I have been emailing with the coordinator of a study abroad program and when he discovered I go to the same school as some Japanese girls from the program he asked if I had LINE and if so what was my LINE ID so he could give it to the girls. May have heard of LINE before, but I didn't actually know what it was. As it turns out, according to Rachel from the YouTube channel Rachel and Jun, LINE is the app in Japan and it's important to the friend making process. From what I can tell it is like Skype, social media, photo editor, and small games all rolled into one. Apparently it is quite common when you meet someone to ask for their LINE ID. There is also this magical function where you hit this button on the app and shake your phones near each other and the information is exchanged. Definitely more convenient than typing at times. This function will probably be especially important for me because my LINE ID isn't in Japanese and since it is my name, it uses two letters that don't even exist in the Japanese alphabets. Maybe that is a problem maybe it isn't. Guess I'll find out.
For now I just have a picture of myself for my profile picture and a picture of my cat as the background. There are a lot of really cute emoji type things in the app and I hope to start using it more soon. Don't fully know how it works but I will be learning!
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