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Signing up for Mixi - thecite - 2011-04-15
Anyone know how to sign up for Mixi short of buying a Japanese SIM card? The .edu workaround no longer works.
Frankly, I hope Mixi gets eaten up by facebook with stupid restrictions like this. I hold grudges :mad:
Signing up for Mixi - bodhisamaya - 2011-04-15
If you have a Japanese friend on Facebook or elsewhere, ask for an invite.
Signing up for Mixi - thecite - 2011-04-15
Apparently invites don't circumvent the phone email address thing.
Signing up for Mixi - pudding cat - 2011-04-15
Posts on chiebukuro suggest that it's impossible now without a keitai email address because it's used to verify your age.
Signing up for Mixi - thecite - 2011-04-15
How old do I need to pretend to be? Over 20?
Signing up for Mixi - pudding cat - 2011-04-15
Wikipedia says you have to be over 18.
Signing up for Mixi - thecite - 2011-04-15
I'll give it a shot, thanks. Could you link me up with that chiebukuro post, please?
Signing up for Mixi - thecite - 2011-04-15
Still no luck, unfortunately. They want that damn keitai mail address.
Signing up for Mixi - pudding cat - 2011-04-15
http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1350652603
http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1411552144
These are the pages I looked at. It's not a case though of just pretending to be over 18. The keitai email address is used to verify that you are over 18 so without it, they can't verify your age and you can't join mixi.
Signing up for Mixi - thecite - 2011-04-15
My mistake, I misread that 'impossible' as 'possible'. Yes, I was hoping for a workaround like the .edu thing, doesn't look like one exists. Thanks anyway.
Signing up for Mixi - Bokusenou - 2011-04-15
.Edu emails or invites don't circumvent the Japanese cell phone email thing anymore? That's too bad...I was going to offer invite anyone from this community who asked, when I saw this thread's title, but I guess that won't do any good now...
Signing up for Mixi - thecite - 2011-04-15
I'll accept your kind offer and give it a shot anyway, if you don't mind.
Signing up for Mixi - Bokusenou - 2011-04-15
thecite Wrote:I'll accept your kind offer and give it a shot anyway, if you don't mind.OK, emailed you.
Signing up for Mixi - thecite - 2011-04-15
Thanks, I've sent a reply.
Signing up for Mixi - vix86 - 2011-04-15
Any email ending in .EDU will work.
Signing up for Mixi - thecite - 2011-04-15
vix86 Wrote:Any email ending in .EDU will work.You've tried it recently? My email address ends in edu.au, not sure if that would be a problem...
Many people had been reporting that it didn't work anymore as well.
Signing up for Mixi - Bokusenou - 2011-04-15
thecite Wrote:Invited you.vix86 Wrote:Any email ending in .EDU will work.You've tried it recently? My email address ends in edu.au, not sure if that would be a problem...
Many people had been reporting that it didn't work anymore as well.
Oh, and a friend of mine signed up for an account with an .edu (not edu.au or anything though) in February, but I'm not sure if they changed things since then.
Signing up for Mixi - thecite - 2011-04-15
Thank you.
Signing up for Mixi - thecite - 2011-04-15
Thanks for your help, but unfortunately it didn't work. Maybe it would have worked with a .edu and not a .edu.au address, maybe not. It didn't work with my australia.edu address, but I believe they've already cracked down on people using that.
Damn mixi.
Signing up for Mixi - Bokusenou - 2011-04-15
Darn...Oh well, Twitter's pretty popular with Japanese people...It seems Mixi's kind of lost it's "newness" factor to Twitter, so a lot of my Mixi friends have moved on to there.
Signing up for Mixi - bodhisamaya - 2011-04-15
I have a Mixi account, but haven't signed in since 2007. I guess any social site that excludes teenagers is going to be lacking the originality from user contributions unique to that age group.
Signing up for Mixi - juniperpansy - 2011-04-15
thecite Wrote:Anyone know how to sign up for Mixi short of buying a Japanese SIM card?Do you have any Japanese friends (with a Japanese cellphone)? I got an exgf to make an account for me and then send me the login info. You then can change the cellpohone number after.
Ask your J friends. I'm sure they would be happy to help.