Mixi Changes Friends-List To Display Your Friends’ Full-Names

On June 29, one of Japan’s largest social network service Mixi introduced a change on a view of your My Mixi(also called Maimiku, = friends on Mixi). My Mixi list page [J, login required] now shows you your friends’ full names in parenthesis under their nick names. Number of their friends were displayed in the… Continue reading Mixi Changes Friends-List To Display Your Friends’ Full-Names

“I’m A Russian-Japanese.” – Facebook Beset On Japanese Nickname Judgement

On February 8th, about two weeks ago, Facebook suspended quite a few numbers of Japanese active users who had names which do not sound like Japanese. They asked for the users their real name and copy of ID like passport. It shocked Japanese early adopters who were tasting Facebook backed by media boom, as many… Continue reading “I’m A Russian-Japanese.” – Facebook Beset On Japanese Nickname Judgement