The irony of such a comment is indeed overwhelming; however….
the reality of the masses wanting to kick it with you because you own a Mac;
well that is just plain strange.

And then there is the question of actually being able to play, read, and compose music..ie musician; which is a whole other matter.

Don’t use it too much but have found some good information through the communities. And, I’m sure it would be a more fun way of putting some Japanese in practice!

(ps, apologies if this comment appears twice, my pc seems to be acting up…)

the enemy of my enemy of my enemy … is that now friend or foe ?

Odd timing that I was asking her about something like this about 10 minutes before reading your post.

I might, in the future, have to try this.

MacTuitui: as I was saying, I’m not overly in favour of these forms of gated communities… Typically, joining one of these networks for the sake of joining it sounds like a waste of time to me. However, provided the underlying idea is to make communication with your friends easier and more convenient, rather than *replace* it, then I don’t see a problem with that. It sounds like in your case, your friends find a direct incentive in using a software such as Mixi to make co-ordination easier: I can’t blame them, I am myself quite impressed by the way it works and see a real use for it, on a very concrete level.
Go ahead, try it, you’ll like it