Xanga

Xanga is very common among the youngsters or even adults. It is very popular because it has many functions and the members can have great freedom in designing their xanga. Most of my friends are the members of xanga and they are interested in joining different blogings in xanga’s world. In fact, I don’t like xanga as I think it is too popular that I just a feeling of being naked in front of the strangers. Although I know there is a private function in order to ignore the others to see your blog, it is still very insecure to me. Actually, I think the linkage of xanga’s blogings is very terrible to me. Although I am not the member of xanga, I am still a user of it. When I surf the xanga’s blogings, it is just give a feeling to me that the world is very small. I click to some strangers’ xanga freely, just let it to bring me to different people’s world. Then I continuously browse different xanga; at last I can easily link to my friends’ xanga from the other strangers! It is another kind of globalization seems that everyone is your friend and everyone is so close to you. Some people may be seen it as a chance to meet more friends. However, I just think it is terrible that it is no real private space on the Internet. As I said before, I am not a member of xanga but I am still a user of it. Internet or media could be made people “addicted” to them. I hate xanga but I can’t reject its network as I can through it to get many stories or even secrets. This kind of control is the hegemony power that we always talk about. Sometimes we may aware the dark sides of the Internet or media, but we find that we could not resist its influence as we rely on it so much. I can’t imagine that if we someday free on this addition, then can we still survive on this world.

Charlotte