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I'm not familiar with Korea, but I don't think there's anything particularly weird about Japanese social media. The obsession with privacy is eroding over time,

I'm not familiar with Korea, but I don't think there's anything particularly weird about Japanese social media. The obsession with privacy is eroding over time, but still relatively strong. Mixi basically died and was replaced with a combination of LINE, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Facebook is popular in some circles, but not nearly as active as in the US. It's almost closer to LinkedIn, like your professional face (even if not strictly about business like LinkedIn). People often have multiple Twitter accounts for different purposes and it's incredibly popular. Maybe the only country where Twitter's still growing? Instagram use is basically the same as the US I'd say. It's helped erode the privacy obsession, with more people posting selfies and such. And LINE is the juggernaut being the primary social graph of Japan. It's the default for one-to-one and group chats, and some people use the other features like the wall-like feature, shared albums, etc.

selimthegrim 9y ago
I really like LINE and wanted to use it but the only person I knew who used it was my Mongolian coworker (I lived in Portland at the time) - everyone else looked at me like I was nuts when I tried to talk it up.
- kurthr 9y ago
  Yes... LINE is the communication protocol in Japan and some of Taiwan. I found the use of much more involved emoticons/stickers interesting. Outside of that WeChat is absolutely critical in China and everyone who needs to work with China. However, not having a bank account in China makes using many of the Wechat capabilities impossible.
6t6t6t6 9y ago
Something annoying about Facebook in Japan is that a lot of people use it for work related relationships. At the beginning it was a bit inconvenient for me because I use it mainly to communicate with family and friends, but I solved this problem by opening a secondary account where I add all the people that I don't want to have access to my private life.

selimthegrim 9y ago

I really like LINE and wanted to use it but the only person I knew who used it was my Mongolian coworker (I lived in Portland at the time) - everyone else looked at me like I was nuts when I tried to talk it up.

kurthr 9y ago
Yes... LINE is the communication protocol in Japan and some of Taiwan. I found the use of much more involved emoticons/stickers interesting. Outside of that WeChat is absolutely critical in China and everyone who needs to work with China. However, not having a bank account in China makes using many of the Wechat capabilities impossible.

6t6t6t6 9y ago

Something annoying about Facebook in Japan is that a lot of people use it for work related relationships. At the beginning it was a bit inconvenient for me because I use it mainly to communicate with family and friends, but I solved this problem by opening a secondary account where I add all the people that I don't want to have access to my private life.