What drew you into xanga,, or other blogs? Options

[Frizzank]

What drew you into a blog, like what attracted you?

For me it was the fact that I could write something, and I could get my thoughts and opionions to people across the nation, and even the world.

I guess I like to know that people read what I say, and how I feel I also like the assurance that im not the only one with problems.



Man that sounded lame.

Well what brought you in?

[sporadic]

I distinctly remember some chick I met in 7th grade telling me to go to her Xanga. So I did. Then she told me to sign up. So I did. Then I was addicted. And over the years I've lost and recovered that addiction. x]

[sharerol]

Well, I remember going to the xanga of someone from school last year, and all my friends started signing up, so I guess I just went along as well.

[heyyfrankie]

Man that sounded lame.

it did...it really did.

i was attracted to xanga because ALOT of people at my school had one. i didn't really pay any attention but then in computer literacy, everyone kept checking their xangas so one thing led to another and then i made one. i didn't really do it to write about my life or even to make skins...i just did it to do it. x]

EDIT;; one smiley makes all the difference.

This post has been edited by Frankie: Jun 22 2005, 06:09 PM

[me1issaaaa]

Hahaha, Frankie silly. I thought what he said was intelligent. Woo.

Um... I think it was the fact that my friend had a Xanga and I thought it was a cool idea, so I wanted one. I think it was a bigger deal then because Xangas weren't as popular - I got my first one in 2003. Kind of a long time ago.

[emazing]

Hrm.
I just liked the idea of writing in an online journal and displaying my emotions for all to see, basically what you just said sums up what I like about blogging and Xanga.
My friends got me addicted though, I think that's a good enough explanation as to how I got Myspace and Xanga.

[*Statistik*]

My friend, videogamsta.

[*mzkandi*]

I like writing. At first I wasnt to keen on having everyone seeing what I write then I discovered the private entry option and it was all good. I have made good friends on xanga well.

[Spirited Away]

I like xanga.. because of the cool name... come on 'Zang-Ga'. Sounds cool.

...... -___-

[azn_r4pf4n]

other people had it, so i decided to have one.

[inthemudhole]

I distinctly remember some chick I met in 7th grade telling me to go to her Xanga. So I did. Then she told me to sign up. So I did. Then I was addicted. And over the years I've lost and recovered that addiction. x]

Same here, basically, but I got into Xanga through you. :P
But you weren't all, "go to my XangerrrrrrRrrrr."
I just found it in your profile. =p

[SillyCourtney]

Well in 6th grade I got a diary on diaryland.. then in 8th grade I got a livejournal.. then everyone started getting a xanga and I wanted to comment and stuff so I got one too. Now I use it all the time and I like it better than everything else.

[glit_gal]

My friend told me about it and one day when I was bored I decided to make one.

[jeSs1cA]

In 5th grade, my really hot neighbor had an xanga. I decided to get one. (I was the first one in my school to have an xanga!) Ever since then, I've been addicted. Oh, and I remember I still had those colors that xanga already provides you with.. and when I learned the change the colors, I thought I was a genius! Man, if only I knew then what I know now..

[xsweetxcandyx]

xanga was just "in" at my new school when i was there..
i got one
i got myspace because because this girl told me to check out hers && i liked it, so i signed up

[cocoalightning27]

Basically I just jumped into the bandwagon...then I thought having a xanga was pretty fun...specially E props...

[jue]

i got attracted to CB cause it was cool to me how people give yu advice and you give back adivce and such.

xanga is alright to me now.

[SarahxJoy]

Haha, my friend told me about it in eighth grade.
And she said there was an InuYasha layout (I love InuYasha)..and yeah.

[lbjshaq2345]

my girl told me i should get one so i did then this summer i started foolin around with layouts and codes and i jus kept up with it

[ThePrincessofTKD]

my friends had it, and it`s my first step to webdesigning. i`ve always wanted to do webdesign when i was young. i just didn`t have the stuff.

[*iNyCxShoRT*]

My sister, she like updated hers every single day o_o

[MrDolphin]

Hm...probably the ability to let others know how I feel or in a way, to express myself. Doesnt hurt that I can also make friends through xanga and I have.

[KELLYYY]

My friends had it, so I made one. *shrug*

[demolished]

Haha, my friend told me about it in eighth grade.
And she said there was an InuYasha layout (I love InuYasha)..and yeah.

and . you never get to make your own layout ? i'm just predicting ..

[*mona lisa*]

All my friends had it and one of them persuaded me to get one too. I too didn't want to be alone and read about problems other people had.

[fameONE]

I already had a livejournal, greatestjournal, blogger and a myspace. Whats one more blogging medium?

[*lolita kitty*]

well, i joined last july. all of my friends had one, and they kept saying "cassie you loser!!!! get a xanga!!!!" so i went there and i did. and was addicted for like, ever. =]

[jaeman]

The first time I found xanga was when I was just looking through my friend's aim profile and I found this like that was labelled with an "x". I clicked it and it was pretty interesting, a profile about yourself and place where you can write about anything.
I registered because I found myself to be a very interesting writer and I also registered because I noticed lots of my friends have it.

Now a days, some of those friends quit xanga and registered for a myspace.

[JlIaTMK]

Bleh, getting comments from a girl I loved.

Oh and, reading about her life and the such.
Then I got sucked up into it myself.... oh and the designing portion of it, too.

That's what led me here.... yep.

[xSiLLyMex]

One of my frend had it. But my other frend thought it was really really fobby. I got bored one day, and decided to make one. Since the designing aspect of it was tempting. =] Plus, I like writing down my feelings and getting feedback nd stuff.

[heyyfrankie]

Hahaha, Frankie silly. I thought what he said was intelligent. Woo.

*slaps forehead*
i forgot to put the :tongue: smiley!!! i shall add it now!

[sweetxsimplicity]

er..Blogging.

[xbr0kensmil3]

i guess the whole layout thing. but then i got more into writing and stuff.

[b0st0ngrl]

I used to really be into taking those online quizzes and I wanted a place to post all my answers, so I got a xanga. Then I got a myspace because my friend in Massachusetts had one..

[enyceXaddiction]

i use to think it was plain stupid you write people comment BIG WHOOP. then i was at my bestfriends house and we made one together turns out it wastn so bad. n besides everyones into it i felt xtremely left out

[toodlepops.]

My friend got one and she asked me to join too but i told her it was boring. Affter a few months, I decided to make one and got addicted. lol
For Myspace, it was because of cb. If I never came to cb, I'd prolly won't have a myspace.

[angel-roh]

I write it like it's my journal on what I did today also where I can post pictures :D

[ANG33ZY]

i was bored one day.

[sunissed14127]

I don't really remember how I came across xanga....I think it was from after finding CB. I didn't know what it was so I went to Xanga & signed up.

[haostar]

honestly i did it to do annomus pranks to my friends or random people

why??


hehe u guys should know buy now

[sk8ter4life750]

No clue I dont remember. Probly the facts that alot of my friends had them so I dunno.

[eli5e]

ALLLLLL of my friends had it... soooooooooooo ...yeah... haha

[Frizzank]

Im pretty much addicted to it now because I heart eprops,

and a lot of my friends use it.

and a friend who i secretly adore

[medic]

I got a xanga because my friends wanted me too. I must say, its really not what its made to be. But it is free.....

[xMayleex]

Everyone on cb had one so i thought i would just get one too lol.

[*tweeak*]

everyone at school kept talking about xanga (yeah yeah yeah, we're such geeks. we go to parties and wind up talking about xanga. it's just sad) so when my friend called me one time and started talking aboiut it, i finally broke down and made one. of course, one turned into like 5, because i mispelled the first one, and then i didn't like usernames i made up, but i've been with this one (my second main one) for over a year now, and now quite literally everyone i know has one, so without xanga, i would be completely isolated from all my friends

[racoons > you]

^

i miss dublosven

anyways. yeah. nicki

[*tweeak*]

and once again, it was a stupid, stupid username.

[kaB00M]

My friends were talking about their xanga and they introduced me to xanga. I've been addicted ever since. I've even improved my web designing skills b/c of xanga and createblog of course.

[Skyline Drive]

I wanted to leave comments on my friends xanga but I couldn't unless I joined so then I started to use it.

[Se7eN_x]

i thought an online diary thing would be cool xD and also most of my friends had one so i made one

[DisneyPrincessKa...]

everyone had livejournal! EVERYONE! I didnt want to pay and I didnt have a code. Then someone told me about xanga and how it was so much better than livejournal. I started that. Then for a while I couldnt make new posts, so I opened a livejournal (they had abolished the code thing) and i HATED it.

[Eryi]

It was just a good place to chill and talk about you day.

[soulless727]

purple ponies (self deleted 12/30/06)

[Janolam]

Lol. Xanga used to be soOoOoOoOo popular back in the 6th grade. Everyone would be going:
Visite my xanga today
You never write in my chatterbox!
Leave me propz kay?
I didn't want to be left out so i made one.
[jerry]

[Teesa]

Christina (m1ssxchr1ssy) first had one, and then she told me I should get one, so I did.

[tokyo-rose]

My friends had one in seventh grade and I wanted to join in on the fun, so I signed up for one in April 2004.

[*My Cinderella.*]

All the cool kids were doing it!

Haha, my friends made me.

[angelrevelation]

I started getting into xanga because it was like... a new internet discovery for me. Then I got into it after a long absence because I saw all the icon and quote sites there were.

I started Myspace because I wondered what everyone was talking about

[Bonobo]

Okay I'll list

• Xanga - I wanted a blog cause they were the thing
• Myspace - saw my sister had one and it was before it was big, so i said i wanted one
• CreateBlog - originally the layouts and skins, but when i saw the forum i got really excited XD
• CampusBug - Myspace was makng me mad
• FaceBook - friends were on it

[clarity]

Shouldn't this be in more in the Designers Cafe?

Anyways, what drew me to xanga was I got to make a blog.
It was "the thing".
Plus my friends who were older had them, so I was like... "okay."

edit- oh I realized this was made about a year ago.

[NgocQuyen]

my little sister Lynn first introduced me to xanga. at first i thought it was cool that i could actually have my own little journal thing that people could message me on and what not. i don't know it was just..interesting. i was a kid, a lot of things were interesting at that time. lol ;]

[hair products]

xanga? just to say random things. then i started forming my words and it was fun. roxy and i use to always be in featured content

[*Intercourse.*]

Well I met this guy named Trent on neopets years and years ago and we've been friends since. He told me to make a xanga, myspace, facebook, gia online, and other accounts so I could look at his blogs/chat to him on other things besides aim

So I suppose that drew me in the most? I liked writing little journals too, that was nice but I'm not good at writing journals.

[michellerrific]

I was actually one of those "first" people to get it, before it got totally popular around here. I forgot how I found out about it, but one day I just made one. And no one really read it, but I didn't care because it looked so cool, having a "website" and everything.

[Jeng]

Well bloogish kinda, like... make up blogs and stuff.

[LiLQtAzN35]

I preferred typing rather than physically writing out my journal entries

And it's so hard to find a good hiding place for my journal in my house so the "Protected/Private" feature on Xanga is useful.

Xanga was the one place where I could go rant and no one would complain.

[dalenaadsiqnz]

^i too prefer typinq out my journal entries other than writinq them by hand :)

my friend in 5th qrade qot me into it

i'm not the kind of person to keep an on-qoinq diary &such. with xanqa i could keep my entries private and safe xP

i also qot into it after findinq out i had photoshop for so long XD
i qot inspired by some awesome sites like this one.
i learned my html &all that stuff after xanqa's so-called 'FAD'

[TheReasonWhy]

my friends maybe. got a lot of them using and its hard to change blog after then.. plus xanga is pretty addictive...

[*Monochrome.*]

My dearest friend taslked me into it.And i got adicted to it.This same friend got me into facebook but i joined and then i left.

[cupcakex]

Livejournal, &it was my sister.

[multifaceted]

Because my friend wanted me to.

[alysaphobia]

my friends had one, they told me to get one so i could comment them, so i did.

[Detective]

Everyone had one so i was pressured into making one.

[Jinny]

well when i was like 10, i went to my friends house. (the same age as me) so while i was there i saw she made a xanga. well she's like "do you want one too?" and i didn't know wth it was so i was just like.. uhh sure. i found out that she got xanga from her sister (3 years older than her) who got it from another friend. and for myspace.. i think i saw my brother doing it? then i made one myself. yeaaahhh

[*Duchess of Dork*]

I liked the idea of having a little space where I could vent out some frustrations, or just go on and on about anything I wanted to without worrying about talking too much or getting on anyone's nerves.

Also, as strange is it is, I felt like I had a little privacy from those I knew in real life, so-to-speak.

Xanga was a Sunday morning ritual for me for a while. I used to love to spend about 30 minutes or so, drinking coffee and just writing about my week. How I felt, what I did, how my son was, etc.