Hi there, friends! These past several days, I've been trying my best to catch up with a schedule that I had set up for myself to manage all five of my blogsites that are currently running and hosted by Blogger. Just by glancing at the schedule at times, the amount of work with so many articles I had assigned for myself to write seems quite overwhelming. But I can't really complain or place the blame on anyone but myself. Afterall, it was I who had created this schedule. I am the culprit, as well as the willing, participating victim. On Tuesday, my schedule would come across a screeching halt, as I was forced to be held back from posting my list of articles I had planned for my blogsites when I came across a disturbing dilemma with my Facebook account. I first learned of this dilemma sometime early in the morning that day. As I would usually do with all my other articles once posted on any of my websites, I would read them over and then share them on my accounts and pages set up on other social media network websites such as Pinterest, Twitter, Google Plus and Facebook. After posting an article I had just written on Amerasian/ Eurasian Forum about Hollywood actress Olivia Munn, I then realized that I had been blocked from such activities on Facebook like posting, sharing and sending private messages due to some inappropriate activities that had recently taken place on my account. Right then, I knew that my account had been hacked. It had been about a two or three days since I had last logged onto my Facebook account, so really, how could any inappropriate activities have taken place?
It took a while for me to finally get into my Facebook account, since this time whoever that had hacked my account really went to extremes to take over my identity and and seal me off from ever accessing my account on Facebook again. This has happened before, but never quite as frustrating as this time around. Everything had been changed and modified with my personal information on Facebook except my name, it seemed. Where I lived was now in Hanoi, Vietnam, where I worked was for some organization based out of Hanoi, my password, my email address, just about everything I had originally entered as my personal information had been changed which made it nearly impossible for Facebook to contact me given how the two email addresses that I have been using for years had been wiped out. Even the language was changed from English to Vietnamese on my Facebook account. That probably was what presented my biggest obstacle when trying to regain access. English is my primary language and what I consider to be my native language as well, despite how it technically isn't my first language. I had learned both Vietnamese and French years before I began speaking English, and even though I am still able to speak these two languages today, in comparison to my level of command in the English language I can only say that I'm now on a communicative level of proficiency in Vietnamese and French, whereas English would be by far the language I'm most comfortable with. One can only imagine just how challenging it was for me to follow the step by step instructions all in Vietnamese in order to regain access on Facebook, as I didn't even know what the Vietnamese term for the word "password" is. It took me hours before I was finally granted access back into my Facebook account. But even then, my problems on Facebook with this hacker were far from over. I thought that once I was able to reset successfully a new password that my Facebook account would be secured and the hacker would then be blocked from any further activities. But that wasn't the case. Each of the three times I would change my password, within seconds I'd see more and more private messages and/ or postings sent out by this hacker to my list of friends on Facebook that contained pornographic material and the most offensive language. What made it even worse was that Facebook still had my account frozen. I was blocked from using any such features like posting, sharing and even commenting. All I could do was just watch how this monster that had hacked my account continue with his quest to sabotage my image, as my Facebook friends would send me messages after messages expressing their disgust and outrage with me. Most of them were shocked thinking just how could I dare send them such filthy messsages. Thank goodness, there were a few that knew better and acknowledged how they knew that my account must have been hacked. That was really encouraging. But I couldn't even reply to those few friends with a simple thank you. Most of my other Facebook friends weren't as understanding and had sent me rather feisty messages expressing to me his or her anger. Some even notified me that I would be deleted on his or her list of Facebook friends because of this matter. I must have lost about 50 or so Facebook friends that day. The whole experience was really a complete nightmare.
You're probably thinking, so how would this affect my postings on Blogger? Well, Facebook, just like Blogger, is a social media network website. Like a lot of bloggers, all of my accounts on such social media network websites are linked together. When something goes wrong with one of them, the rest are affected. Even though it is not one of those website where I am able to make money from directly, as I do on YouTube, Tumblr, HubPages, and now with Blogger since some of my blogsites have recently been monetized, what Facebook does for my articles that I post on my blogsites hosted by Blogger is that it serves as a major traffic source. In addition to my personal account that has a total of 5,000 friends, I also have created three Facebook pages that are directly linked to my blogsites hosted by Blogger, which means whenever I post an article, by sharing them on Facebook, these articles are given an exposure to a potential audience of roughly 10,000. For a newbie blogger such as myself, that's rather a huge chunk taken away from my current total viewership potential. With that said, I'm sure, one can understand just how frustrating it was not to be able to share any of articles posted on my blogsites. I mean, really, what good would it be to even publish these articles if nobody is going to read them? That's just like if a singer had to perform on stage to an empty audience.
During these past several days, without the ability of sharing any articles on Facebook, rather than posting them on my blogsites I have worked on writing them without the usage of my computer. I've since compled writing about a dozen of these rough drafts. All I have to do now is post them. Now that everything has been cleared up with my Facebook account and I've been granted with full access to post and share articles, I'll be typing them up and posting them on my blogsites for everyone to read soon. My next three upcoming articles to be published on ThienPhuViet-Singer.Blogspot.com are entitled as How I Lost 100 Pounds, What's Next? and My Teacher Known as the Timeless Voice, which is an article I have written in honor of my voice teacher, the legendary Thai Thanh. These should be posted soon, so check them out. I think you'll find these articles to be rather enjoyable to read. As for my activities on my other blogsites, on NgocLanRemembered.BlogSpot.com look forward to reading the next scheduled posting which will be entitled as Did You Know Ngoc Lan Could Also Sing in Chinese? On VietCeleb.Blogspot.com, the next featured Viet celebrities with full bios and tributes to be posted are as follows: La Thoai Tan, Tang Thanh Ha, Vu Linh, Elvis Phuong, Hong Nhung, Manh Quynh, My Tam, Bebe Hong Suong, Cuong Vu, Minh Tuyet, Duc Huy, Thanh Tuyen, Shayla and Leyna Nguyen. This site has just gone off. Thanks, by the way, to everyone for your viewership on VietCeleb. On ClubLai.BlogSpot.com, check out my tributes to singers Marie Louise, Van Anh and Tuan Kiet. And last but not least, how could I leave out my blogsite, MrKoolKat.BlogSpot.com? I'll be posting several adorable photos of my feisty mother cat, Sheba. Trust me, you'll end up loving her as much as I do.
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