I started writing my 360 blog when I was about at 10th grade, blogging everyday on my parents' laptop and having fun with the self shot mirror pics by my super old Sony Ericsson E** and Motorola V3i ( I guess self taken photo is always a part of teenagers' life- even todays)
. Honestly, I was very "low-tech" at that time by typing the whole blog in without using Vietkey, Unikey or any other Viet software, so it was like: "Chao` mu*ng` cac' ban. de^'n vo*i' Blog cua? Chi" (Chào mừng các bạn đến với Blog của Chi). Then, after a long time running a simple writing blog with no picture (because I had not known how to add image on blog by HTML -lol) and using the "non-visual" Yahoo emotion icons such as :X for 
or ;) for 
, I eventually learnt from other bloggers and started uploading my self taken and friends' pics among text in a post. However, changing avatars or themes were much easier - I remember changing my blog's themes everyday, flowing the stream of my up and down teenage moods 
. My 360 blog, as far as I remember, was very very simple and casual - it was more like a teenager's diary about school and family normal stories - kept in life by the immature, funny but deeply emotional comments from friends (mostly classmates). Although there were always mature but sad posts about people, who no longer are friends or harsh life - lessons learnt day by day that I did not want to read again, I still kept my blog until my second year at college, when Yahoo closed 360 Blog and Facebook begins it's new social network chapter. Blog's closing made million Vietnamese bloggers ( my peers) very sad, they cried on Blog to say good bye, changed the 360 Blog to the Plus Blog, which is also dead nowadays and copied all posts to keep for themselves the "once- in- a- lifetime" memories. I did not ! For me, leaving 360 Yahoo blog was more like growing up or chance to be a different person than who we used to be. I didn't copy any entry - I just left it there,peaceful in the wonderful, lively and colorful teenage world, which, fore sure, never comes back.
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Nowadays, in the year of 2012, young people around this planet go crazy for Facebook (FB), we cannot live without FB, we check FB at least 10 times per day and we even set up FB automatic notification updating 24/7 on my smart phone, email account, i-pad .... It is no wonder why FB experts have been tirelessly figuring out the best ways to cross fire wall and access FB, against the secret effort of government in banning it. FB is really a "social network" with the true meaning of "network" - it connects people around the world, we always can find old friends, make new ones and update our acquaintance just by some clicks. FB is fast and flexible - pictures, status, comments ... all can be posted by any internet access device. There is no need to write a long-long blog entry to update personal thoughts, HTML picture upload becomes an useless tool and we can actually "see" before "read". I <3 FB !
I first created my FB account when I was in U.S.(2008) while still holding on the 360 Yahoo Blog. The first 100 friends on my friends' list were foreigners I met while traveling abroad with free mind and free wings. Everything seemed to be very simple at first. Then, the sudden death of 360 Blog pulled all Vietnamese young people to FB, pushing my friends' list to an unexpected number that forced me to stop adding friends of my friends or FB strangers. Who are they? Do they know who I am? Or they just see my picture on FB of a random person, clicked "Like" button and double click "Add as friend"?? Who are they to have the right commenting on my FB notes or private photos? Again, do they know who I am? FB makes connecting people/ making acquaintanceship so simple that it scares me screw things out of control. I closed the FB searching result, guiding to my account and customized my FB for just friends right in the first week working as a college teacher.
FB sometimes bother me by updating many people, who share pictures and statuses everywhere they go, everything they do, every food they eat, how good they sex they had last night is ... And girls, uploading so many romantic photo albums,, proudly make comments and share with the whole world like it is happily ever after but eventually secretly delete them all after breaking up and creating a new one for new boyfriend. Is there any point of doing such thing?
Once Facebook becomes it's owner's social face, deleting old FB posts doesn't help healing scars, arguing on FB is just like slapping our face and ironically, people would like to unfriend others on FB rather than in reality.
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I still enjoy blogging though, even when this blog does not have many followers, I write for myself - free mind & free wings
