November 16, 2008
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is xanga high school? or has it just turned into it
you see i say this because it seems like everyone else who has said it before...that xanga is being broken into so many different smaller groups......i see the up sides(people seeking help or advice hae a source) but i also see the down side....the subject matter of post have changed....
it use to be people posted what they wanted...blogged about what ever they wanted....now i have the feeling there is a change in the mood of our posting minds......it has changed to "what will get me the most attention"......which to me is no better then being in high school all over again....i guess it is as before i never liked the click mentality... the rein of lumping people together.....
i know by just saying that it is like high school all over again is in turn making myself one of those lumpers.....i also know there are alot of people on xanga still in high school or just getting out of it.....i do not mean to be little them in any way.... high school is rough at that age.....
my problem is that i am not in high school any more..nor am that age any more...though i do get wishful at times....no it is not about content as much as texture....i can jump from any window it is my gift....so reading different points of views are fun for me...but it seems of late all i see are the same post...even this one i am sure is nothing new..
secondly i did not come to xanga to find me a special someone....."cos eye find a place in my being for everyone eye encounter".. i came to xanga as a place to reveal myself without giving away anything i didn't want to......it was mine...i don't mean i owned xanga but they gave me a piece of internet land and i was free to grow what i wanted with it....i am not saying xanga is stopping me from doing so......i am just saying the ambiance is no longer the one i came to love and enjoy.... there use to be merit in the front page of xanga....and if you look today it is rather questionable to me......
there use to be many things about xanga....things change i know that...but i think it best if xanga slowed down...it use to be one could find the clicks in xanga through blog rings.....i use to be able to just look through the blog rings to find if someone could answer or if they had already asked my questions.....sure i had to do the looking and digging but that was the fun of it for me.....
though i am glad the poets corner is still alive...and sad that it has been ages since i surfed along those waves.....that use to be my ole retreat when i didn't want to foster my own mind...merely letting another paint the world for me...if only for a few seconds.....
i have never had many readers which is a good thing...as mostly nothing i have ever posted really mattered.... it was just like how some one opens a glass of wine for me.....i'd start typing sipping thoughts here and there....and by the end i knew it was always worth the time....to have bothered to share the echoes in ones mind....
Comments (3)
Two things are happening. Three maybe. Two, for sure. One, personally, you are a man of insight, and as such it will always be some measure of trial for you to flow with the mundane. But I somehow see you as a man of grace, as well, and so do not always speak your truth, but observe in quiet awareness of the things which surround you. Two, the world has gone mad, sad to say. It is part of the hypnosis. Now, I can understand adolescents in High School seeking out networking over these forums like Xangadoon and Myspace et al, but also I have seen those well over the age of childish delights pursue a life for themselves on these same forums. It is not real, only in the sense that if one makes a lifestyle of it. To communicate and get to share insights and writing with others whom we otherwise would never know, is a miraculous technology of our Age and yet too many take it to an extreme and not live life. That is the tragic downside.
And three, maybe it is that Xangadoon has, indeed, changed. Gone are the deeper discussions. Some have travelled on to live their lives away, and some return in brief pause to extend greetings. Many, I find, don't even read what a person writes even if they leave a comment, which then has nothing to do with the post. It is not about deep discussions one prompts on their own through individual posts. It is about the economy of the business side of things--advertisers, memberships, competition, et al.
You see, yours is a writing one has to think very deeply upon the reading of it. I used to write longer posts and maybe some of more depth, but those were the days at Blue Cottage, and now words begin to come less and less to me. I don't have many readers, but those I do have are fairly loyal. Most of my subscribers, more than half, have not written themselves on Xangadoon for over two years.
Your writing has taken on such an evolution. I only wish the Pineapple were here to see it, but I think he may. How do we know these things to say if he does or does not. I prefer to think he does, in some way, even if only by a wisp of a whisper.
Blessings, my dear Sir Knight~
@Bijouli - should i make this public....and if you say i should but want your comment remove i will do so as well...i just wonder if this post is better suited or said to better serves xangaland in the public
@storygrave - Hello, my good Knight. I think it is an important post to have on public, because you have a sound opinion on the theme. If you think my comment has merit to your post, you can keep it on, or if you think it is babble, you can let it go.
Wishing you streams of shooting stars over your skies this night~Blessings~
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