September 14, 2011

• I'm feeling rather nostalgic this morning. For some reason impending autumn along with shadowy overcast and a reprieve from high temperatures brings this on pretty much every year. I'm an adult who's been out of high school for 8 years now and I still get that back to school vibe when autumn comes along. I still catch myself feeling so relieved that I don't have homework. I would have thought this sort of thing would wear off after a couple of years, but then again isnt' this whole point of feeling nostalgic?

  I even feel nostalgic for Xanga. While this account is new-ish I've been on Xanga for 10 years. I joined back in 2001 when blogging was a new concept The idea of keeping a journal online for others to read a comment was novel and a fantastic idea. At that time it was really something I felt like I had become a part of. I made some friends, one of which I finally met face to face this summer after knowing each other for 10 years through the internet. He was the fourth person I met in real life whom I met online. There are a few people I would love to still meet in real life as well. I digress...I miss all my old Xangan friends. I even miss the ones I read, but were never close to. Everyone, except for one, is just no longer on here. I'm Facebook friends with a very select few.

  Nowadays I find Xanga to be too vast and full of "verbal diarrhea" to find any friendships. The subs that I have found now I enjoy reading, but I feel like it's going to be a difficult search in finding more. Also, Xanga has become so cliquey. For a while I left because nobody would visit my blog or leave me comments even though I understood that it's a two way street and that I needed to do the same on others' blogs as well. So I lost my interest in blogging, but recently I've been enjoying it again and not for the comments or footprints. Oh, sure those are both very nice to see and I appreciate every single comment I get, but blogging isn't a popularity contest and getting eprops. I blog because I want to, because I feel like it, because I want to write but have no patience for the creative stuff so I just blog about me. It's fun and it's honest.

  But I don't think I'll ever stop missing what Xanga used to be and the people who made it that way.

  • 10:58 am
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