Tuesday 11 March 2008

Facebook Goes French

Facebook, the popular networking site, is now offering a French language version of the site to its users. This comes after the it began to offer Spanish and German versions of the site in the last month. Before this, Facebook relied on French-speaking members of the site to translate to French to English.

In the past year Facebook has had tremendous growth, even though it has only been published in English until recently. France is one of the 6th most active countries on Facebook.

Users who added the translated application were allowed to submit translations online whilst browsing. Users then voted whether to approve these translations. Settings can now be changed in the account settings section of the site for German, Spanish and French users.
The application can be found here http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=19403427872&b&ref=pd

Facebook is playing catch up with its main rivals Myspace who have their site available in over 20 countries.

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