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- jnorris441, on 08/03/2008, -2/+114They just need Japanese specific Facebook apps.
* jnorris441 has shamed his family - WordsnCollision, on 08/03/2008, -5/+105Actually, a domestic social network has beaten both of them to the punch - Mixi. Its main attribute, besides being designed for Japanese speakers, is that it's invitation only - you have to be recommended by an existing Mixi member. Tends to stop most spammers at the gates.
- JKAL, on 08/03/2008, -1/+65Because Mixi has cornered that market already, the only reason Facebook and Myspace get any hits from Japan are from expats living in Japan or from Japan grads who studied overseas and they only connect to keep up with those contacts outside of Japan.
It is not really a cultural thing it just happened that Mixi was there to cater for Japan when the others were concentrating on the US. - Pramma, on 08/03/2008, -2/+61exactly! because spammers don't have friends. ^_^
- inactive, on 08/03/2008, -17/+75We need a new Facebook. Once they let the general population in things went downhill fast.
***** Zombie Apps, ***** the Mini-Feed, I don't want to know everything my friends did in the last 48 hours.
Make a new Facebook for .edu ONLY. It kept the ghetto-fabulousness of Myspace away. - xerexes1, on 08/03/2008, -1/+31As stated in the article.
- erikerikerik, on 08/03/2008, -2/+241,000,000 million strong for .edu only
I see it now. - sandaboy, on 08/03/2008, -5/+25Yet you go on digg and make comments like this. I think your the douche-bag attention hoe.
- zardoz73, on 08/03/2008, -4/+21It's not that MySpace and Facebook are failing in Japan, it's that Mixi is succeeding in Japan.
Eliminate syllogistic thinking. - KingGorilla, on 08/03/2008, -0/+16So is that like a million millions?
- CrushThemTorg, on 08/03/2008, -1/+17Just like back when Facebook was cool.
- SquareWheel, on 08/03/2008, -1/+15Agreed. Since when was it cool to randomly make slurs at other cultures?
- Gee1004, on 08/03/2008, -0/+13lol. Aren't you supposed to get attention? That's what they are meant for.
- kckern, on 08/04/2008, -0/+13Korea has a similar situation. The local social network "Cyworld" (Created by the Korean phone company, SK Telecom) is the dominating behemoth over there, and facebook and myspace aren't even on the map.
- geminister, on 08/03/2008, -4/+17Isn't it obvious - both sites are made to please the western culture. Japan has a quite different culture. Go figure.
It almost feels arrogant to assume that it would work there. - apophenic, on 08/03/2008, -3/+16Did somebody say weeaboo? Because I thought I heard somebody say weeaboo.
- samimnot, on 08/04/2008, -1/+14Had an interesting discussion about MySpace / Facebook the other night, over dinner with friends...
"Their general point was"
They couldn't help but wonder what an impact our next generation would have on society, if they spent as much time studying Math, Science, etc../ after the debate moved back and forth awhile...
"I asked them a simple question"
Is that the same impact we would of had on society...If we had spent as much time studying, as we did listening to Pink Floyd, Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin (8-tracks...lol) while we cruised from one McDonald's to the next?
Needless to say ;-) the conversation quickly turned to another subject...but my point was made. Sometimes it's easy (as adults) to forget our own youthful indiscretions, and be hypocritical about the current generation, etc... - inactive, on 08/03/2008, -1/+12mixi keitai
- ChileanGoD, on 08/04/2008, -4/+15So how did the first mixi user actually got in? I'm baffled.
- ModernChem, on 08/03/2008, -1/+11Precisely.
- sat0shi, on 08/03/2008, -1/+11Far from it. In college I had to SCHEDULE time with my friends. You know how in America you guys just say like "Hey, let's go to the movies." "Yeah! Let's go!"? Well, in Japan it's like:
Me: "Hey, what are you doing next Saturday?"
Friend: "Oh, sorry... I'm working all day."
Me: "Oh, okay... Well, when are you free?"
Friend: "Hmm, probably the next Saturday."
Me: "Okay, sounds good."
Then we go about writing that down in our personal scheduler thingies. This is how people "hang out" in college here. So, I've been on both sides (America and Japan) and I must say that in America you guys are so much more social than here. The only thing we have to be social is our clubs in school, and well those suck. - ericdano, on 08/03/2008, -15/+24Maybe cause MySpace and Facebook suck big time? Thought of that?
- inactive, on 08/03/2008, -15/+24Wow, these are some of the most idiotic comments I've ever read.
- Leonffs, on 11/20/2009, -4/+13If you RTA you would know that they just have their own website for social networking. They're just as negligent about their names and photos as the rest of us.
- positron, on 08/03/2008, -2/+11Japanese, not jumping on the latest trend? Wow. You don't know anything about Japan, do you?
- kolyana, on 08/03/2008, -0/+8Please make sure to film it, get it thrown up on break.com and ensure a friend submits it to Digg.
- sat0shi, on 08/03/2008, -3/+11Ignorance.
Japan's PC web is about 5 years behind America at the moment. 90% of Japanese websites look like they were built in the mid-90s. Japanese people won't have a clue what "web 2.0" is if you ask them. Plus, neither MySpace nor Facebook sounds lame in katakana. Can you go back to watching Naruto now? Thanks. - noblestrife, on 08/03/2008, -2/+9JKAL had it right on the money. Mixi *is* the Japanese MySpace. Functions exactly the same. I have a Mixi account and can testify that the only difference between MySpace and Mixi is in the name.
- ren1999, on 08/04/2008, -0/+7Facebook is just a failure in any market. It lacks many basic features. Go back to LiveJournal, one of the original weblogs, Japan's LiveDoor was based on that and everybody thought that the advertising was great and making the company rich. It turned out that the President was lying about how much LiveDoor was making. LiveDoor was also used as a free dating service and a lot of controversy surrounded that. MySpace might one day become successful in Japan because its members are interested in communicating in English with other people around the world. Facebook isn't easy to access in that way. MySpace is.
- fmorel90, on 08/04/2008, -0/+7Whoosh...
He hacked himself into the databases. - StephnDolenc, on 08/04/2008, -0/+7...or souls
- dengzhi, on 08/03/2008, -0/+7agreed, i mean your title 'why myspace and facebook are failing in japan" you act like foreign social sites are suppose to succeed in japan. then why not ask the question why aren't japanese social sites succeeding in america? ignorant, and arrogant.
it's just like google in China. google will NEVER beat Baidu. No matter how much they spend on advertising, no matter how good their search technology is, it will never take the market share away from Baidu. Why? because Baidu was there first really, made for Chinese, by Chinese. And Baidu actually does search the web better in Chinese than google China. People in China know about google, but not a single person uses it, everyone uses baidu. - Rylock, on 08/03/2008, -0/+7FTA: "A perfect example of a cultural misconception: Mark Zuckerberg recently said in Tokyo one of Facebook’s unique selling points is the usage of real names and photos in profiles. This may be true but it’s exactly what Japanese web users usually try to avoid. "
Please don't tell me you didn't read it yourself... - strictnein, on 08/04/2008, -0/+7Please, let's be civil. Use RTFA, not RTA.
- Myonosken, on 08/03/2008, -2/+9Um, have you tried the new facebook? Those issues aren't really an issue if you just block the application or block app invites from the friend,
- opinionation, on 08/04/2008, -4/+10Japan was social networking while we were all rubbing sticks together to keep warm.
- tehrich, on 08/04/2008, -0/+6You now also have to have a Japanese cell phone to be able to register. So unless you're there for long enough to pick one up (study abroad for example) or live there, you're out of luck.
- CannedCorn, on 08/04/2008, -0/+6yeah, now its a slum like myspace, college education should be a requirement to have an account
- unrealmp3, on 08/04/2008, -0/+6.edu would say to lock it down to US students only. We don't use .edu in Canada.
- Sandkat, on 08/03/2008, -0/+6I enjoy using mixi quite a bit. I find the main attraction being not only is it invite only, but I can also have some semi-intelligent conversations with people on there. The people on mixi tend not to act like your average MySpace rejects. And of course the mobile features are great. While you can't customize your normal mixi page, you can customize your mobile mixi page. It really seems like it was designed around the mobile web first, which probably has a large part to do with its popularity. I probably access mixi more via my mobile than I do my PC. It also helps that all of my real life friends are on mixi as well :p
Plus lately they've been doing some redesigns to the PC site and it's starting to look pretty nice.
For anyone on there, feel free to add me :D http://mixi.jp/show_friend.pl?id=18857156 - 9bpm9, on 08/03/2008, -0/+6Lmao. The Japanese are a hell of a lot more social networking than Americans or Europeans are.
- Daniel591992, on 08/04/2008, -0/+6Same here in Brazil. Orkut is the leader, and the only people who have a Facebook are those who studied in the US or have relatives.
- drewpost, on 08/03/2008, -1/+7and .ac.uk!
- dagamer34, on 08/03/2008, -1/+6So it still still has a web design stuck in the 1990s?
- MrChunks, on 08/03/2008, -3/+8I seem to spend half my day block app invites. I'd like to be able to block ALL applications.
- sat0shi, on 08/03/2008, -0/+5Not exactly true. They don't dislike foreigners, they just dislike foreigners that try to become a part of their society. Most Japanese people LOVE foreigners... as long as they agree to stay foreign.
- sat0shi, on 08/03/2008, -0/+5Oh? And you know this... because?
- stgx, on 08/03/2008, -1/+6I honestly believe the silent majority disagrees with you. Facebook isn't perfect but I certainly appreciate a lot of the features it does have. You can always turn off things in it if it bothers you so much.
- dengzhi, on 08/03/2008, -0/+5US, 1800s?
- inactive, on 08/04/2008, -4/+9Real Answer:
Americans Likes: Wasting time, surfing dumb sites, gabbing about ignorant stuff online or on the phone, anything excessive (items those sites do/have)
Japanese Likes: Prepubescent girls in cartoons, robots, ***** tables (none of which is on those sites)
/racist comment -
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