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Coming Soon: Facebook in Your Language
August 6th, 2007
By now, Facebook’s penetration of American Internet life is well known…
- 90% of US college students have Facebook accounts, and half of them login every day.
- Professionals are increasingly migrating their professional networks from LinkedIn to Facebook.
- Facebook is increasingly replacing email as the default communications platform for informal messages between students and non-urgent messages between professionals.
However, less attention has been paid to Facebook’s growing international presence. While other social networks have dominant leadership positions across Europe, Australia, and Asia, Facebook’s penetration is on the rise — at least in the English speaking world…
- 11.4 million, or 33% of the Canadian population, has joined Facebook as of June 2007, making up over 10% of the total Facebook population.
- In Britain, London has become the largest geographic network (surpassing Toronto), now with over 880,000 users, representing about 10% of the city’s population.
- Facebook’s Australian population grew by 80% in June alone, while MySpace Australia grew 10%.
However, one glaring omission is inhibiting Facebook’s growth elsewhere: it’s only available in English. Only 50,000 Germans use Facebook (about 0.06% of a country of 80 million), and Asian numbers are nowhere to be seen. As a result, dozens of regionally-tailored knock-offs have sprung up in countries like China and Turkey in an attempt to beat Facebook to the punch.
But Facebook will be launching their first major localization initiative soon:
Zuckerberg: We haven’t translated the site yet, but that’s something we’re working on and it should be done soon. What we’re doing is pretty broadly applicable to people in all different age groups and demographics and places around the world.
Facebook will likely make their first push across western Europe (perhaps releasing Facebook translations in German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese), though the cultural divide that Zuckerberg alludes to is much bigger across the Pacific. More specifics soon.
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August 7th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
You should not transfer numbers of network joined to users from a country.
August 14th, 2007 at 10:03 am
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August 14th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Yeah Nicole is right. Some people are in no network, some only in Uni or work networks, but no regional network. For example I am German but I’m in the London network because most of my facebook friends are there.
August 29th, 2007 at 11:52 am
StudiVZ.net has millions of users in Germany. Will facebook be able to easily break the hold they have on that country? or is this war?
p.s. studivz.net also has sites in poland, italy, spain, and france
August 31st, 2007 at 1:29 am
Please release a version in Italian so I can use it with students!
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:46 pm
“englishless” people will never try (or will try and leave immediately later) a service that don’t provide a localized interface.
I’ve many friends they don’t want to join FB because of that.
Meanwhile, same friends have found other places where they can find a localized environment (Orkut, Hyves, HI5, etc.).
When FB will move to a localized interface, these people will be already got used to another environment and hardly will move to something they have previously disliked.
So, localization will come soon (maybe: soon is a so generic word), will help and will add more users, but is already late for many other users, I guess
Many users don’t understand the difference between FB and any other Social Networking Service. They need to use FB to see the difference: is not enough to explain them why FB is better than others.
I know my next job will be to convince my friends to move back to FB
FaceBook, hurry up!
P.S.: sorry for my english: is bad, but enough good to not be afraid of FB
November 10th, 2007 at 9:08 pm
We, the people from Turkey, want Turkish Language support in Facebook. There are about 1,000,000 Facebook users in Turkey. We established a cause in Causes Application about that. Currently, 125,000 people supported our cause.:
http://apps.facebook.com/causes/view_cause/21981
November 12th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
we want Turkish Language support in Facebook..
November 13th, 2007 at 1:43 am
facebook = turkey = turkish ok??
November 13th, 2007 at 1:43 am
We, the people from Turkey, want Turkish Language support in Facebook. There are about 1,000,000 Facebook users in Turkey. We established a cause in Causes Application about that. Currently, 125,000 people supported our cause.
facebook = turkey = turkish ok??
November 13th, 2007 at 3:25 am
A Hungarian version would be welcome. There’s no localised international social networking sites available right now, so I think it’d be a good investment attracting quite a lot of people.
(There’s a Hungarian-only site, but its development has stalled long ago, its HR is clearly unmotivated and detached from the web2 world, and it’s slooooow as hell. (Do I hear “Java technology” from the background? lol))
November 13th, 2007 at 3:42 am
We, the people from Turkey, want Turkish Language support in Facebook. There are about 1,000,000 Facebook users in Turkey. We established a cause in Causes Application about that. Currently, 125,000 people supported our cause.
facebook = turkey = turkish ok??
November 13th, 2007 at 11:51 am
kesinlikle türkçe eklenmesin facebook a yoksa orayıda krolar basıcak
November 13th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
we want Turkish Language Turks loves this site pls support us
November 13th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
facebook a dil seçeneği eklenmeli
November 14th, 2007 at 5:34 am
We, the people from Turkey, want Turkish Language support in Facebook. There are about 1,000,000 Facebook users in Turkey. We established a cause in Causes Application about that. Currently, 125,000 people supported our cause.
facebook+turkish = turkey
November 14th, 2007 at 9:43 am
I want to see Turkish Language in my facebook menu.
November 15th, 2007 at 12:03 am
turkish face book istiyoruz. understand ?
November 15th, 2007 at 2:56 am
kesinlikle dil secenegi eklenmeli türkisch und deutsch
November 15th, 2007 at 4:01 am
türkçe dil seçeneğinin de eklenmesini istiyoruz. çünkü ingelizce bilmiyenler için çok zor oluyo
November 15th, 2007 at 11:28 am
WE WANT TURKISH LANGUAGE SUPPORT İN FACEBOKK BECAUSE 1000000 TURKİSH PEOPLE USE THE FACEBOOK THIS WISH İS OUR JUSTINE,THANK YOU.
November 15th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
http://turkcefacebook.blogspot.com/
November 16th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
kesinlikle dil secenegi eklenmeli türkisch und deutschturkish face book istiyoruz. understand ?
facebook a dil seçeneği eklenmeli
November 16th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
Almost all Turkish people want Turkish language support in facebook. Turkish Members: 1,044,430 people and this only for now… If you translate facebook in Turkish then this number will rise up quickly! Absolutely!!
November 17th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5975423301
November 18th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
türkiş lenguiç istiyoruz kardeşimmmmm
November 19th, 2007 at 8:55 am
http://www.facebook.com and http://www.facebook.com.tr turkish language please..
November 19th, 2007 at 8:57 am
Bende facebook’a Türkçe seçeneğinin eklenmesini isteyenlerdenım.. Bizim dilimiz TÜRKÇE..
VE BURDA MİLYONLARCA TÜRK VAR…
Bu Hak Sunulmalı..
November 19th, 2007 at 11:27 am
We, the people from Turkey, want Turkish Language support in Facebook. There are about 1,000,000 Facebook users in Turkey. We established a cause in Causes Application about that. Currently, 125,000 people supported our cause.
November 22nd, 2007 at 9:39 am
Ben gevurlaşmadan, burasının türkçeleşmesini şiddetle istiyorum.
Nerde bu devlet, nerde bu hükümet :))
November 24th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Türkçeyi güzel kullanmak gerekir ismail… şiddetle yerine ısrarla demelisiniz… Bence ingilizce kalmalı.. 1000000 mılyon kişi facebook kullanıyor olsada… düzeyli dostluklar için bu ingilizce de ısrarlıyım…
November 24th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
TÜRKÇEYİ GÜZEL KULLANMAK ADINA.. SON YILLARDA KENDİ DİLİMİZİ UNUTUR OLDUK. ÖLESİNE ÇOK YABANCI TERİMLERLE YAŞIYORUZ Kİ.. SAYIN TAŞKIRAN İLK ÖRNEGİ SİZLE VEREYİM.(ŞİDDETLEİSTİYORUM) YERİNE ISRARLA EDIYORUM .. DEMELIYDİNİZ …BENCE 100.000. KİŞİ FACEBOOK KULLANSADA DÜZEYLİ DOSTLUKLAR İÇİN .. İNGİLİZCE DE KALMALI..
November 29th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
please dont translate facebook into turkish, it will be abused wildly and most people will move elsewhere. although it is a natural right to ask one’s language to be applicable in facebook, being in english only definitely deters so many cro-magnons to disturb homo-sapiens’.
December 3rd, 2007 at 7:19 am
nedirbu yabancı dil merakı anlamıyorum tabiki türküz ve türkçe isteriz
December 6th, 2007 at 1:19 am
We, the people from Turkey, want Turkish Language support in Facebook. There are about 1,000,000 Facebook users in Turkey. We established a cause in Causes Application about that. Currently, 125,000 people supported our cause.
Facebook = Turkish people = Turkish language..
Do you understand me?
Thanks..
December 18th, 2007 at 9:20 am
Turkish is 5. biggest language in Facebook community. But there is no support for Turkish. You must add this support
December 20th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
Facebook a kesinlikle TÜRKÇE eklenmelidir.Lütfen Dünya sıralamasına bakınız.bekliyoruz.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:55 am
We want Turkish Language support in Facebook.
January 5th, 2008 at 8:07 am
Facebook a kesinlikle TÜRKÇE eklenmelidir.Lütfen Dünya sıralamasına bakınız.bekliyoruz.
January 6th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
I LovE y0u Turkish
January 6th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
abi alternatifi yoq ki kesinlikle eklenmeliiiiiiiiii.buraa yazılanlar dıkkate alınır ins
January 17th, 2008 at 9:58 am
facebook türkish be.
February 1st, 2008 at 2:20 am
ben ş.urfadan necmi arkadaşlarımı bulmak istiyorum
March 10th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
wanna facebook in turkish? try that: facebook.com.tr
Facebook yerine türkçe bir sosyal ağ tavsiye ederim arkadaşlar : facebook.com.tr