Do you remember Xanga? It was a pretty formidable blogging platform in the early ’00s, home to the anguished missives and painful flirtations of teens and young adults the world over.

Once upon a time, long before Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook, there was a web blogging service called Xanga. This site launched in 1999 originally as a space to share book and music ...

Xanga.com, a social-networking and blog site, has been ordered to pay $1 million in a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission for violating the Children's Online ...

Word on the street is myspace and xanga are no longer cool. A 7th grade student told me: “It just got old!” Blogging at xanga.com was all the rave in the middle school earlier this year.

Social networking Web site Xanga.com will pay $1 million — the largest penalty ever issued for violations of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act — for ...

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I used Xanga, and then LiveJournal. When Facebook launched, I traded both platforms, and decided I'd communicate my goings-on by updating my favorite movies and TV shows. In the late 2000s ...