Blog VN - improvisation, spontaneous writing

An admin on the TTVNOL forum complained that since the blog spread in Vietnam, the number of quality articles in the site has decreased significantly. Many people no longer post their passionate articles on the forum because there is nothing or they also post on personal web pages first.

According to Technorati search site, the world has more than 44.2 million blogs and every day an additional 75,000 new blogs appear, including religious sites called Godblog. In Vietnam, there is no statistics on the status of personal web use, but it can be confirmed that Yahoo 360 is the number one service.

Not many features, even poorly compared to Google's Blogger or Movable Type of Six Apart, Yahoo 360 "scored" thanks to the simplicity and the ability to automatically announce new changes to the blog via Yahoo Messenger. real time. More specifically, it is compatible with the world's best-known AJAX photo-sharing application photo gallery, now called Flickr. Besides, the 360 ​​number also clearly reflects the community characteristics of the blog. Wandering on strange blogs, clicking on a few connecting lines, many people have shouted "true earth circle" when accidentally met acquaintances . of acquaintances of acquaintances.

Blog tilted 23.5 degrees

" Dear Diary, I am the most unhappy girl in the world. He told my friends that my face looks like a melon ." 15 years ago, a 20-year-old girl sobbed like that in her lovely notebook. Now, Hoai, 35 years old, feels very interesting when innocent young people take the events that happen to them online with a "hi everybody" (not everyone) greeting but don't greet a blog for a sentence. like her old days. She also decided to set up a personal website to post a confidant. " I did not have trouble confessing about my shortcomings and mistakes because I was over that age, " Hoai said.

Most bloggers (bloggers) in Vietnam do not orient the content before creating a blog. Someone is out of curiosity, imitating friends or having the opportunity to "write anything you like". Some even set up blogs just because they want to comment on an interesting article they read on some page. After opening a separate page, bloggers begin to formulate ideas for their blogs. Many people maintain as an online diary in the original sense, others turn it into a private news channel, but there are also countless blogs that are "abandoned".

" Most of my friends build blogs just for fun and share their resources like music, movies, e-books, experiences . for each other. But diary-style articles are still content. Most comments (comments) because they themselves have very high emotional sharing , "said Ngo Vu Anh Tu, an IT engineer in Hanoi.

Blog is like music, high quality album is not necessarily the best selling album. Personal web of lovely (or handsome) bloggers with entertaining content always attracts a lot of traffic and gets to dozens, sometimes hundreds of compliments, while those are philosophical. I just received a few comments like "you thought about it . macro".

The content of movies, music and books on blogs is so high that some people have to say "people of the film and the musician". However, most of the articles are subjective, extolling what they like "attractive . whichever keyboard is descriptive". One of Exorcist's relatively objective and insightful blog reviews - a nickname inspired by the thriller The Exorcist. With intimate vocabularies and simple, yet appealing words, he helps readers gradually explore classic works like The sound of music, Casablanca to songs that live forever with the musician Le Thuong , Van Cao .

There is a blog set up to record memories of the land that has passed through such as Trang Ha, a famous pen of the time in Hoa Hoc Tro Newspaper. Her website includes articles published in newspapers, trip itineraries and life experiences. And Ngọc Binô's blog, a student of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Foreign Languages ​​- Hanoi National University, again "attracted customers" thanks to the innocent, clear and "long-lasting" articles about the school and friends. With a funny explanation: " In addition, I have a long talk about how silkworms go to find mulberry leaves and meet my mother's wives, marry and lay silkworms, just call it new until the release of silk when 'writing. 'it is also long . dreadful '.

Virtual Nick, mind the truth

One can set up dozens of Yahoo Messenger accounts, join all forums with different names. Sometimes in the same forum, in this topic, they play a gentle and vulnerable girl, while in the other topic, they use a new nick to write a song with a jumble, or eagerly register A few nicknames to argue. Conversely, no matter how many people participate in VietSpace, Blogger or 360, it is not possible to think about building 5 or 6 blogs in the same service.

This doesn't mean that the forum is not "real" like a blog. Nearly 54% of readers participating in a VnExpress survey still choose to share information and express their feelings on the forums.

A member of the WTT forum (Young Web) confided: " Through WTT, I feel like the gleam of loving eyes of a mother who cares for her beloved child and blends in the pain of the real wife. When my family had a story, I went to WTT to find warm encouragement and also comforted myself that I was still more fortunate than many others . " WTT members call each other by the names "Tũn mother", "mother Bong", "mother Nhím" and the articles only revolve around the story of the husband and children but attract unmarried people. It's so simple " Topic" . but it is happiness "about the moments of love in the family, but when I read myself, I was in tears. Thanks to WTT, I learned a lot from cooking secrets. Eating well to behave in a way that is true to the two foreign parties , "said Khanh, a student who just graduated from the National Economics University.

Not everyone is brave to admit that he is a gay person on the personal web as a Vietnamese student in the US or desperately tells about the process of divorce by his parents through Yahoo 360 as the girl calling herself "I me mine ". When you need sharing, but you can't talk directly to your friends, the more you don't dare to post on the blog, the more people will look to the forum. "The blog is personal, expressing me higher than the forum, because it reveals the personality and personality of the owner. Forum is where you integrate that self into a community, " Mr. Tu commented.

For some people, the forum is also a huge information store, typical of Vietnam Heart, with knowledge about almost every field from culture, history, astronomy, and music to business. , travel . " I used to think that a forum just takes time with meaningless spam, but it's really wrong. There are many good things to share and sympathize with. More after the dissemination of Lalala members on QuynhonCity - the meeting place of young martial arts people, "Nguyen Thuy Trinh, general administrative staff of an event organization, expressed. " For me, blogging is to give and share what I know, and to participate in forums is to receive and learn from others ."

Share 'luxury' information

Unlike other free forms such as 'chat chit', participating in forums, opening blogs or confiding in the column of readers in many electronic newspapers, many Internet enthusiasts are willing to spend money to buy domain names ( domain) own and invest time and effort to create their own space. VnExpress 's survey showed that this number of people accounted for 14.2%, a large number is not inferior to a blog (19.4%).

With the idea of ​​owning a website for aliens, reporter Le Duy, who writes about technology and mobile phones, did not hesitate to invest in ledmobile.net . The website operator said: " LeD Mobile was created simply to serve interests and this is also a way to share, update information, learn from each other in the online world ".

And Ms. Le Thi Kim Chau, an electronics and telecommunications engineer who is particularly fond of chocolate and beautiful life stories, decided to buy the domain name chocolate.com.vn . " I plan to study website design to build a common house for my friends and like-minded people. The initial cost is also worrisome but after all, doing and sharing what I love is a happiness. ", Chau said.

Normally, users of websites with independent domains often choose international domain names such as .com, .net, .info, and .org because the price is only 10 USD compared to Vietnam domain name is 60 USD. Currently, the cost of building a personal information site including the domain, host is about 300 USD. Therefore, if a person has to give up creating a web site, that page often has to take on some other functions, such as product introduction, advertising .

According to Mr. Luong Van Tri, a graduate student in Business Administration, Ho Chi Minh City Open-Sell University, who gave birth to the idea of ​​setting up a website for the class, the website will be the glue that links people together. wherever it is. Each member only needs to contribute 100,000 VND to build a home on the Internet with full personal information such as a yearbook, and can manage study materials, mailboxes and related news. " Most students in the class support this idea and volunteer to support the board. Initially the site only serves members of the class, and the next stage is to create learning materials from MBA courses and uniforms. every object, "said Tri.

Hai Nguyen - Ngoc Hang