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.

New York-based Xanga.com and its principals, Marc Ginsburg and John Hiler, will pay a $1 million civil penalty to settle accusations that the social-networking Web site collected, used and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Federal Trade Commission announced a $1 million settlement with the social networking site Xanga.com on Thursday, the largest penalty levied to date under the ...

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 ...

Adi Robertson is a senior tech and policy editor focused on VR, online platforms, and free expression. Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011. It’s a sad day ...

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 ...

Xanga has recently launched a campaign to raise $60,000 to save the site from permanent shut down. Will nostalgic bloggers of the '90s and early 2000s save the site from its impending doom?