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		<title>Registered for Ameba</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine from Japan, Tatsu, sent me an invitation to a Japanese social networking website called Ameba. I thought this might be a fun opportunity to practice my Japanese. So.. it turns out: it&#8217;s fun AND confusing! I guess social networking websites can be confusing at first glance, but throw in the Japaneseniness© [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A friend of mine from Japan, Tatsu, sent me an invitation to a Japanese social networking website called <a href="http://www.ameba.jp" target="_blank">Ameba</a>. I thought this might be a fun opportunity to practice my Japanese. So.. it turns out: it&#8217;s fun AND confusing! I guess social networking websites can be confusing at first glance, but throw in the Japaneseniness© and your only guide line are pictures. Well, I&#8217;m exaggerating here but imagine the shock I got when I saw this:</p>
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<div id="attachment_58" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 624px"><img class="size-large wp-image-58 " title="ameba" src="http://casmo.paralapse.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/ameba-1024x640.PNG" alt="ameba user page" width="614" height="384" /><p class="wp-caption-text">ameba user page</p></div>
<p>If you&#8217;re used to using social networking sites, the interface designs are usually quite similar so it&#8217;s possible to guess what each link on there says. So yeah so far I&#8217;ve entered some personal information a la favourite food, hobbies, etc. and skipped questions like &#8220;what is your fetish&#8221; and &#8220;are you S or M?&#8221; (pretty sure fetish in this case means passion, and S/M means strong/mild personality, but you know.. just in case..)</p>
<p>Once you&#8217;ve registered with ameba you can make your own little avatar that looks like you (if you desire so, see picture above), and make it run around in a world full of beaches and shit. Of course there are other avatars running around as well, so you get to interact in more ways than just sending messages on a website or blogging. Oh yeah, blogging. My first entry is about a line long and says something along the lines of &#8220;Japanese is hard, I won&#8217;t blog..&#8221;</p>
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