3 Important Facebook Updates Coming Soon
Here’s a quick look at some important Facebook updates that are expected to launch in 1Q 08:
1) Friend Lists Privacy Controls
A few weeks ago, Facebook took the first step toward enabling more efficient friend management with the release of Friend Lists. However, as was noted at the time, the killer feature of Friend Lists — Privacy Controls — was nowhere to be found. The good news is Facebook is working on this, and will allow users to control visibility for their profile, photos, and apps using Friend Lists soon.
2) Facebook in New Languages
It has been known for a while that Facebook is working on translating the site into a few new key languages. However, beyond this initial step, Facebook is planning an aggressive “crowdsourcing” approach to translate the site into dozens (if not hundreds) of languages around the world by harnessing the collective volunteer power of its user base. Soon, Facebook will launch a “Translations” app (which we saw briefly a couple weeks ago) whereby users can enter translations for every Facebook menu, button, and copy item. (To all Facebook users in Turkey: Facebook will be available in Turkish soon!!)
3) Blasting Messages to Groups With More Than 1,000 Members
Facebook marketers have been banging their head on the wall for a long time because of Facebook’s cap on the size of groups you’re allowed to blast messages to. This has caused many to migrate their group members to Pages, or even other websites, in order to enjoy more robust group communication tools. However, Facebook will soon be removing this ceiling, meaning Groups will become a more viable option for many grassroots marketers and large communities.
January 10th, 2008 at 4:31 am
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January 10th, 2008 at 4:40 am
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January 10th, 2008 at 5:30 am
Fantastic! Facebook can now mass spam you in foreign languages and there’s no escape! What a leviathan. Thank goodness that there are still intimate, well managed communities on the ‘net like http://www.b4uparty.com
January 10th, 2008 at 7:40 am
Definitely excited to see these features launched. the Facebook in new languages sounds the most exciting. It’ll definitely increase their reach and allow for some potentially fun cross-cultural interactions.
January 10th, 2008 at 8:17 am
Thanks for this, but what is your source?
It’s critical to mention where you get this information, the context is critical.
January 10th, 2008 at 8:17 am
There should be tools to convert Groups into Pages. Groups are around much longer and it’s hard to make users switch over from a Group to a Page if you would like to use the Page tools. Or they should add tools only available to Pages right now, to Groups.
January 10th, 2008 at 9:59 am
The third feature, removing the group size cap for messages, has been officially reported by Facebook, as has their translation app.
The privacy controls seem a natural extension of the friend lists, but I’d like to find out your source if possible.
Thanks,
Josh
http://socialmarketingstrategy.blogspot.com/
January 10th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Thanks to Jeremiah for the emphasis on sourcing stories.
(Me, I keep hoping Facebook adds a global way to describe your friending policy… those of us who had criteria such as “people I’ve actually met” had no way of conveying that to people we’ve met online, which is why I gave up on Facebook last year.)
January 10th, 2008 at 10:47 am
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January 10th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Interesting, if through.
I thought they where serious about going for the global markets. In case of Germany for example, not only is there a major player already in place and set (already doubtful if they will get the users beyong a small margin), but having translation done by volunteers instead of going at least for the major markets by themselves seems stupid to me.
Using this for adaption for languages too small to fall into the adaption from facebook? That I believe at once and would make a lot of sense.
But for the major countries, I do not believe that.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:56 am
*narf* true not through.
btw friends list – critized by some as being a waste of time – prove to be useful in the surrounding of languages and location.
I want to use them for separating “understands german only / english” and geo “is in Europe so can use this invite” / “is in the US” / “worldwide”.
Want as in once there is an easier way to manage that list. ;)
January 10th, 2008 at 11:12 am
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January 10th, 2008 at 11:56 am
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January 10th, 2008 at 11:56 am
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January 10th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
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January 10th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
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January 10th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
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January 10th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
To those calling for sources check the “What’s New” page within Facebook. All three have been listed there as “In the works” for a good while now. I’d say that is official…
January 10th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
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January 10th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
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January 10th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Dear Marc and Facebook, if you need some money to buy professionnal translation for Facebook, I’m going to create a group to gather some money so your users won’t make fun of you. No don’t thanks me, I’m happy to be a volunteer and make you a little bit more rich than you are.
January 10th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
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January 10th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Jeremiah and John: These have been discussed by Facebook at various points, but all are listed in the “In The Works” section of Facebook’s “What’s New” page I believe.
January 11th, 2008 at 12:39 am
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January 11th, 2008 at 2:33 am
I would be interesting to translate a part of Facebook in french. I don’t know if this place is good to announce it but a news send me to this page:)
January 11th, 2008 at 3:55 am
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January 11th, 2008 at 4:26 am
Si vous voulez traduire ce commentaire il va falloir un volontaire… Do you like this idea ?
I’d volontary translate FB in French (and more)..but as an employee.
(Note: As a bonus I would even translate this comment)
January 11th, 2008 at 4:26 am
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January 11th, 2008 at 5:17 am
Justin
Thanks for the response, I enjoy you blog, it’s key.
Please provide a link to your source, it’s really important that we maintain a level of transparency with sources with topics as important as these.
January 12th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
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January 13th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
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January 13th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
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January 14th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
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January 15th, 2008 at 2:41 am
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January 23rd, 2008 at 2:07 pm
[...] As reported previously, Facebook is launching a major initiative to translate the site into many languages using a “crowd-sourced” approach. Facebook’s Translation application allows users to translate every word on the Facebook site into a destination language. [...]
February 2nd, 2008 at 8:23 am
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August 2nd, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Thank you
August 8th, 2008 at 12:47 am
Facebook just keeps getting better and better.
February 16th, 2009 at 10:57 am
I would be interesting to translate a part of Facebook in french. I don’t know if this place is good to announce it but a news send me to this page:)
February 16th, 2009 at 10:59 am
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February 16th, 2009 at 11:01 am
el facebook es la raja se los recomiendo a todo los que hablen spanish
August 23rd, 2009 at 8:23 am
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May 14th, 2010 at 3:28 pm
Question,
How come my husband when he is on facebook he can move his mouse over a photo of someone that is not his friend and it shows a photo and askes him if he would like to add this person to his friends list…mine on the same computer dose not do this is there a reason why this is?
Thank you
Shannon
April 4th, 2012 at 6:17 am
[...] friends into groups and send messages to specific recipients, but offered no privacy settings. But Inside Facebook says users soon will be able to control visibility for their profiles, including photos and apps [...]