Writing a Post Mixi Diary
In Japanese, Mixi refers to posts as diary entries and what other sites may call your blog, Mixi calls your diary (ni-kki in Japanese).
To write a post, click on the “Posts” button in your Mixi menu bar. It is the 3rd button from the left in Japanese:
Here is a screenshot in English of the menu bar – Mixi English menu bar.
This will take you to your Posts/Diary screen, where you will need to click on the following “Write a post” button as shown below in both English and Japanese:
The next screen you’ll be taken to is where you write the content of your post, it’s title and optionally attach up to 3 images. In English and Japanese:
At the bottom of the screen is a checkbox which allows you to specify wether to resize your images to a Mixi-friendly size or add them to your post at the original size of the photo as is on your computer.
I recommend leaving the box checked 99.9% of the time.
Once you have filled in your title, the body of your post and selected your images, hit the big brown “Confirm Post” button at the bottom and you will be taken to a screen to check your post before it goes live.
Don’t worry too much here, you can still edit your post anytime after you have published it. Now, go ahead and click “yes” which is the left of the two brown buttons.
Now exhale a sigh of relief, your first post is out there for the 10 million or so Mixi users to see (unless you chose in your settings not to allow everyone to see your Mixi pages).
This is the confirmation screen with an advertisement Mixi likes to throw-in:
Now what?
Japanese love to use the “footprints” feature built-into Mixi. This is called ashiato and allows you to see who has been coming and looking at your Mixi pages. We’ll be covering that real soon so stay tuned.