The trend of recalling Yahoo! Messenger on Facebook

On April 13 and 14, users social network Facebook in Vietnam race to post old photos from about 10 years ago to remember Yahoo! Messenger, an internet messaging service that “stormed” the first generation 8x and 9x.

Photos “once to remember” are many Vietnamese people posted, reminiscent of the heyday of Yahoo! Messenger Screen capture

This trend received a fairly early response from some “stars” in Vietnamese showbiz such as Van Mai Huong. Very quickly, the Vietnamese online community simultaneously showed off their “bygone era” to their friends.

Thuy Chau (HCMC) is an 8x “middle life” so “a youth” associated with Yahoo! Messenger. She said that although she did not know where the trend of re-sharing pictures of the “young Yahoo” era came from, “seeing that everyone was having fun, I played along. I thought I was playing Yahoo! 360 in the morning”, the girl was playing. is one of the “hot TikToker” in Vietnam shared.

The young images of Chau or many others who are following this trend are not actually taken from Yahoo! Messenger or Yahoo! 360 (the popular blogging service of the once “internet giant”) because these services have all closed and cannot access old data again. They reused images posted from the beginning of using Facebook when this social network began to be popular in Vietnam around 2007-2010. At that time, many users used both Yahoo! and Facebook as communication channels with friends and relatives.

In addition, some people still keep memories on storage services or old memory drives on the computer. During the heyday of Yahoo!, online photo sharing services like Photobucket and Flickr were popular and popular in Vietnam. In particular, Flickr allows users to save photos in original quality and is still trusted by many people today. This is one of the old photo stores that help users easily find their childhood through photos.

Unlike some trends of using photo editing applications that have been warned by security experts about the risk of personal data loss or information theft, what is happening on Facebook this time is relatively new. … safe. Most of the images used are old photos, which were posted on the platform itself and without any third-party editing programs. The attached content is also fun, and “teencode” is a big challenge for AI (artificial intelligence) to read and understand because many people may not fully understand the content of these words.

Yahoo! Messenger officially stopped working from July 2018, leaving many regrets for users world in general and in Viet Nam in particular. This is a messaging application on the internet that was widely used in Vietnam before Facebook appeared and was gradually replaced by the program. Messenger.