July 24, 2013

• Xangonians

           Well we only have a few days before the Xanga change. I guess it will either be Xanga on the WordPress platform or no Xanga. If no Xanga, I'm guessing most will be moving to a different blog site somewhere. Very early I signed up for the new Xanga.02 and I do hope they, I should say we, succeed in raising the capital to continue. It is very close to the goal. I think those of us left and still faithfully hanging on here will continue on with Xanga in what ever form it takes in the future. Regardless of the outcome, we all will continue to identify ourselves as "Xangans" (or should it be "Xangonians") not "X-Xangans" anymore than we could call ourselves X-Italians, X-Huguenots or X-Kansans.
             Over the years we have all acquired or created an identity because of this community we have been a part of. For some, perhaps the only identity they have ever had or cared to admit to, whether your blog had hundreds of subs, friends or footprints or whether you just enjoyed using Xanga as a personal journal with only an occasional visitor. Either way we have declared ourselves as individuals, free to move inside or if we wished outside of the box and Xanga has given us a place to express ourselves to the whole world or simply to record our thoughts privately in an interesting format that's available to us no matter were we are at. And probably more importantly we have all been able to expose ourselves to diversity, creativity and points of view that otherwise we would never be aware of.  All from the comfort of our own couch, motel room or fancy new mobile device. That is pretty awesome considering only a few years ago the only place we could do that was in a red spiral notebook, a letter to your folks and friends or if we were pissed off enough , a letter to the editor.
              To put it simply into perspective, it is fun here. I am sure none of us are here because we hate it. So let's keep having fun. 

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