Remember Xanga?

By Tommy Leung on 08/07/2008 in Life

A few years ago, Xanga was a really popular social Internet phenomenon. All my friends had one and were writing about their lives and what not. It was basically a blog network aimed at a younger market. I had stopped writing on Xanga since September of 2006 where I linked to a YouTube video of Keith Olbermann. I’m assuming I got a Facebook account sometime around there and forgot all about Xanga. I remembered it today and decided to take a look back at the things I wrote about–I can certainly tell that I was younger and dumber.

I’m not going to put a link to my old Xanga page but, you don’t need to be all that creative to figure it out. I read a few of my old posts and immediately noticed how I was just writing about my life and providing commentary on a few things here and there. While I have tried to write about real meaningful topics here, not many people really care to read it. The breadth of topics that I cover here is huge and that is just a bad marketing strategy.

Looking back at my old Xanga blog gave me an idea to write about my life again on this blog and then write my in depth political analysis and other topics in separate blogs. I had considered branching my political writings to a different blog a while ago since I was writing so much about that topic. There are a lot of things that I want to write about but then I don’t because it feels so disorganized here. I’ve already started to write about more personal things on this blog–that mixed with all the other topics is not helping to retain readers.

So, I’ve got a couple of blog names and ideas in mind–one of them will be political. From here on out, this blog will likely be updated a lot more, be a lot more casual, and a blog about the life of SuperTommy–not that I have tons of adoring fans but, I’m told that I’m fun to be around. :)