March 1, 2006
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"Who thought that a bunch of Asian kids in the southwest US could bootstrap a phenomenon and cause Xanga to get big?"
- What Went Wrong
John, Bob, and crew - are just "a bunch of Asian kids". ha.
"People thought Blogger was hot, until Xanga came from nowhere, and then Spaces blew past it in a few months. Today it's all about MySpace and YouTube."
- What Went Wrong
But could it be 'all about' Xanga again? Not likely unless Xanga radically innovates.
"People hang out at a physical place, because it's the place they expect to find the people they want to hang with. Same with social spaces. And when a particular hangout gets old, that's all there is to it. You can try your best to make your space "sticky", to reward loyalty, but the other space is working just as hard to make it easy for people to transfer. If you track hot restaurants or party spots in any city, you already know this. It's a terrible idea to think that a hot place will always be hot, that it's hot because of some specific strategy that you can own, or that you can sink even more money into it to make it hotter."
- What Went Wrong
'notforprophet' used to be stickier. Way stickier. But so was 'fairestc' and 'Lyssa' (the first to popularly do 'TheTheologiansCafe' kind-of question thingie) and "VeryModern' and 'James', etc. Never heard of them? Or never hear much anymore? That's because . . .
being popular on Xanga, as typified by making it to the top of Featured Content, is a predictably fickle and passing thing. I'm about 99.99% confident that everybody hitting consistently at one of the 'top 10' spots on Featured Content now won't be there two years from now. Even if they are still around. Even if their content has gotten better. It's the law of Blog Humble: An online social network like Xanga absolutely requires ever-shifting faces in popularity. Or it itself will die (sooner than later). Queen for a Day. Yep, all you FC brighties today ain't nothing more than Queens for a Day. Step up, get popular, and shine, shine, shine. Then prepare yourself, if you stick around, to return to the pack.
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Do you work for xanga? I'm just curious.
Actually, fairestc would still be here in her newer account IF the harassment and abuses had stopped at her site like she asked for...and one of HER last posts was on FC with something like 300 comments. Sad that a few can make the great ones leave just by bullying them around. Maybe that is part of what is going wrong.
I read the article you linked to (well, you linked to the front page, but I found the article anyway), and I read the article linked to from there, and I'm still not clear on "what went wrong".
My personal opinion is that social networking sites, in their current state, are pointless, offering very little utility other than connecting people via rather "dumb" lines. Orkut tells me I'm connected to 13,000,000+ people. Gee golly, that's handy.
No!!!! I don't work for xanga maandsaint...
I just cracked myself up....
I was also kinda gettin' hot, thinkin' about being queen for a day..
Hmm, you sound a little bitter
X_naomi_X,
Nope. Not bitter at all. Understanding the dynamics of 'things', for me, is liberating.
i think you are partially right. i am the perfect example of having a popular blog two years ago. and then, you have CaKaLuSa who will still be popular two years from now.
-ray leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
You were getting hot, huh? Sounds like hot flashes. Menopause maybe? Haha. Just kidding.
I wouldn't say anything's gone wrong so long as a site has a solid core of people who stay, augmented by new people who will be future posters with staying power. I think that as regards that particular point, the article misses the fact that not everybody chooses their hangout based on what's cool; if anything the main reason I see people getting any kind of blog or networking thingy is because their friends are on it, and that applies to things which are the flavour of a previous month as well as MySpace.
This is why I seek neither fame nor popularity on Xanga.
To the best of my knowledge I have never been on the Featured Content list and I do not expect that I will ever be on the Featured Content list.
I use Xanga as an outlet for frustrations and angers and joys and happiness and other such things that I have no convenient outlet for in the real world. And every now and then I try my best (and mostly come up short) to write something worthwhile that people enjoy reading.
--End of Line--
so true... too true... as if life.
be blessed and be light...
Who you callin' "Queen" Mr. Radical Innovation?
Sail on... sail on!!!
Seems like a lot of the people I know who have made FC are taking steps to ensure that they WON'T make it again!
Well, there are shifting faces in popularity because people quit Xangurr after a while... and most stop reading their favorite sites.
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There Can Be Only One Cheeze.
hey seriously, nfp - how come you highlight *your* links but not *ours*???
hahahaha, how true how true!
I actually have a myspace account...it's not too bad. But it's sad to see that nobody I used to read is on the featured content list anymore.
Of course, some of us choose not to be on FC. Nearly every post that I wrote made it there, but I'm not all about popularity and being a prop whore. I'd rather have a core group of real friends ... which is why I also use myspace, but only add people that I actually know to the list.
Heh...
No need to go out and get wasted on my behalf. I don't even go out and get wasted on my behalf.
This too shall pass...
--End of Line--
Interesting. I know if I am still around i won't make FC as I have deleted my E props, FC had nothing to do with content anyway. RYC: Oh, that sounds like a pain, and it would take away all the fun.
I still read those that i subbed to over 3 years ago. Sometimes these are the only blogs worth reading. I miss the "Old Xanga".
Here's an innovation. Survey. What are the demographics? Age? Sex? Why do people blog? Popularity? Maybe if you are a teenager. Most of my SIRs could care less about popularity, Featured Content or eprops. When you walk into a party, you don't look for a sign that tells you the most popular table. You mingle. You sample. You find a group that you like. You integrate. The same goes for blogs. You follow interesting links.
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I'm slamming for the hell of it.
Alright. Fine. I'll say something.
Social behavior IS fickle. But I still adore you ... and remember the day you subbed to my humble abode. I remain truly yours.
F O R E V AAAAAAAAAH!
Rome also became unpopular at one point.
ah xanga...what ever did I do before I found it?
I miss VeryModern.
VeryModern, James, Queenie....now we are getting back to the old days
don't want to be queen of anything.
especially not drama
I agree with you on anyone on the top of featured content will not be there two years from now.
Where are ur Layouts????
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