Damn, now I can’t invite just about anyone to Mixi!
Probably because of my previous post advertising free Mixi invites, the staff decided to take a measure!
Now to register as a new Mixi user, you need to enter that thing called “handphone mail address”. Simple, except that I don’t even know what it is. I have a handphone, and all I get with it is the “phone number”. You can’t let the field empty. You can’t fill it with a gmail or yahoo address either.
With some chittery-chat on 2ch irc (#japanese), I got someone to tell me that one valid such address is something@ezweb.ne.jp. I put a random “something”, and it did succeed.
Until I realized that other than confirming from your normal email, you need to confirm from that dreaded “handphone mail address”.
In the end, I only managed to invite 1 person to Mixi… He was lucky to sign up fast.
Tags: 2ch, bother, irc, social networking