August 29, 2010
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Social Networks and Blogging
I once read a blog post on Xanga about social networking sites, and the history of them. They started with Myspace. Really? Ha, I laughed.
I don’t know the entire history of social networking sites, but I know it started long before Myspace. And if you’re going to call it a history of social networking sites, you better do your homework. For me, I’m just going to blog about what I know.
It all started when I was in about 8th or 9th grade. iTurf. BEST website ever. In my humble opinion. I was terribly saddened when it went under. I actually met my first online boyfriend on that site. It was the old style, where you had a profile, but you could also make your own website. Like the old style backgrounds and GIFS. It was back when having your own website was the thing to do.
Then there was Bolt. I LOVED the idea of that website. You could earn badges for certain things like winning contests, how often you logged in, it was pretty sweet. I met another guy there, but we were just friends.
Then there was kiwibox. I loved that site too. The last I knew, it was still running, but that was a while ago. You can play games there, and they had articles about pop culture. They added a blog and for some time, I wrote there. I wrote about my life, and I also wrote stories. I just went there, and it still exists! It looks way different, but I no longer exist there =[
I didn’t discover xanga until 2003. I came here. You guys know the rest. Or, you should, anyway
I then discovered Vampire Freaks. I still go there sometimes. It’s like myspace or facebook for the “dark side.” Good times good times.
Then there was Myspace. Which is pretty much dead. I haven’t logged in there in over a year. YES, let’s play Mobsters for hours and hours at a time. And Myspace blogging…. PLEASE. What a joke.
Facebook. Oh yay. Farmville, Mafia Wars…. family drama.
Twitter. Tumblr. WordPress. DeviantArt. Formspring.
I Facebook stalk a Xangan friend and follow his Twitter and creep his WordPress.
I Facebook stalk a Xangan friend and follow her Twitter (a couple of people I do this to).
I Facebook stalk a Xangan friend and text her cell phone.
You think we have too many social networks and ways to get in touch with people?
Well, that’s all I’ve got. Did I forget anything? Oh yeah, my Xanga!!!
Ha, and you thought I was going to give you my cell number. Psh.
Comments (25)
Why do I love your vampire freaks photo? I can’t put my finger on it.
I started on myspace to be able to listen to Rivers Cuomo’s solo material and the rest is history.
Facebook wasn’t always about Farmville and family drama. I signed up for facebook years ago, back when it was a networking site for students (then it was called thefacebook). Back then, you had to have an email address the ended with “.edu” in order to create an account. I use Facebook in order to keep in touch with friends, family, former and current fellow college students.
there aren’t too many, but there’s something wrong with using ALL of them. haha.
Facebook was better before the whole world was allowed to join. i liked it better when it was just for students.
Xanga’s always been the best.
You forgot Piczo.
The first social networking site, wasn’t even a website. It was an underground “community” called “Quiet” where all the drugs, drinks, and food were free, but there was zero privacy. They asked you a million questions, gave you a uniform, and video taped EVERYTHING. Sleeping, fucking, eating, shitting, showering, everything. It was created by a man named John Harris. He was the first internet billionaire, and he predicted that through the internet, we would all connect through televisions, and typing, that we would be able to click a button and watch how someone’s life plays out. Look at us now. I remember birthdays because Facebook emails me. I get recommended new music because Pandora Radio tells me what I like. I keep up with my friends and what they are doing by checking their foursquare check ins on twitter. I never get phone calls just comments. And here we are on Xanga, doing the same thing.
Interesting isn’t it?
haha I love how you ended this.
there isn’t wrong using more than one as long as one isn’t getting bogged down by using them ALL. I think I’d die if I tried to use them all at once.
I added you to Facebook.
I just added you on fb. Haha.
Weird, we weren’t friends before? That’s not right. I’ve been reading you this entire time. Huh…..
It’s funny – I used a different blogging site before I found Xanga : deadjournal. Sort of like livejournal, but darker.
I think what I like the best? Facebook and Xanga.
@godfatherofgreenbay - I think it has to do with cleavage. Not sure though.
@who_I_really_want_2_be - Yeah I heard about that. The movie coming out about it sounds really good, I want to see it.
@TheBigShowAtUD - I’m not on all them, lolz.
@Katseye4pirates - I concur.
@m_kabs - I’ve never even heard of it, lol!
@Ashtraygirl84 - That is interesting. I’ve never heard what the first social networking site was, it was before my time, lol!
@imasilentheart - Haha thanks =] I’ve never tried running everything either, lol. If I’m one, the rest of them suffer, lmao!
@Rob_of_the_Sky - =]
@Momo_Wakahisa - I don’t know, that happens to me all the time…I notice that someone isn’t my friend anymore. And I never go through my friends list and delete people!
@TheCaffeinatedKnitter - I have a Livejournal, but I never write in it. I’ve never heard of deadjournal, lol!
Good stuff. Yeah too much drama on FB.
There are so many social networking sites and blogs out there now. I’ve been on almost all of them because I’m addicted especially to blogging. I’ve written a few reviews about the sites and probably will some more. I blog on myspace but not really for anyone to see more of just a private diary unless I have something witty to say and then I don’t really care who sees it. But, yeah myspace is dead.
I’m a social network whore. A year ago I would have been all high and mighty about it. Now I’m totally viral.
I just checked out vampire freaks and it is really cool. I signed up. My screenname is beautifullybroken23 so you can find me and friend me if you want too or give me your’s. Do you ever journal there?
I just signed up for piczo too. I think I had an account like a long time ago but can’t remember.
I told you I was addicted.
@SodomyClown - Me too. What else are you on?
@crazy2love - If you want to know more about the Quiet project there is a documentary about John Harris. It’s called “We Live In Public” If you’re a Netflix subscriber it’s on instant watch. It’s difficult to watch at some points mostly because, it shows how truly detached we become via social interaction on the web. Most interesting though.
hahah For people I grew up with, we started with xanga. Then that grew old and people ventured on to myspace, then a site called Makeshift Online. And now facebook! Now I only use my Xanga and FB account.
Yeah, I’m a jerk like that.
@godfatherofgreenbay - That doesn’t make you a jerk.
@crazy2love - It’s not very interesting. There aren’t any cool layouts or anything. It’s pretty… dark. I definitely prefer xanga.
Ah, you youngens. You never got to experience the pre-world-wide-web world. The days of dial-in bulletin boards (e.g., Compuserv). The days of bulletin boards (e.g., when the Internet existed but before the world-wide-web came into being). As long as there have been ways to “log on”, there have been communities to bring people together. Arguably Facebook is the current pinnacle of that phenomenon, having amassed the largest community in history, but bigger doesn’t necessarily mean better. I yearn for the “olden” days of the small, intimate communities – before commercial bloat and bots took over everything. Ah well….
@christinajeanne - Twitter, Facebook, this… I use Tumblr for naked pictures of scenesters. Strictly business.
for me, i started grab when i was nine. i started myspace when i was eleven, and xanga when i was twelve. a few months after xanga, i made a facebook, but i didn’t like it so i deleted it. myspace died and i was only on xanga. when i transferred schools last year and made a whole group of new friends, i made a new facebook and abandoned my myspace for good. facebook is alright, too much family drama indeed, xanga will always be my baby. <3