July 10, 2013
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Remembering Xanga: Part 10: Profile Pic Gallery
A Gallery of My Xanga Profile Pictures. 2004-2013
(An updated version of an entry originally posted on 6/6/08.) Some Xangans have had the same profile pic since they joined. Some update regularly. I think perhaps I'm the only Xangan who created a "gallery" of "rotating" profile pictures in the weeks right after I joined the service, with the express purpose of using different pix for different themed posts.
Invariably someone will notice one of the many different profile pics I might insert into a new entry and tell me that they "love the new profile". I've created over 75 sometimes quite creative profile pics since I put this blog online on Memorial Day 2004. Originally, the idea was that each entry would have a "themed" profile pic from whatever age I was writing from that viewpoint. For example, if an entry was about my high school days, the profile pic on that entry would be of me in high school. The first profiles had the ubiquitous dreamcatcher as a "frame" into which the photo was inserted. There were three "motifs" in the beginning, which morphed into the themed blog headers, for which the profiles used the same background. The dreamcatcher is sometimes hidden, but it was (usually) always there up until a few years ago. Shortly after I posted the first "gallery" I created the morph which appears in the upper left hand corner of the blog.
These images are arranged (mostly) from the most current to the oldest. There were a few I did not include because they were either never used or were similar to another one already here in the "gallery". As I did in 2008 I'd like to challenge anyone reading this to do the same kind of entry on your blog, including profile pics you have either used or created. My profile name: baldmike2004 is just one of the many "dated" versions of my "baldmike" profile name I've used on websites since I first went online back in the late 90s.
(This should be Top Blog, don't ya think?)
Comments (11)
I reluctantly give you a rec and a comment. I will message you about what irked me .....
I'm amazed you were able to remember the order. I have used a few over the years but I started out blogging I beleive with the one I am using currently. It's been my favorite in any case. I was proud of this photo lol. I've always been scatter brained when it came to times dates events in general and that includes my own life events. I enjoy my life but rememebering things that happen not my strong suit.
@LadyofWaters - Leigh Ann, I don't have to remember them. I'm anal retentive enough to have numbered them in my "profile pics" folder on my home computer as I created them, so I just went in order. The one I'm using now is "profile94". (I haven't posted all 94 on Xanga.)
@baldmike2004 - lol there more! But I forget you've been on here a long time too.
My own gallery would be very small. For the most part I only use this profile pic, even though the actual birdhouse was destroyed before I even joined Xanga (or shortly thereafter), it's how people recognize me and I've never found another that works as well. (I don't like how I look enough to use my real picture, even on Facebook.
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Love your pics! I may take you up on your challenge....
Loved it! The vampire one was my favorite.
You are mostly smiling. Except when you are not smiling.
You always had the best and best variety of profile pics! The vampire and pirate are two of my favorites! You have the greatest smile! HUGS!!!
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