Taking social networks abroad - Why MySpace and Facebook are failing in Japan

Clearly it's because Mixi is written in Perl, and Japanese people love Perl!

I work in Tokyo, and I've noticed the only people who seem to have Facebook accounts are students who studied abroad and those who spend a lot of time socializing with foreigners.

its because people are nationalistic, they think to themselves: "why should I support american greed when I can get the same experience from a native site"

<i>But the Japanese market isn’t lost yet for MySpace and Facebook, despite Mixi’s dominance. If millions of Americans don’t mind registering to multiple social networks, why should the Japanese?</i><p>Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the trend was the opposite one? That people are getting fed up registering at 100 different networks and sticks to the few "big" ones they've already signed up for?<p>Ofcourse, I'm not going to pretend my behaviour is the norm, where mixi and LinkedIn are the only networks I bother with. For local friends, timezones not being an issue, phone and MSN works fine.