in real life, except for some dates. which did not turn out well. not badly, but not well. anyway. I’m intending to rectify that this summer, and I admit I’m nervous about it going well. But we’ve been online friends for a while, and not just on Xanga, so I have high hopes.
Thanks for the mention — I am glad you found my post helpful. Sorry to add to the multitude of posts (!), but in my circle of Xanga friends, I’m sure there were many who didn’t understand the difference, just as I was confused at first! This information made it much a more ciable option in my mind — and hopeful will save a lot of grief for some people!
You can lament the demise of xanga all day. Or every day for the next forty. It does my heart good, all that lamenting.
What’s a seven-percenter?
i prefer to lament quietly until it’s no longer cool to lament publicly.
it feels like the real end of xanga that @complicatedlight - went over to wordpress. you know?
@promisesunshine - merely a contingency, my dear. <3
@Crystalinne - Heck. If anyone’s in the DC area I could totally do that.
I’m glad you got shoved in here OBL.
Wait…I brought you to Xanga? Those days are very murky in my mind. All I remember is stumbling over here and getting a nice welcome from neuroticfitchmom and connecting with some other people from that other place.
@complicatedlight - I get excited, I start yelling.@Crystalinne - yikes in re: an open invitation to Xangans to come to my house, LOL. @BohemianLotus - well I did meet a Xangan I really liked. So it might have been the people on the other board just weren’t nice people.@leaflesstree - dating is so hard.@slmret - oh no, don’t apologize! I’m all about a multitude of posts.@distractedbyzombies - a person who is still in the top 10%, but just barely?@promisesunshine - uhhhhhh…yeah, what CL said. @onestepcloserto_perfection - thx. In re: dc, not when you move to Korea!!@transvestite_rabbit - uh, yeah.
One could make the case that fallout from the Xangocalypse (a term I coined many months ago, thank you very much; wait, is that a good thing?) vaguely follows lines of political identity. Such a case would be boring and questionable.
Wait, why is there a question mark? I was asking you!