November 13, 2001

  • What your are experiencing is a weaning process.


    Finally, the time has come to rest.


    Approximately a year or so ago, Xanga was launched as a scientific venture in the creation of community. Conceived at Yale University in the Anthropology Dept. as an experiment in seeding resident interactions in a cyber milieu, the hope was that Xanga would enhance upon the newly-sprung weblog metaphor to forge meaningful, recurrent relationships palpably at the creative/literary level yet more foundationally as a sociological cyber-settlement. Pursuant to that end, various experimental techniques (the Bianca Effect, modulated time horizons for determining the effective half-life of eProps, etc.) were employed in what was envisioned as a fairly-controlled environment to measure the efficacy of test stimuli gauged to engender a reward response and their contribution to community-building.


    Unfortunately unseen at the startup was the extent and degree to which the particular stimuli employed (eProps, Comments, Featured Content list) would create a measurable addictive response amidst the cohort of unware blogging participants. However, once the community surged beyond a rambling nascency and began to collude with a recognizable sociological hierarchy and processed niche-creation and entrechment, the devastingly addictive effect of blogging under the "propping rules" here instituted became apparent.


    Fearing an experiment upon human subjects gone dangerously awry, Yale University then employed my services as a clinical Jungian psychotherapist and cyber-aficionado to first study, evaluate, and then make recommendations for the alleviation of the human suffering entailed by the onset of numinous addiction to blogging by a large segment of the Xangan society.


    Copious statistics and case studies over the past year (including my own carefully devised interaction with you as a "blogger") led me to the conclusion that an experimental intervention was necessary in order to mitigate the addictive behavior and ease affected participants back into a more normal life pattern. While the Anthropology Dept.’s first inclination was simply to terminate the experiment, I insisted that such would only serve to traumatize the addicted and lead them to transfer their unmet craving to, perhaps, even more self-destructive and unforseen outlets. With all responsible parties deferring to my expertise, my vision has prevailed.


    Therefore, in conjunction with the Anthropology Dept. of Yale (the XangaTeam) a step-down has now been devised that is believed to be pragmatically effectual in allaying Xangaddiction…


    Please excuse our recurring network outages-we are only trying to cure you!!!

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