Daily Life as a Gaijin, Episode 18: Beware of Certain Japanese Guys on mixi.

Sorry for the darkness, I didn't feel like adjusting the lighting in my apartment. As long as you can hear me :P

One correction: The 10th was a holiday; school actually started on the 11th.

My negative experiences on the Japanese social networking site, mixi, continue to increase. I'm not leaving mixi, but I changed some settings and made certain information and photos private to decrease the amount of guys messaging me with bad intentions.

Immediately following the incident described...

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Daily Life as a Gaijin, Episode 14: Busy December (Part 2 of 2)

Commentary about my recent experiences on mixi and Japanese social networking.

In 2009 I had an experience with meeting someone in person that had messaged me on mixi, and the encounter didn't go so well. I wrote about it in my blog:

http://sooyong.blogspot.com/2009/05/too-embarrassing-to-call-date.html

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