I have opened a renren.com account in order to keep in touch with my Chinese friends!
*Is impressed at own ability to navigate a minefield of instructions in a foreign language* Unfortunately my journey to creating an account was fraught with technical problems that had nothing at all to do with my grasp of the language. Really, nothing.
Problem 1: You have to state your 家乡. Curiously enough the drop-down menu lists only Chinese provinces.
Solution: Filled in 福建 厦门市 — my ancestral land. ~~~ For I know I am but a fallen leaf who must return to my roots… *insert jingoistic message here*
Problem 2: You have to state the school you graduated from. There is no escaping this because the drop-down menu lists every single school in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan - and nowhere else (Are there no home-schooled people in China?!). And an annoying red bar pops up when you try to sneak past this roadblock…
Solution: Always acutely aware of the need for foreign talent, I decided that Kunming High School in Shanghai could accommodate a new member.
Problem 3: Finding out the Chinese names of people in our school. Who would have guessed that Lu Jun’s Chinese name is not 路军, or that Tingyi would have added a ‘小猫’ behind her name?!! Really, you people… some consistency wouldn’t hurt…
After surmounting these not-inconsiderable hurdles, I finally managed to add Anqi!! Yay!
Okay this post ends rather lamely here but I have a flight to Saigon to catch tomorrow morning so I shall go and sleep! TAM BIET!!
I got a QQ account just to keep in touch with xi’an peeps! lols 路军! didn’t have any technical probs with QQ, i could put singapore as hometown, u can just put in fake details anyway. e.g, it says i am engaged.
Oh yes, perhaps I should get one too – just to check, QQ is a messaging service, yes?