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no one gets to come in

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It's funny how, now that it looks like Xanga is on the road to nothing, I am the one saying goodbye to it, not the other way around.

We could carry on like nothing ever happened, but the almighty Team is down to seven members. We're looking at a xanga that might disappear in two weeks, for all we know. And as long as TheoDan is imposing this ship metaphor, yes, I am going down with the ship. I hope you are too.

The fact is that Facebook and Twitter are now the heart and soul of the Internet. Facebook and Twitter are just mindless statuses, updates, what-am-I-doing questions that leave no room for reflecting, pondering, learning. There are no such things as strangers. there are no such things as meeting others with different opinions. There isn't a priceless factor of anonymity that surrounds us on Xanga, a protective covering that lets us join hands and be unique and important.

I will miss the parts of Xanga where I feel like there are people who will listen. I will miss the parts where people won't judge me for having solid beliefs and opinions at a young age. I'll miss the select Xangas where it's almost like you're looking through a window at somebody else's world. I'll miss interacting with real people, not fake dolled-up mannequins infiltrating my teenage world. I'll miss knowing that the world isn't perfect, because I see it every day on here.

I have only been here for a few months. I didn't even get a chance to be popular, y'know, one of those Xangalebrity people. I planned to change my username eventually, maybe get to the point where I would have everyone talking about a controversial post I would write. I would get 2000 footprints a day and hundreds of friends. Now it may not ever happen.

Maybe I'm overreacting to a simple thing like a websit shutting down. I'm just a loyal person. I repeat: beloved Xanga, I will be here until the very last second that you exist on the internet. At least until this scare is over, and then I'll watch my fellow xangans grow up and take on lives of their own.

The best part of this is what I said last night. I lay awake, waiting to fall asleep, and began to have a little mindless chatter in my mind with that guy up there. Normal prayers. And then, without even thinking about it, I said,


"God, please save Xanga."


There you have it. Now even God is involved in this ordeal, and I hope you'll be asking him as well.

Do you think God will save Xanga? And you better miss it if it goes down, because I sure as hell will be missing you.