Have you ever mentioned a friend in a post and then called them to say “Hey, check out my Xanga!”? Or had a friend mention you in a post, but you didn’t see it until weeks later??

With User Tags, it just got a lot easier to find posts that mention you! A User Tag is a special type of tag that allows you to link your posts to your Friends on Xanga. For example, on this post, I’ve tagged myself and Patrick for programming this new feature .

We’ve added some safeguards to protect your privacy. For now, you can only tag yourself and your Friends, and only your Friends can view the page that lists all the items where you’ve been tagged (click on the username in the User Tags module). In addition, if you’re tagged on another Xanga site, you can still remove that User Tag by visiting the page and clicking on “remove” next to your username (of course, you need to be signed in first).

To add User Tags to your weblog, just open up a New Weblog Entry or edit an existing post:

• http://www.xanga.com/private/editorx.aspx

Please check it out – we’d love to hear what you think!