about j-penpals

[TwistedMac]

i've gotten a few j-penpals the last few days due to an add i just sorta placed on a site (got the addy from this forum.. somewhere) anyway, i've been getting atleast one new penpal / day since then and they all happen to be japanese girls XD

i know you think i somehow made my add "girls only" or something, cuz that would be what this hentai baka would do, right? but i didn't!

anyway, this one girl, after a 3 mails she sends me a mail going "oh yeah, this is the mail to my phone"... and a really long mail addy.. now.. i get it.. i can send her mail to her keitai, sure.. but.. what the hell does she want me to start sending? i barely know her!

and will my messages even show up on her screen? i heard people here had problems with it...

is it so big to get your mail on your phone in japan that she wants me to do this instead of mailing her cuz it's "more practical"?... or do i keep mailing her *mail*? cuz as much as they advertise for it here, everyone i know gets their mail on the 'puter.. I as many others consider it more handy...

is she trying to tell me to send funny little snippets of crap on her keitai?

i don't get it, why do i want her cellphone's mail?

 

[TimF]

T. Mac where did you post this pen pal add?

As for the phone maybe it is more convienet for her.

 

[TwistedMac]

looked it up =P www.japan-guide.com ^^ really great penpal system!

arch was he who introduced me to the site..

 

[Keiichi]

I'm sure she can read it if you use the right encoding to send to her. I'm not sure if you read my little story/rant on that other cellphone post with my old j-epal who used a cellphone for email.
I think the encoding I used was Shift-JIS.
As mentioned, the phone may be more convenient to her. The one I had looked at her mail at school and stuff and nearly sent a reply (when it was short) to me fairly instant, and tells me she's on a break at school and what not... ^^'' Maybe just try not to send to large of a message, because I think charges for emails are charged by the size of what they send/receive, like for web browsing.

Yeah, you can get tons of penpals on j-g.com. It's mostly girls that are interested, I think, so you'll probably get more girls replying to your ad. If you know what's good for you, try not to reply and make friends with all of them. It's going to be difficult to keep up. ^^' Try to pick one or two who's reply sounds interesting to you and stick with it. You can always repost your ad later if you can't find a good penpal.

 

[TimF]

I Posted My Ad!!!

 

[byp]

i've gotten a few j-penpals the last few days due to an add i just sorta placed on a site (got the addy from this forum.. somewhere) anyway, i've been getting atleast one new penpal / day since then and they all happen to be japanese girls XD

i know you think i somehow made my add "girls only" or something, cuz that would be what this hentai baka would do, right? but i didn't!

anyway, this one girl, after a 3 mails she sends me a mail going "oh yeah, this is the mail to my phone"... and a really long mail addy.. now.. i get it.. i can send her mail to her keitai, sure.. but.. what the hell does she want me to start sending? i barely know her!

and will my messages even show up on her screen? i heard people here had problems with it...

is it so big to get your mail on your phone in japan that she wants me to do this instead of mailing her cuz it's "more practical"?... or do i keep mailing her *mail*? cuz as much as they advertise for it here, everyone i know gets their mail on the 'puter.. I as many others consider it more handy...

is she trying to tell me to send funny little snippets of crap on her keitai?

i don't get it, why do i want her cellphone's mail?

what's your problem ?
there is no problem. you asked for a pen pal. you got one. so what, now ?

 

[Arch]

hehe yea j-g.com is pretty damn good. I have alot of j-friends, and they are also mostly all j-girls. Purely because they are really interested. As for your j-friend errrr... i dont know, prob just more practically, or she may be abit devilish and maybe wants you
Anyways good luck with ya j-friends, ill chat to ya on msn about it some time

 

[TwistedMac]

what's your problem ?
there is no problem. you asked for a pen pal. you got one. so what, now ?

i was wondering if this was common?.. do i start sending mails to her phone or do i just keep sending to her "real" mail?

 

[byp]

i was wondering if this was common?.. do i start sending mails to her phone or do i just keep sending to her "real" mail?

dont ask me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
like nike said : just do it !!!!!
just do what she says !

 

[Keiichi]

Do what she says. It's not uncommon to receive email on their cellphone, so just do it.

 

[TwistedMac]

Do what she says.

that's kinda the thing =P

after a long mail she sent another with just "oh yeah, and this is the mail to my cellphone: [email protected]" it's not like she mentioned it at all in the mail before it..hmm.. oh well.. i've sent a test-mail to her phone now =/

 

[Ewok85]

She wouldnt check her pc mail much, send it to her phone.

I had an ad on there sometime early last year and met a ton of interesting people, about 3 of which im still in contact with (many just drop off or go 'oh? not american' etc and lose interest). Met some of the people, and updated and got some more hits of japanese people who study at/near my uni and would like to meet. I get to play tourguide from this week

 

[Gaki]

I used to have loads of Japanese penpals, either i got bored of them or they got bored of me.

Longest penpal i've had is almost 5 years.

But yeah anyway, i think alot of Japanese girls like using cel-phone mail because their phone beeps when they get mail or something. My friend explained it to me once but i wasnt listening.

 

[TwistedMac]

"*bleep* oh i'm so popular, hold on, i've just gotta read this mail from someone probably really important!"

that's the spirit ^^

 

[Keiichi]

Maybe they just don't have enough attention, or want more. You know how the Japanese likes to dilly-dally around with their cells. Perhaps there isn't enough to dilly-dally around with.

 

[TimF]

Think about it T. Mac how would you feel if it happened to you if you and a friend were at a cafe or something and then...*BEEP* hold on I got an email from a girl-friend of mine in Japan.

*Notice girlfriend does not have to mean relationship wise.*

 

[TwistedMac]

in sweden girlfriend=flickvﾃ､n (girl= flicka, friend=vﾃ､n) and the swedish word for it can only mean relationshipwise =P

so i'm saying that doesn't quite work here.. unfortunatelly XD

 

[RockLee]

Japanese have this e-mail thingy on their cell..and it's quite populair ATM...and she prolly doesn't have to sit after the computer the whole time


Ps..I brag about my J-friend the whole time

 

[TwistedMac]

you brag about everything all the time

but your j-friend is definatelly bragging material she be cute!

 

[TimF]

in sweden girlfriend=flickvﾃ､n (girl= flicka, friend=vﾃ､n) and the swedish word for it can only mean relationshipwise =P

so i'm saying that doesn't quite work here.. unfortunatelly XD

Well you get what i am saying dont you?

 

[TwistedMac]

gotcha (message too short my ***!)

 

[Brooker]

I often send my j-friends two e-mails, one to their computer and one to their keitai. They sometimes don't check their computers so often, but they'll get the keitai message right away. Don't worry about it at all! It's very convenient for them to use their keitai to do just about everything a normal computer can do.

 

[-悪魔-]

I have to concour with this. I posted a pen-pal ad only 3 days ago, and ive gotten emails from like 5 girls and 1 guy. In my ad I said that I will talk to any age and gender and, so I have no idea why the majority of people who applied to me are girls.

I'm fine with that tho, but too bad I have a girlfriend already =/

 

[Keiichi]

I think that's because mostly girls are interested in studying English or some kind of foreign culture. In my University (of Hawaii), the gender ratio (from what it looks like to me) of girls to guys studying abroad is like 15 to 1. I would say this should probably be similar to online also.

 

[Ewok85]

I think that's because mostly girls are interested in studying English

Yeah, I've met quite a few people here on exchange from Japan and theres alot more girls than guys here.

Same thing in my Japanese class at uni, most of the students are female. I wonder why? Plenty of guys on jref are interested in japan (or more so japanese people )