I remember starting my first blog on Xanga in middle school. I thought it was so cool that I could journal online. I was uninhibited--I wrote about boys, friends and school. It was my online journal. It was my Xanga--my first "cyber space"to write. Silly me, I didn't realize that it was public and that ANYONE could read it. One day, a friend of mine showed a guy who was really into me my blog. He was an awkward guy who had a nervous hop/walk and drooled in class because he stuck out his tongue while he wrote. Yeah, he had many idiosyncratic gestures. I was so embarrassed because my blog revealed my true feelings about him...I wrote things that I would have never said to him...it was awful. I was mortified. Ever since that experience, I have been careful about what I write and cautious not to offend anyone. So that's my first blogging horror experience.
This is my "adult" blog now. I can write about "mature" content and not have gossip spread like wildfire via the web.
Why am I blogging?
Since I'm going abroad to Brazil soon, I thought it would be really interesting to document and share my thoughts, emotions and life throughout this experience. I'm also considering blogging in Portuguese...but that is way intense. Perhaps when I arrive in Brazil...which is 18 days from today!
the twentysomething year old
- mosaicpieces
- New York, NY, United States
- What makes life so interesting are the risks you take and the people you meet. I've lived the majority of my life fearing the consequences of risks. Well, that's what the twenties are for! I am going to write about my trials and tribulations of being a twentysomething year old in this big world, trying to figure it all out. It's going to be a topsy turvy ride, but that's what being in your twenties is all about.
Omgg I remember xanga!! I had like 3 - One was a normal one, the second was a “Christian” one with my notes from my devotional times, and the third was a boy-drama one =P it’s so weird going back and reading it – I’m shocked I was so open. But I was also super naive. In 10th grade I definitely called out a bunch of people at church for being hypocrites and involved in inappropriate relationships/activities while being leaders in the church…and EVERYONE read it, it went around like wildfire. Later we as a group had to sit around and talk to the youth pastor about what happened. So awkward. And embarrassing. So yep I can definitely relate to the awful blogging experience… thankfully tho we have lives outside of the web and won’t be checking our blogs every seven minutes like we did our xangas…or I did mine. Haha.
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so i went back and started reading my old xanga and it is so fricken embarassing!!
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