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Xanga Personals: The Real FUQ

(Frequently Uttered Questions)

Why won’t they let you use your Xanga username as your Personals’ “profile nickname” too?

Well, they want to make money! If you could find your ideal match by browsing the Personals, and then simply refer by the “profile nickname” you’ve located back to the matching Xanga username, you could bypass buying credits and just get in touch directly without paying the middleman.

Indeed, I recognized one Xangan by an alias she also uses (in addition to her regular Xanga username) and was able to have some fun contacting her on her blog instead of through buying the “credits”.

How can you arrange to use your favorite Xanga username, i.e. xxreaderxx, as your Personal’s “profile nickname” also—so they match?

1) First, your current favorite Xanga username—xxreaderxx—must still remain available in the entire 1 million member Spring Street Personals database. If you’re username’s been taken already, you’re out of luck.
2) You must create/already have a different Xanga username—not-xxreaderxx—to log into Xanga with. Then go to the Personals, log in with this other alias, and use the “Create Profile” button to create your preferred Xanga username—xxreaderxx—profile.

So I’ve created a notforprophet Personals “profile nickname” while logging in under a different Xanga alias ( I knew someday they’d come in handy!). I did this mainly so that some other ruthless Xanga bastard wouldn’t co-opt my Xanga username and deceive some poor, beautiful, but gullible girl out there into believing that he (or she) was me!

Though currently hidden from view (i.e., I’m not advertising my profile in the Personals), if I were ever to go publicly Personal, the “notforprophet” you’d see would be the “notforprophet” I am here in my blog! So you’d have the opportunity then to either contact me directly and save buying their “credits” or say “Fuck that. That’s the same fucking guy as on the blog. Fuck him!” mwuahahaha

How can you search the Personals just for other Xangans and not through Spring Streets’ whole 30-plus site database?

There is a way!

1) Go to Personals and log in.
2) Go towards the bottom of the page and click on “Advanced Search”.
3) Go all the way to the bottom of the Advanced Search (unless you want also to filter for other criteria along the way) and click/check on the “Search only—users of:” box.
4) Right below the above box, there is a drop-down menu with the default of “all”. Change that to read “Xanga.com”.
5) Click the “Find My Match” button at the bottom and you’ll be able to see only those who registered Personals with Xanga accounts (though remember almost all “profile nicknames” will not match the Xanga username most users go by (see first item at top of page for explanation).

How much profit will Xanga make from this?

Well, each credit costs between $.80 and $.42 cents depending on which “credit package” you buy (cheaper with volume). Since you need 1 credit to respond to a single Personal and between 2 and 3 credits to chat (send an “Instant Gratifier”), you might spend anywhere from $.80($.42), $1.60($.84), or $2.40($1.26) per inquiry/online chat.

Since Xanga splits the money 50-50 with Spring Street, well, that’s enough math! But the eventual potential is a lot.

How much profit will notforprophet make from this?

See those $$million$$ dollar bills in my background? LMAO