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用户不买帐,日本社交网站Mixi新功能尴尬退场

发布时间:2010-12-07 15:41:10 Tags:,,

在11月30日,Facebook在日本的竞争对手、日本三大社交网站之一Mixi,刚刚推出了一项新功能,支持用户通过输入电子邮箱地址,查询该好友在Mixi上的资料。但很不幸,因为不少Mixi用户的集体抵制,这项新功能才出世几天就被迫撤销。

Mixi announced their temporary withdrawal of the function

Mixi announced their temporary withdrawal of the function

据游戏邦了解,在Mixi推出这项新功能之前,用户可以通过输入电子邮箱地址,邀请对方成为好友,但并不能获知对方是否也是Mixi用户,也不能看到对方在Mixi上的资料。有了这项新功能,大家就都能以电子邮箱为线索,查看对方在Mixi上的个人信息。

但因为大多数用户都将Mixi视为一个封闭、私密、仅限好友的社交网站,所以新功能才刚刚登场,就遭到了用户的抵触。许多用户在Mixi只喜欢与校友聊天,但不喜欢被公司同事发现,所以大家都对新功能有点惶恐。也有些用户登陆Mixi只是为了消遣解闷,从来只用网名和虚拟头像行走江湖,也开始害怕新功能会让自己现出原形。

由于越来越多用户的联合抵制,Mixi迫于压力不得不在12月2日宣布暂时撤下这项新功能。

据称许多日本用户都不希望在Mixi上与现实生活中的同事、同学、家人和亲属有什么交集,而Mixi却偏偏乐衷于把自己打造成像Facebook一样的平台,独独没料到这种新功能并不适用于日本用户。

游戏邦还发现,Mixi在12月1日还调整了“信息公告”的功能:

*系统将提示:您的好友添加了新朋友;

*系统将提示:您的好友加入了一个新群体(“私人”群体除外)。

看起来这也Mixi效仿Facebook的一个明显动作。

但这次功能调整同样难免狼狈的下场,只引来了用户的嘘声一片。据称已遭到了15个用户群体的抗议,其中有一个名为“Activity Kinou Yamete”(抵制新功能)的群体在短短一天时间内就纠集了5万名成员。颇为讽刺的是,该群体还通过Mixi的“信息公告”将反对之声传达给许多Mixi用户。(本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译,转载请注明来源:游戏邦)

Mixi Gives Up New “Search Friends By E-mail Address” Feature After Harsh Rejection

On November 30th, Mixi, Japanese counterpart of Facebook, one of the three biggest Japanese social network service, introduced a new feature [J, requires Mixi log-in], which allows you to search your friend on Mixi from his/her e-mail address, which makes Mixi step into real life networks side.

Before the change, you could invite your friend by giving his/her e-mail address, but you could not know if the invitee were using Mixi, could not see the invitee’s profile on Mixi. However, this change enabled you to search anyone whom you know the mail address on Mixi.

As most Japanese users use Mixi as a closed, friends-only network, this change shocked a lot of users. Many users who communicate only with friends from school, who do not want to be caught from office colleague, now feel unsafe. Others who makes network with hobbies, never showed their real name and/or face behind nicknames and illustration icons, now fear for being found by real life friends.

Refusal response on this new feature from users soared, and today, December 2nd, third day from the release, Mixi announced their temporary withdrawal of the function [J].

Many Japanese users do not want to be linked on Mixi with acquaintances from work, school, families and relatives. But Mixi has been expressing their interest in becoming like Facebook in Japan recently.

Activity Notification

There was also another big change made yesterday, December 1st. The “Saikin no Ugoki(Activity info)” [J] does,

•notify when your friends add a new friend

•notify when your friends join a new community (“private” communities are not informed)

which seem to be imported from Facebook.

This function is also causing storm of denials. There are about 15 new communities established by users to protest this feature. One of them, “Activity Kinou Yamete”(Stop Activity Function) community gathered over 50,000 members within a single day. Ironically, the new community join notification feature spread this protest so rapidly among Mixi users.(source:asiajin)


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