November 30, 2006
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What is Xanga?
This is what our frontpage says:
Xanga is a community of online diaries and journals. You can easily start your own free journal, share thoughts with your friends and meet new friends, too!It’s a bit out of date and we’ll probably edit it or take it off the frontpage. But it got me thinking, so I thought I’d ask: What is Xanga?
Comments (90)
I’m fine with it
Xanga is my secret hiding place.
Xanga is a method of self-expression. =)
I think that’s still valid… only now we have more bells and whistles like the video/audit/photos, which only makes it better
xanga is.. a journal. yeah. and.. a hell lot better than myspace. woot.
Xanga is the place to keep people up to date with your life….hehez =====a public journal
public journal/storage bin
whatever you want it to be.
my life , sadly
How about these as a start?
* a supportive, virtual community where you can find new friends and new ideas
* a community of online journals where self expression are encouraged and where self discovery can happen
I think that still applies.
But agreed… there’s just more bells and whistles now.
Xanga is a collection of your personal thoughts and memories. Preserved here for others to see and relate back to. Xanga is a happy place. Xanga means Reflection.
I like the community aspect of Xanga. That should not be left out. It’s not really a good idea to make all of one’s friends online, but the idea of keeping in touch with those you already know and/or making a couple online friends here and there is one of the best aspects of Xanga
it’s pretty much whatever you want it to be.
o_O
alright so it’s not a guy knocking on your door and holding a HUGE check for a million dollars with your name on it…meh.
but? a girl can dream, no?
hey. i’ve met some great friends here and, if not for it, i’d've not spent time in texas hanging out at the fair and i’d not have spent time with some wicked fine bitches on the west coast of oregon and washington. who’d'a thunk it, hm?
xanga is a place where friends meet, to exchange ideas on life in general. Whether you are interested in art, crafts, cooking, photography, education, music or religion. Whatever your interest, you will find it on xanga.
who came up w/ the name “xanga”? and what’s the story behind that?
Xanga is the best choice for safe online interaction through as many means of expression as there are senses to experience it! Write it. Speak it. Picture it. Watch it.
It’s free to sign up. Do it.
It is just not what it used to be.
A miserable little pile of secrets!
Personally, I’d say you shoot a little more toward the older definition (I think?) that you guys used to have up: more of a place to share thoughts and ideas via blog, rather than a simple livejournal with flare or Myspace with slightly fewer pictures.
But that might just be me.
A community for friends and family to keep in touch over the miles.
It is a place for people with similar thoughts and interests to meet and talk and exchange ideas.
I am a writer, as are most of my friends here, and it is a good place to post your thoughts, and get feedback from others doing the same thing. It is also a good place to make new friends.
A magical place where all your dreams come true! >_<
Xanga is a highly dynamic medium of self-expression.
I thought it stood for Extremely Awesome Ninja Gangster. I think that the front title describes it well. The videos, pictures, and audio files are just supposed to support the blog, aren’t they?
Dr. Carasco
Xanga is a community of people who care to share their thoughts and enjoy connecting with others in a more effective way than the popular MySp_ce sites. The atmosphere of Xanga is more personal and welcoming as well as very versatile. Share your life and thoughts with friends next door and around the world.
Xanga is your own personal stage to express your world to a borderless realm of audience.
Xanga is a safe community of online journals and free multimedia hosting. You can easily start your own video, photo, audio, and weblog journals, share thoughts with your friends and meet new friends, too!
Xanga, for me, will always be a weblog community, basically what the blurb says. I hope you guys don’t move too far away from that.
Xanga is a community, which one can express humanity freely, without fear of persecution. Where being different is accepted and nurtured. A place where one can exist electronically.
- an obsession. an addiction.
- a stalking tool
- a sounding wall
xanga is a really cool, well-designed interface over-infested by adolescent turds.
(as a former software engineer, i mean that as a compliment
I largely use it to record the events of the day and my random thoughts, but I’ve also used it to meet people… just not nearly as much as I use it to blog.
[Which is why I think xanga is still the same.]
I thought you were going to say something awesome like, %%%% off spammers!
Xanga is my online journal, where I note events and random thoughts, and put stuff that interested me.
what’s wrong with it?
A website with too much censorship that has over the past few months become closed off from the public while losing most people’s interest. That’s been my opinion ever since the ratings system at least. But, this place is the last standing bastion for blog writers, so that is something.
the internet is for porn
xanga is a collection of memories.
I think your front page should say… “We’re not exactly sure what a Xanga is, but when you find out, let us know. Oh, and by the way, you can blog here, too.”
Or maybe, “Each time you blog on Xanga, we keep a little piece of your soul. Otherwise, it’s free. Sign up today!”
i like the old xanga
Xangais my addiction!
if you decide to change anything.. don’t make it into something like myspace. myspace is overated. xanga allows you to express yourself.. myspace is about pictures and pedofiles. personally, i like the current definition of Xanga. i’m not against any new ideas for xanga.. i just don’t want the main focus of xanga to be shifted. =)
i LOVE xanga!
i think it still applies.
Something I use from time to time to keep everybody uptodate with what I’m doing.
Social site and blog.
xanga is a way of life.
= )
what is the origin of the word xanga?
i like this one best:
Xanga is the best choice for safe online interaction through as many means of expression as there are senses to experience it! Write it. Speak it. Picture it. Watch it.
It’s free to sign up. Do it.
Posted 11/30/2006 at 10:44 PM by mcrib96
Xanga is a place to connect and keep up with other’s lives . . .It is a support group (of your choice) and it is sooo much better than myspace! I appreciate soo much the lack of ‘trashy’ people trying to get themselves out there . . . I totally enjoy the footprints also!
Good question; where did the name xanga come from? Have a great Friday! – JN.14:27 Rom.5:8
Xanga is all that and more… maybe you could add meet friends and maybe future mates
I met mine here… so thank you xanga…why don’t you do a feature on Xanga couples that met here and got married…I am one and I know another one…maybe there’s more 
xanga is a place great minds are put into text or imagery.
Xanga is the place where you can pretend you’re working, when you’re really not *grin*
Xanga is an interactive multimedia blogging community.
Xanga: a way of expressing yourself?
Xanga beats the he-hockey out of MySpace!
We can basically write whatever we want to, but be reasonably sure that we’ll get feedback if it is any good or emotionally stirring.
your mom
It should stay, first and foremost, a weblog community. I appreciate the addition of photo hosting, because it’s become a necessity for blogging. The rest seems a bit superfluous – videos are for YouTube, and audio is for MySpace. I really don’t want Xanga to try to be like them, because then what’s the point of it even being here?
A great place to express oneself, or interact with others. A place to laugh, dream and explore into the world of another.
Xanga is… Better than Myspace.
I know what Xanga isn’t, and that’s myspace. Let’s keep it that way.
Xanga™ : Xanga is an online service specifically designed to steal the souls from those who use it. But let’s face it; there are far-worse things you could be giving your soul over to. Country music, for instance.
what i do when the internet’s out of porn
Xanga is where you find yourself speaking the truth of life to nobody.
or
Xanga, the reunion venue for worldwide blog writers.
xanga is an outlet.
=]
i thought you were xanga? ha ha.
xanga is so many things to so many ppl…
it can be whatever you make it out to be –
except, i don’t think it can cut a can in half with one stroke…
* a supportive, virtual community where you can find new friends and new ideas
* a community of online journals where self expression are encouraged and where self discovery can happen
Posted 11/30/2006 at 10:06 PM by onetonman
I like that:)
I know what Xanga isn’t, and that’s myspace. Let’s keep it that way.
Posted 12/1/2006 at 4:01 PM by FictionalCharacter102
amen:)
xanga is a funny place. it has many uses.
there are bad people.
there are bad layouts.
<3
but there’s friends.
XANGA IS A PLACE WHERE WE CAN ALL COME AND EXPRESS OURSELVES AND BE CREATIVE-A PLACE OF CREATIVE SELF EXPRESSION
my secret hiding place to put most of my thoughts down instead of on papers love to all shelly.
X|A|N|G|A my antidrug
I think it is a way to explore the world without leaving home; or it is another home with friends a click away. It’s a party; it’s a salon; it’s a chat with old friends. It is a whole world waiting to be explored, where you can carve out your own homestead if you like, or just roam.
Xanga is a place to reflect on your thoughts and the ability to express yourself without having half the world know about it.
Xanga is not myspace and I prefer it to remain that way. It is my home away from home where I can rant.
xanga is my best friend.
xanga is a place a lot of people have abandoned for myspace.
sorry to say, but, we need some new things to get people back.
i’m the last one of my friends who still use xanga.
just take a look at xanga.com/why and get your answer
you could probably just say “awesome”
as in, “xanga is awesome”
xanga is wat u said it was o_o and its WAY better than ne online crap diary, we can do our own layout!! my space sucks. the end. lol
Xanga is my alter ego
Xanga = The Sex.
Enough said.
<3
A waste of time generally, but fun.
Xanga was a place to try out your writing on, a place to meet people also trying, a rather innocent web presence of jolly people having fun
Xanga is a virtual country, populated by hormonal kiddies, paranoid middle-aged moms with superiority complexes, and anonymous lurkers who probably just haven’t got anything to say. The first lot beg the Xangagods for more and more ways to hook up, the second beg Xanga for their own exclusive gated communities and the third lot, well they just lurk.
What will Xanga become? Watch this (my)Space? Hi5′s to you? Not LJ anyway.
Whatever…
Its fun.
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity . . . it was the age of Xanga.
xanga is versatile enough to make it whatever a person wants it to be.
John, I proposed re-examining this issue almost a year ago!
http://www.xanga.com/notforprophet/432755366/item.html
A scrapbook of our lives!