Si, Facebook will now speak Spanish
Posted by Fred Derf on 08 February 2008 - 13:33 · 18 comments & 13137 views
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#1 Posted by Darksoft on 08 Feb 2008 - 13:51
- Sí
just wanted to be picky and annoying 
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#1.1 Posted by
markjensen on 08 Feb 2008 - 14:27
- Thanks. Now the "Main" news dropdown reads "Sí, Facebook will now s..."
Improved? I'm not positive about that. -
#1.2 Posted by Fred Derf on 08 Feb 2008 - 14:30
- (markjensen said @ #1.1)Thanks. Now the "Main" news dropdown reads "Sí, Facebook will now s..."
Improved? I'm not positive about that.
I reverted it back to avoid the í tag popping up in unwanted places. Just picture the accent in your mind.
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#2 Posted by nemo on 08 Feb 2008 - 14:01
- ugh. Facebook might as well join with myspace. It's starting to suck just like it.
Too bad it didn't stick to it's roots and only allow college students join
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#3 Posted by +lylesback2 on 08 Feb 2008 - 14:14
- French shouldn't be a huge concern, because all Canadians are required to speak English
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#3.1 Posted by Fred Derf on 08 Feb 2008 - 14:28
- Required? The get core English starting in grade 4. Assuming they learn about as much English as Ontarians in core French programs then I wouldn't go out on a limb and say that they can all speak English (any more than I would say that all Ontarians can speak French).
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#3.2 Posted by Adequate on 08 Feb 2008 - 15:28
- (lylesback2 said @ #1)French shouldn't be a huge concern, because all Canadians are required to speak English
And they say that Americans are ignorant... shame to see people from my own country displaying such bigottry! -
#3.3 Posted by Tha Bloo Monkee on 08 Feb 2008 - 17:19
- What are you talking about? Required? No. I would expect that from someone who isn't Canadian to make such a ridiculous comment.
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#4 Posted by Nas on 08 Feb 2008 - 14:29
- +lylesback2, have you ever heard of France? Supposedly they speak French there...
nemo, they're going for global market share -- they don't care about the quality, only quantity -- so they've since shed their exclusivity. Ironically, many people believe the next big social network (with staying power) is the one catering ONLY to college/university/alumni students and personnel. Everything else is practically done already.
My opinion is this: Fb will keep growing until they are MySpace's size... which is the size of Internet users bored enough to open an account and only use it until its trumped. MySpace will flame out when Fb has taken over its market share; Fb will begin to flame out after the Next Social Network + Service platform is released. -
#4.2 Posted by Adequate on 08 Feb 2008 - 15:16
- Just don't go to that site. No need to get all emolitist over it.
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#4.3 Posted by X@vier on 08 Feb 2008 - 15:47
- (Adequate said @ #4.2)Just don't go to that site. No need to get all emolitist over it.
rofl
~X
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#5 Posted by Tha Bloo Monkee on 08 Feb 2008 - 17:21
- I just noticed this yesterday coincidentally when I was looking through the options. Hopefully they support other languages soon - it'll open the door to other countries!
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#6 Posted by Magallanes on 08 Feb 2008 - 21:07
- On USA, 13% of the population are latinos (35 millions), almost the same number of Canada citizen.
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#7 Posted by sanriver12 on 14 Feb 2008 - 00:17
- HEY
it's COLOMBIA not columbia !!!!!!!!!!!
Facebook's main rival MySpace already supports Spanish, French, German and Italian, including a site for U.S. Spanish speakers and another for French Canadians.
Top 10 Most Active Nations
60% of Facebook's 64 million users live outside the United States including 7 million that live in Canada (suggesting that nearly a third of Canadians use it). More to the point, 2.8 million of those international users live in Latin America or Spain plus there is a growing population of Spanish-speaking people who live inside the United States.