What’s the Facebook ID？

Thank you for your continued support.

I’d like to share about how to edit the Facebook ID on your profile, because I’ve just had a inquiry about it.

1. Go to your home on Facebook, and check the last line of the URL after “/”. This is your Facebook ID.

2. Go to your home on Lang-8, point to your user name in the upper right-hand corner, and then click on ‘Edit Profile’ in the drop-down menu.

3. Type in your Facebook ID and select the ‘Access Settings’. Click on the ‘Submit’ button. And then you’re done.

4. Go to someone’s profile, and click the Facebook ID. You’ll then be taken to Facebook automatically. 

About the ‘Like’ button.

Thank you for your continuing support.

You can let the writer of an entry know quickly that you like the entry by clicking on its ‘Like’ button. Click on an entry’s ‘Like’ button to let the author of the entry know how you feel about it.

1. There is a ‘Like’ button displayed in the lower left corner of every entry. Click on it.

2. The message “You like this entry” is shown after clicking the button.

3. The notification is shown next to your user name in the upper right corner, when someone clicks on the button of your entry.

Let’s try to use this button!

*You can’t cancel the click.

* Notifications of comments or corrections are shown at the top of your home page as usual.

How can I introduce my friends?

1. Go to your friend’s home page, and click ’ Post a testimonial’ at the bottom of the page.

2. Type the testimonial in the box, please click on the “Post a testimonial” button. 

There is another way.

1. Click on ‘My Friends’ through in the your user name at the top of your home  page.

2. Click on ‘My Friends Settings’.

3. Select the member you wish to remove and click “Post a testimonial”.

4. Type the testimonial in the box, please click on the “Post a testimonial” button. 

How to check the ‘My Friends’ list.

1. Click on ‘My Friends’ through in the your user name at the top of your home  page.

2. Check your friends list.

If you want to remove your friends, click on here.

If you want to post a testimonial of your friends, click on here.

Let’s use the ‘Add Favorite’ function!

Are you using the ‘Add Favorite’ function now? You can keep your favorite users listed with this function. If you haven’t added these users as friends, you can still check out the journals you’re interested in or find useful. You can correct the journals of people you aren’t friends with by using this function and hopefully add them to your friends list.

1) Go to the homepage of the user you want to add.

2) Click on the ‘Add Favorite’ button at the bottom of the user’s photo.

3) You will be asked, “Do you want to add the following members to your Favorites?” Choose “Yes”.

You’er finished!

You can manage your ‘Favorites’ list and check its status by selecting the ‘Favorites’ option on the drop-down navigation panel.

And you can also choose ‘Show’ or ’ Hide’ to manage the “Latest entries from your Favorites.” We hope that this function will help you improve your language skills. :)

Thank you.

How to use the ‘Preview’ button for each correction.

Thank you for supporting us.

Today, I’ll show you how to use the “Preview” button in correcting. 

1) Display the window for correcting a journal by clicking on the “Correct” button. Type your correction for one sentence and then click on the ” Preview” button.

2) The preview of your correction is now shown.　※ The correction is not posted yet. 

3) If you want to modify your correction, click the “Correct” button again.

4) Modify your correction and then click on the ” Preview” button, again.

5) After completing your changes, click on the orange ”Post corrections” button.

You’re done!

What is the ‘with native lang’ ?

If you write your journal with your native language, you can see a gray-colored “With native lang” label next to the title like a following picture.

If you want to know how to write with your native language, please refer to the “Write in your native language”  feature.

How to share a new entry on Facebook

Thank you for always supporting us.

From now on, you can share a new Lang-8 entry on Facebook.

1) Edit your journal.

2) Click on the ‘+ Display option’.

3) Click on the box that says, ‘Post this entry to Facebook’.

4) Publish the journal.

5) You can choose to share your post with friends, friends of friends or make the post public.
　（The first time you choose share an entry, you’ll be taken to Facebook automatically)

6) Your journal will be posted to your timeline on Facebook.


That’s it!



※There’s another way to change your Facebook settings.

Please select the drop-down navigation panel, accessible through the top navigation bar on ‘My page’.

Choose ‘Setting’→Click on ‘Other Setting’.

1) Choose ‘Setting’.

2) Click on ‘Other Setting’.

3) Click on the ‘connect’ button to bring you to Facebook.

You’ve finish!

※An additional note

You can disconnect from Facebook at any time, or choose whether or not you ‘post to Facebook by default’.

To do this, choose ‘Setting’→Click on ‘Other Setting’.

You are able to easily control your preferences this way.

I hope you will continue to use our service.

Thank you.

About L points and User rankings by L points

Thank you very much for using Lang-8.

Lang-8 is a language exchange web service, so it is very important that users not only enjoy receiving help from native speakers, but also correct other user’s entries in return.

So we decided to change the system so that the more you correct the more corrections you receive.

If you correct many entries and get L points, your entry will be shown at a higher line on the “Correct” page.

In particular, you can get L points when you are correcting other’s entries, receive thanks points, or get a native nods.

Your L point rankings are based on the amount of L points earned in the past three days.

The more you correct and the higher the quality of your corrections (as is evaluated by other users), the more L points you will receive. Additional rules regarding the L point system will be added later.

We hope this new system will help you, as well as increase the corrections on your entries.

*This change applies only to “Correct” page, but not “My Home”.

Premium users’ entries are still shown higher on My Home’s column as it was before.

 You can confirm your L points on the “My Home” page or your profile page.

Thank you very much,

Lang-8 Team.

Facebook / Twitter login now available!

We are happy to announce you can now log in to Lang-8 using your Facebook or Twitter profile. If you already have an account, follow these steps to connect your account to your service of choice:

1) Login to Lang-8 with your existing account.

Note: If you attempt to link your accounts without logging in, a new Lang-8 account will be generated instead.

2) Select “Settings” from the menu, then select the “Other Setting” tab.

3) Put either your Facebook or Twitter account in the blanks and click “Connect”. 

Then you’re done! Twitter users can have new posts automatically posted, with Facebook support coming in the near future.