Recently I was looking for an alternative to facebook and myspace and stumbled upon this site. I noticed that the website has excellent navigation and great pictures and layouts that you can use for your page. However when I signed up and started looking for people there is a fee that you have to pay once a month in order to search for people. I think that the fee is not necessary since you are in competition with facebook and myspace however I guess they are looking for higher quality in people. My recommendation, I would look to other free sites before jumping on this trend.

I signed up for my Xanga account about one month ago. I liked the many features the web site had to offer, so I was very interested in browsing the content. I found that the pages loaded very slowly, which distracted me. I have a cable extra fast connection, but the pages were painfully slow. I enjoyed the many groups that were available to join, but the descriptions seemed outdated, and the spam which came from joining them upset me.

I have one friend who uses Xanga.  Because I do not want to become a member and have a blog through Xanga, I am unable to view her blog, even though she wants me too.  I do not like being told that I must sign up with a service in order to use that service via someone else's site.  I feel like they are trying to collect information for their own use when they put regulations on their accessability like that.  Xanga seems to be an OK blog site, but because of their rules I will never have an account there.  My friend who has an account has recently moved on to MySpace for this very reason--none of her friends or family could view her blog.  If you are the type of person who is blogging for yourself and not to share, this is the site for you.