Xanga was my first true social media!!! I was on the internet as early as the AOL days of the 90s as well, but that wasn’t social media, nor was LJ really. Xanga was the first internet home I had where people who knew me IRL followed me. But yeah very few people I talk to these days remember it, it’s like it didn’t happen.
and also yeah I think like…the thing about writing and the internet and why people on twitter are so mean and afraid of nuance is that everyone wants to Post and Talk At The Void but no one wants to like, sit with anything for any length of time or have an actual conversation with people. It’s engagement-seeking, not conversation-fostering. And like, blogging doesn’t have to be that, it can be personal for an audience of just yourself. But for me, I miss the kind of blogging that would get stuck in my head. Like maybe the writing itself wasn’t being written to go viral or have some kind of audience or whatever, but it’s thought provoking ennough that weeks or months or years later I’m like ‘man I can’t stop thinking about this post I read about ____'
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and also yeah I think like…the thing about writing and the internet and why people on twitter are so mean and afraid of nuance is that everyone wants to Post and Talk At The Void but no one wants to like, sit with anything for any length of time or have an actual conversation with people. It’s engagement-seeking, not conversation-fostering. And like, blogging doesn’t have to be that, it can be personal for an audience of just yourself. But for me, I miss the kind of blogging that would get stuck in my head. Like maybe the writing itself wasn’t being written to go viral or have some kind of audience or whatever, but it’s thought provoking ennough that weeks or months or years later I’m like ‘man I can’t stop thinking about this post I read about ____'