Facebook is a symbol of the party culture occurring in U.S. universities, with the objective of building one's personal network. Japanese people may feel slightly uncomfortable with it.
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Information technology journalist Munechika Nishida, 39, on why Facebook doesn’t do so well in Japan compared to the Mixi service, which allows users to refer to others with similar interests by nicknames. (Asahi Shimbun)
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hoserfella
If Nishida thinks U.S. unis have a "party culture", I wonder what he'd describe the 4 year sleep-in between high school and work they have in Japan?
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