What is"mixi"

How to register
"mixi"

What is “mixi”?

“mixi” is the biggest on-line networking site in Japan with more than
4 million participants and 60 thousand sub-communities.
There are also a number of participants outside Japan.

How to register for “mixi”

To register yourself for “mixi,” You need an invitation from your friend
who has been already a participant of “mixi.”
If you have such a friend, you could ask an invitation.

What you can do in “mixi”

■Diary (“blog”)

You can upload your sentences and photos like a “blog.”
Also, you can add comments to diaries of other participants.

■Message

You can exchange messages with “mixi” participants.

■Communities

You can join or create a community to share a particular interest
with other articipants.
This is something like creating a website, but as easy as setting a bulletin board.

■My “mixi”

This is informally called “mai-miku” among Japanese participants.
You can add a friend in a “mixi” community to your profile.
This would enable you to check a new diary of your friend easily, for example.

■Photo Album

Besides your diary, you can create your photo album.
You and your friends can add comments to albums.
Also, you might want to limit the access to your album by creating a password.

■Ashiato (footprint)

You are able to know who visited your page and when.
Tracing this “ashiato” might give you an opportunity to make friends.

the link to “mixi” website

■mixi

How to sign in when “mixi” is over-accessed

Even if you cannot go into the “mixi” website because of over-access,
the following links could give you a “secret” access.

■your profile

■your latest diary

■diary composition

■contact to “mixi” administrator

what is “baton” in “mixi”?

“Baton” is to circulate a particular inquiry among “mixi” participants.
You might want to give a “baton” to a person you want to make friends with.
You can also take advantage of this function for your diary topic.
In a normal “baton”, the inquiry content is open,
but you might sometimes want to use “secret baton” in which the content is concealed.

■what is “secret baton” in “mixi”?

”mixi” and your private information

While showing your private information might increase your credibility with visitors, you should also be aware of its risk and control your privacy.

Please feel free to create a link to this website.