La Donna's blog!

January 28, 2006

Hi Lo Donna,

I saw your blog, but I cannot leave a comment because

of a horrible experience I had on Xanga. I would like

to take this opportunity to warn everyone out there

NOT open up a Xanga blog and especially not to read a

Xanga blog.

Someone recently opened up a Xanga blog using my

e-mail address, which is why I changed my e-mail

address. My computer was virused when I got the

" Welcome to Xanga " message. I was shocked because I

did not open up a Xanga account, although I used to

have one. I went into the site so I could report it

and get it shut down. My friend also helped me by

going in there. She gave me the e-mail address to

Xanga to report abuse, and I sent in my complaint to

Xanga about someone falsely using my e-mail address

to start a blog with anti-semitic comments about

another Xanga site.

The next thing I knew my friend's computer had crashed

and mine was going haywire.

I would also like to warn you that Xanga has some very

questionable adults opening up blogs. They have moms

and dads with blogs that appear to be decent,

professional people. Then they start socializing

online with underaged people. Then more and more they

start posting about porn. If you comment to them with

any criticism, they blow up.

Just do not ever go into XANGA and never read it. You

will be sorry. I, personally, will never blog again

because I have a son who will open a blog if I do, and

I don't want him reading these sites of moms and dads

that appear to be so witty, funny, and clever and then

start posting about porn and are engaged in heavy

online contact with the underaged community. I need

to protect him from that, and the only way I can do

that is not to have a blog myself. My son's fave site

was a woman, who was a professional mom, that started

posting about porn and calling ANYONE a stalker who

criticized her.

It was scary.

Shoshanna

January 28, 2006

Hold on, you can't tell any one not to use xanga just because you had abad

experience. I have been using xanga for about 4 years. Yes there are

questionable people using xanga, but that's the case with most things on the

world wide web (www). If you find some thing offensive, no matter what website,

then report it, if you find child porn then REPORT it! Do a google search and

find the correct website to report those types of things to. People get viruses

every day, even from microsoft. So saying not to go to xanga you will be sory,

well you can say that about 99% of the websites out there. You don't even need

to go to a web site to have a trojan or even a virus installed on your computer.

For instance; if you use any type of chat program (aim, msn messanger,

messanger, icq, etc) it is easy to get your IP address from those. You have to

know what to do and what not to do to protect yourself from any virus. You can

set up firewalls have loads of anti virus software,

have cookies disabld - have pop ups blocked, use a spam gaurd in your e-mail,

have anti virus software with your e-mail; the truth is having all of this will

prevent most viruses and trojans but NOT all. I suggest you don't go bad

mouthing any company just because you made a mistake by opening up an e-mail.

Xanga probably didn't even send you that e-mail - sure it migh look like xanga,

but it probably wasn't. How many microsoft e-mails do you get that aren't

really from microsoft? My point is, you can never really be sure. If you don't

know what it is then don't open it. Paypal even has an e-mail being sent out

saying some thing about some one being added to your paypal account, and they

provide a link for you to click on to log in and verify the person added and as

SOON as you click on that link and log in that person is automatically added to

your paypal account unbeknownst to you. People are extremely tricky, and will

stop at nothing.

As far as your child goes, use parental blocks for websites you know may be

harmful.

I personally am NOT sorry when I frst joined the xanga community 4+ years ago.

I have had nothing but good experiences with them. Sure, if I wanted to I could

look up child molesters on there, but why would I? If you don't want to find

some thing, then don't search for it.

Sho K <write2thisemail wrote: Hi Lo Donna,