Tuesday, March 6, 2007
xanga
Writing on this blog site reminds me allot of middle school and freshman xanga days. Xanga back then was the myspace now. Everyday people would log into their accounts and write blogs about anything and everything. In some sense, our youthful freedom of writing whatever was lost as we became older and dare I say a little more mature. Now that I'm a senior, I find it more difficult to write freely and not in thesis or essay format. Now that I'm older, I've become more conscious of what I write. Looking back on my old xanga, I see a huge difference. Although I wrote allot of stupid and immature petty little things, much of what I wrote was actually honest. It’s not as if I make up what I write now but I do tend to exaggerate sometimes.I think that writing blogs for comp will bring back the times where writing came more smoothly and at ease. Hopefully
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We can only hope that's true! I used to have a xanga...I went on all the time and would pretty much write about random things like why my day was great or tell a story about what I did over the weekend. I don't know how that would help my writing now, considering I don't normally write (what I consider to be) journal entries anymore. But, then again, with our new experiences since the xanga days of old we might have gained more knowledge about how to encorporate a more academic side into the less formal journaling style. :)
haha kim, i totally remember those xanga days back in bishop. i agree with what you're talking about though. back then, we didn't care about what we wrote about or how people would think or react; we just wrote about how we felt. it was straight from the heart...the truth. as we went through high school, so many obstacles made us go through change, and we start to unconciously stretch the truth. what other realizations have you came up with about our writing back from xanga? slash differences between xanga and myspace?
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