All About Mixi
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Due to Mixi now demanding Japanese mobile addresses, I can’t invite anyone. Sorry!
If you’re a Facebook or Myspace user, you may be interested in hearing about Mixi. Mixi is the Japanese equivalent of Facebook, basically.
There are a few key differences, however. The primary one is that you cannot just join Mixi, instead you must be invited by a current member. If this is to keep everyone linked together or just so nobody ever has no friends. The point is, if you want to get online and practice your Japanese, you’ll need an invitation. If you comment on this post with an email address I will invite you.The Japanese on the site is obviously a high level. To help, I advise using the Rikaichan Japanese Dictionary for Firefox. From there you should be OK simply highlighting words you don’t understand. Hey, it works for me. The other main difference is that unlike Facebook there is no wall on your profile - instead the site relies on your writing journals or uploading photographs which people can comment on. There are also some communities - if you’re looking for some penpals or whatever, the best way to do it is to find the MSN community and make a post. You’ll get a few people interested in swapping languages ect.
As a bonus, once you’ve signed up here is my profile so you can laugh at my terrible photograph and awful Japanese grammar.
Enjoy!
In Other News my hosting company decided it would be awesome to accidentally charge all their customers for 24 months of future usage by mistake, which lead to all their servers exploding into flames. If you haven’t been able to get on the site recently, it’s all their fault. My apologies. I may be moving hosts soon so bear with me.
!!! Important !!!
Due to Mixi now demanding Japanese mobile addresses, I can’t invite anyone. Sorry!