Cultural Fragmentation

Google Blogger upsets me. I'm not quite sold on it yet.

I maintained a blog on Xanga for a while (a little over a year, 2005-06), and I was/am a frequent MySpace user, where I have been blogging on and off for the past year.

But sometimes, I don't like blogging on MySpace because it's all connected to my profile, with pictures of me, personal information, and about 500 contacts, the majority of whom I know in real life. Meaning, I end up censoring my posts at least a little, because I don't want these contacts to read my most twisted, darkest thoughts (or to notice how much I curse -some of them are childhood church fam lol). Yet, I still feel a desire to get these thoughts out of my head and express them. Hence, my presence here on blogger.

Sidebar. I could go back to Xanga but.....I don't know.....seems so outdated. Maybe if they have an import function now, I will go back.

Which brings me to my main point. I feel like my online thoughts over the past 2.5 years are scattered all over, and I wish there was some blogging site where I could import my old posts from various websites and consolidate my blog history (lol).

Case in point: this is only my second post on here, but that feels ridiculous, because I've really been blogging much longer than that.

But I guess it works out, because many of my old Xanga and MySpace posts contain hints (or blatant statements) of my personal information, and I'm trying to move away from that (had a couple stalker scares), but going through the old posts to delete all of those hints before importing them would be quite a pain.

I actually had a blog set up with Google already (which is why my profile says I've been a member since 2005). It was very cutesy. "Hi, I'm Mel, a 22-year-old art major, blah, blah, blah...", but it had all KINDA personal information included (though it was all of 5 posts long lol), so I guess I can start somewhat fresh here.

But from time to time, I think I'll re-post some of my older posts from Xanga and MySpace (the ones I find important or "insightful" I guess), as a way to somewhat consolidate my online thoughts.

...assuming I continue blogging here because, again, I'm not quite sold on the idea yet.

Is there a way to subscribe to other people's blogs and get alerted when they make a new post?

Xanga has that feature.

This is only a test

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...